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Making Money on the Road, My New Job?
boeboe
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Well, I'm looking at a shift in my carreer, basically the same thing I do now but a bit different. I have an opportunity to become a contract Quality Assurance Auditor with a subsidiary of SAE, doing Nondestructive Testing audits for shops that supply prime defense contractors with outside production parts. I'm looking at this opportunity real hard. My current salary is 55K/Year and this new job would only pay 48K/Year BUT (big but) I would only work, on the average, three days a week. Sometimes I'd work five days a week, other times not at all, or one or two days. That would give me lots of time for family and side ventures and sounds like a job I could retire into.I would be auditing companies in the midwest, which is basically everywhere from the Great Lakes to Arizona as far as territory. I have the option of driving my car and taking my wife and family with me for short vacations when I do this.But I'm thinking of other ways to make money while on the road, or just add to my gun and coin collection, and am looking for ideas. I'm wondering about checking small town pawn shops, coin shops, gun shops and such for bargains as I travel. Shops that are off the beaten path, perhaps some farm auctions and such. I guess I'm wondering if there's enough out there to make it worth while. Or do any of you have experiences with traveling to find bargains? Or anything else you might want to toss in to help me think this through.
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