I've come full circle in my career. Early on I was in the hotel industry in accounting as a controller and CFO then became a General Manager. I left the property level and started my own hotel revenue management consulting company and in an effort to market my business I learned search engine optimization and built a website for my company (this is when we built sites from scratch).

 

Well, my now ex wife worked in a real estate office and one of the agents asked if I could build her a website and get her to the top of the search engine rankings. This was when I was in Hilton Head, SC and real estate was huge money and there was a ton of competition and her site dominated the rankings and she made lots of coin. Soon I had real estate agents from around the country contacting me and I dumped the hotel consulting business. It got to the point where I could pick and choose my clients and demand my price. That was great for about 8 years until the real estate market crashed.

 

But in the meantime I had partnered with a real estate media company part time because they paid me a lot and paid all of my benefits. So when the real estate market crashed I still drew a salary and didn't have to hustle as much of my own business. Working with them I decided we needed an app and needed to shift the company to digital publishing. They balked, went broke, and had to sell the company. In the meantime my app business was taking off.

 

In the meantime, a buddy of mine had me invest in his stormwater business and I got involved in that for a while. My apps were destination & travel apps and that segment started to die when phone voice assistants took over. So I got back into hotels again, COVID hit, lost my job, but then got back into hotels as a General Manager again.

 

This is out back of my hotel. Can anyone guess why I took the job at this hotel?

Started my career working in a paper mill.  Then went into landscape management and started my own Landscape /low voltage wiring troubleshooting and repair biz. 

 

Retired last August.  Now working my aching bones to the max getting my house upgraded for sale.  Hoping to get a bit of spare change out of the crazy market.

I work in a professional field. In the a smaller, dirtier part of the city where there are no fields. Last place in the world you should be bass fishing. But we are surrounded by saltwater that produces a lot of fish. It’s a little more suburban where I live so there are a few puddles to fish in. If you were the above average American freshwater bass fisherman that visits this website and lived in the area where I live, you’d have turned out much, much worse. Just from being around the people here. I lived every summer in Ohio when I was growing up, with almost relatives that worked in the USAF as an officer and civilian employee. Over the years, I spent time in around half of the US states in the Midwest and Northeast and as far down as Oklahoma.

13 hours ago, Koz said:

I've come full circle in my career. Early on I was in the hotel industry in accounting as a controller and CFO then became a General Manager. I left the property level and started my own hotel revenue management consulting company and in an effort to market my business I learned search engine optimization and built a website for my company (this is when we built sites from scratch).

 

Well, my now ex wife worked in a real estate office and one of the agents asked if I could build her a website and get her to the top of the search engine rankings. This was when I was in Hilton Head, SC and real estate was huge money and there was a ton of competition and her site dominated the rankings and she made lots of coin. Soon I had real estate agents from around the country contacting me and I dumped the hotel consulting business. It got to the point where I could pick and choose my clients and demand my price. That was great for about 8 years until the real estate market crashed.

 

But in the meantime I had partnered with a real estate media company part time because they paid me a lot and paid all of my benefits. So when the real estate market crashed I still drew a salary and didn't have to hustle as much of my own business. Working with them I decided we needed an app and needed to shift the company to digital publishing. They balked, went broke, and had to sell the company. In the meantime my app business was taking off.

 

In the meantime, a buddy of mine had me invest in his stormwater business and I got involved in that for a while. My apps were destination & travel apps and that segment started to die when phone voice assistants took over. So I got back into hotels again, COVID hit, lost my job, but then got back into hotels as a General Manager again.

 

This is out back of my hotel. Can anyone guess why I took the job at this hotel?

Thats a gorgeous view! It sounds like you dont necessarily have to work but you still do and what a place to work at!

I manage both the business and staff of a monthly outdoor magazine for a state wildlife and parks agency. My job title is "publisher" but that's a fancy way to say I know a little about every aspect of the operations but not an expert in any of them.

I work for the state gaming commission and I deal with the security of the slot machines at casinos in the state.

VMware solutions full stack architect specializing in HCI solutions.

Love VMware. 

6 hours ago, Luke Barnes said:

Thats a gorgeous view! It sounds like you dont necessarily have to work but you still do and what a place to work at!

I have a few rods in my office and today at the end of the day I went out there for 20 minutes to fish. Caught a dink bass and made one of our young guests happy when I let him release it.

5 hours ago, Koz said:

I have a few rods in my office and today at the end of the day I went out there for 20 minutes to fish. Caught a dink bass and made one of our young guests happy when I let him release it.

That's amazing! If me and the wife need a getaway I know where to go!

15 hours ago, HenryPF said:

VMware solutions full stack architect specializing in HCI solutions.

I tried Google Translator and got nothing...

1 hour ago, BigAngus752 said:

I tried Google Translator and got nothing...

Don't worry about it, we put it in the cloud...

3 hours ago, J Francho said:

Don't worry about it, we put it in the cloud...

Put what in the cloud??

1 hour ago, Luke Barnes said:

Put what in the cloud??

Don't worry about it.  It's safe, it's in the cloud.

1 hour ago, J Francho said:

Don't worry about it.  It's safe, it's in the cloud.

 

That meme is funny.  I saved it to the cloud for later.

Did you back it up to a different cloud?

Zip Drive, bro.

 

I hadn't thought about them in a long, long time. When I was in school we used Jaz drives, which was like playing Russian roulette with your project files.

Two words: punch cards.  I'm that old.

13 minutes ago, J Francho said:

Two words: punch cards.  I'm that old.

Great until some nit-noy does a 'floor sort'.

 

18 minutes ago, J Francho said:

Zip Drive, bro.

External drives with sync and 100GB Blu-Rays for permanent stuff.

 

I don't trust the Cloud - as said in the Meme - it's someone else's computer.

I still remember the old floppy discs that were actually floppy and took four discs to play a basic game.

2 hours ago, J Francho said:

Don't worry about it.  It's safe, it's in the cloud.

Is this like a cumolonimbus cloud? 

Just now, Luke Barnes said:

I still remember the old floppy discs that were actually floppy and took four discs to play a basic game.

Punch Cards

Paper Tape

Cassette Recorder

 

All the ways I saved programs before floppies became prevalent.

 

<- Computer literate since 1972

42 minutes ago, MN Fisher said:

I don't trust the Cloud - as said in the Meme - it's someone else's computer.

That used to be true but not any longer.  The Amazon cloud run on Microsoft’s cloud,  Microsoft’s cloud runs on Google’s cloud and Google cloud runs on Amazon’s cloud.  There are no more computers.  Just clouds. ?

Trophy Husband.

So I guess you could say I am in the service industry.