Could be a teacher.  The pay isn't great right away but it's not terrible.  Allows for tons of fishing in the summer.

On 5/6/2017 at 0:43 PM, Lonnie Clemens said:

The advice about jobs is good.  But remember that it takes a good interest and an education to get a good job.  If you happen to like fishing and nature, you may consider a major in biology or wildlife management of some type.  There are several states that hire people too work in their national and state parks.  Have you checked out the state of Minnesota lately?  They call it the land of a thousand lakes.

 

Lonnie

 

Correction.... Land of 10,000 lakes! (by USGS survey, more than 13,000 lakes of 10 acres or more)

 

 

Correction.... Land of 10,000 lakes! (by USGS survey, more than 13,000 lakes of 10 acres or more)

 

Better not forget Wisconsin then, I believe they have even more lakes than Minnesota.

 

 

Better not forget Wisconsin then, I believe they have even more lakes than Minnesota.

 

I fished one of those Wisconsin lakes (Balsam Lake) until I was 17 - we moved to Montana in 1964 and I didn't see it again until after the millennium.

Find some job you love to do, and has meaning to you.

The government. Most government jobs now will consider allowing you to work compressed schedules (4x10s with Fri-Sun off.) or even telework. In the private sector, software development can be lucrative with good schedules.

To play devil's advocate, if fishing is a hobby for you, just focus on going to the best school you can get into and find what you want to do for a career.  If it means going to a school in the middle of Nebraska without a good fishing spot within a 4 hour drive, make the sacrifice to get a good degree in the field you like.  Nobody ever looks back and thinks "man I wish I had better fishing for those four years of my life", but they do look back and wish they applied priorities in a better way.

^^^^^ words to live by.