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Posted on 1/31/19 at 2:12 pm to Dawgholio
Become a plant baw
Posted on 1/31/19 at 2:44 pm to Dawgholio
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I have 22 years in my industry and 7 years in sales. I could easily work for one of my customers but I’d have to move. I’m in animal nutrition and pet food
If you're willing to start over basically and learn from the beginning, IT has a much higher starting salary than any other segment of the business operation. "Learn to code" is a saying right now, but its free to download a compiler and relatively cheap to buy a license from one of the online tutorial sites (pluralsight, udemy, edx, etc. . . ) and start learning.
You can find companies easily enough that don't particularly care if you have a degree in IT as long as you know how to do some coding.
TLDR: Learn to code.
Posted on 1/31/19 at 2:48 pm to Dawgholio
Have you looked into learning how to code? 
Posted on 1/31/19 at 3:19 pm to Dawgholio
Suck it up. Max out your 401k. Invest what is left over. This is crazy talk.
Posted on 1/31/19 at 3:22 pm to Dawgholio
Bangbros is hiring.
Posted on 1/31/19 at 3:24 pm to Dawgholio
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I have 22 years in my industry and 7 years in sales. I could easily work for one of my customers but I’d have to move. I’m in animal nutrition and pet food
Move to Nashville (Franklin actually) and get a desk job at Mars.
Posted on 1/31/19 at 3:34 pm to Dawgholio
I left banking to become a construction estimator.
Posted on 1/31/19 at 3:42 pm to Dawgholio
Could you stay in sales and go into an industry that is more local?
Posted on 1/31/19 at 4:05 pm to Dawgholio
Ive changed careers several times. I mean drastic change.
Posted on 1/31/19 at 4:06 pm to LoveThatMoney
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Could you stay in sales and go into an industry that is more local?
If he has 7 years sales experience and he's good at it, that shouldn't be an issue at all.
Posted on 1/31/19 at 4:15 pm to Dawgholio
quote:At least you have a decent option. You ex might would have sign off on the moving.
I could easily work for one of my customers but I’d have to move.
Posted on 1/31/19 at 4:29 pm to AnonymousTiger
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Move to Nashville (Franklin actually) and get a desk job at Mars.
I’m already here and that’d cut my salary by 70%
Posted on 1/31/19 at 4:34 pm to Dawgholio
I do commercial insurance, and while I have to travel often because I've niched, lots of guys have a fairly local customer base. At least the type of travel that doesn't always require overnights.
Posted on 1/31/19 at 4:37 pm to Dawgholio
I've had three major career changes.
I graduated in the medical field and worked in a hospital for 2 years. Stayed in the med/health field for 4 more years doing corporate fitness and health screenings.
The money and opportunity wasn't what I needed so I took a leap of faith and went in to the tech field, working for Compaq in tech support back in the 90's. Things went great there and I worked my way up to managing a software test team. Then we merged with HP and massive layoffs hit me and all of my division.
I jumped careers in to the oil and gas world. I started as a project scheduler running Primavera. That was 11 years ago. I'm now the master scheduling manager for our division.
My resume is all over the place. The message I sell is that it proves I can adapt to any new challenge. Just give me a chance.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours - Richard Bach
I graduated in the medical field and worked in a hospital for 2 years. Stayed in the med/health field for 4 more years doing corporate fitness and health screenings.
The money and opportunity wasn't what I needed so I took a leap of faith and went in to the tech field, working for Compaq in tech support back in the 90's. Things went great there and I worked my way up to managing a software test team. Then we merged with HP and massive layoffs hit me and all of my division.
I jumped careers in to the oil and gas world. I started as a project scheduler running Primavera. That was 11 years ago. I'm now the master scheduling manager for our division.
My resume is all over the place. The message I sell is that it proves I can adapt to any new challenge. Just give me a chance.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours - Richard Bach
Posted on 1/31/19 at 5:01 pm to jkylejohnson
Hear you get the "mom" and "daughter" at the same time... 
Posted on 1/31/19 at 9:36 pm to cas4t
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commercial insurance
This would be a good route if he could find someone to give him a book to work to get started. Starting from 0 with kids would be tough.
What do you specialize in that causes so much travel?
Posted on 1/31/19 at 9:41 pm to TruDawg
Mostly healthcare. You in the business?
Posted on 1/31/19 at 9:51 pm to Dawgholio
Pics of ex?
Posted on 1/31/19 at 10:47 pm to Dawgholio
You’re a travel salesman. Surely you can afford a $12k coding boot camp
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