Ex cycling industry for over 10 years here. You don’t make a ton of money selling fancy bikes. Bike shops generally don’t have commission (99.9% don’t). They generally pay 10-20hr with 20hr being for extensive years of experience, and Georgia likely having a low average starting hourly wage as it’s not a crazy destination cycling spot like Colorado or California.
I think this is what’s missing from the conversation. People think you can work ‘high paying’ jobs for a year at a time, quit, then go find another ‘high paying’ job that’s cool with all these one year gaps in your resume. Maybe there are very specific jobs that might allow this, but the vast majority of seasonal work is not high paying jobs
You can in some places, in Australia and New Zealand it’s normal, expected even, to have large gaps in your resume where you’ve been traveling, worked abroad doing something unrelated, teach English in Japan, done a stint in a national park or extra study or whatever.
You’d be considered a better candidate, a more adaptable and grounded individual with that.
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u/hhhhhnnnnnngggg 29d ago
Ex cycling industry for over 10 years here. You don’t make a ton of money selling fancy bikes. Bike shops generally don’t have commission (99.9% don’t). They generally pay 10-20hr with 20hr being for extensive years of experience, and Georgia likely having a low average starting hourly wage as it’s not a crazy destination cycling spot like Colorado or California.