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Originally Posted by humfrz
So, covance, if you would like to share your age, education, skill set, job experience and target income, maybe we can give you some ideas.
For example, you mentioned real estate, after I retired the first time, I became a real estate broker for about 10 years. I contracted with FHLMC (Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation) to repossess and liquidate properties that they had foreclosed on.
I specialized in their more challenging properties (properties in the scary parts some towns like gang hangouts, grow operations, meth labs, chop shops and combinations of the above).
Needless to say, evicting those types of people was, shall we say, interesting. Why? Because they just aren't thinking quite straight - 
See, part of my work life experiences involved "real estate finance" - 
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Originally Posted by Jajanken86
Interesting question OP, I'm really curious why do you ask? No one really asks that question these days, much less in a car forum. But it's a really good question if you want more out of life.
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I think about this type of question pretty often, I think most of my life. I just don't like the idea of the majority of my week going towards working for someone else or even work in general. Family is a major priority for me, and as I am about to have my first kid thinking about how my time is spent in a given week is on my mind even more. I would love to maximize time with my kids while they are still young. Ofcourse I know that a good income is important for properly taking care of family.
Thought I would ask on this car forum in the off topic section because a. I like the people here and b. you get a more random and diverse set of answers that I like reading, compared to if I posted on the financialindependence sub on reddit or something like that.
humfrz, I would love to know your life story if you are willing to share. Always happy to learn from people who have more experience in life than I do. As for me: 29 years old, undergrad in Finance and Marketing, grad degrees in Finance, most of my work experience has been in finance and accounting (including 7 years at FHLMC aka Freddie Mac's biggest competitor :P). my interest has always been in entrepreneurship. I like creating things and seeing other people get value out of them. But since my goal has always been time over money, I have been pretty careful in the entrepreneurial things I have tried. It has mostly been ecommerce projects with no real ongoing success to let me leave my full time job. For a while I was looking for part-time work in accounting/finance so I could focus on entrepreneurship, but I found that the part-time work in the field was at a much lower level of pay and experience (tons of jobs for bookkeepers with a G.E.D., not much for full fledged accounting/finance analysts). I do accounting work now and for most of my working life have sat in Microsoft Excel 40++ hours a week.