So, as many of you know, I work in luxury retail as a sales associate. I do enjoy my job, and enjoy helping you guys out. Because I have a young, eccentric look and am very polite and easy going I have done very well at my current job, and previous companies I have worked for. It doesn't take long for my clients to figure out that I am well educated (MBA), lead a life style above what my current job could pay me and that I could be doing so much more with my life. (Their words not mine).
Once they start asking about past careers I tell them I took a job in luxury retail to get myself thru grad school, and just sorta stuck with it after I graduated. Previously I was a data analyst and worked for a private high school doing office work. They figure out correctly that when I was young working in the IT sector I did make substantially more money and saved a lot of it, allowing me to lead a good lifestyle. They also figure out that I am a people person and was miserable in that field.
So, twice a week I am offered some sort of job, usually I politely decline as it is always a job selling some other product that I am not enthusiastic about, or a field I wouldn't think would be fun. A few weeks ago a client started to woo me with talk of hiring me at a director level for an educational experience camp working with teens. I really enjoyed working with that group when I worked at the private high school, I would be adding value to my life, and helping others out as well. The job will pay me more money than I currently make, which would take the pressure off of me spending out of my personal savings every month to lead my lifestyle. It would have me traveling 6+ weeks in the summer to great locations in the US and Europe. The downside, I have to relocate. I would be moving away from all family and friends in the southwest, to a new life in Chicago. While there is a lot of culture in that city, I wouldn't be driving distance or cheap flight distance from family and friends. Do I really want to turn 30 this year with a new life in a new city?
Any thoughts? Is it time to grow up and get a real job?
Once they start asking about past careers I tell them I took a job in luxury retail to get myself thru grad school, and just sorta stuck with it after I graduated. Previously I was a data analyst and worked for a private high school doing office work. They figure out correctly that when I was young working in the IT sector I did make substantially more money and saved a lot of it, allowing me to lead a good lifestyle. They also figure out that I am a people person and was miserable in that field.
So, twice a week I am offered some sort of job, usually I politely decline as it is always a job selling some other product that I am not enthusiastic about, or a field I wouldn't think would be fun. A few weeks ago a client started to woo me with talk of hiring me at a director level for an educational experience camp working with teens. I really enjoyed working with that group when I worked at the private high school, I would be adding value to my life, and helping others out as well. The job will pay me more money than I currently make, which would take the pressure off of me spending out of my personal savings every month to lead my lifestyle. It would have me traveling 6+ weeks in the summer to great locations in the US and Europe. The downside, I have to relocate. I would be moving away from all family and friends in the southwest, to a new life in Chicago. While there is a lot of culture in that city, I wouldn't be driving distance or cheap flight distance from family and friends. Do I really want to turn 30 this year with a new life in a new city?
Any thoughts? Is it time to grow up and get a real job?
