I reckon my new gig is pretty hard to beat. "Shore Water Sports" is a SUP & Kayak hire service operating off the beach at Shorehaven Waterfront Park with the Wreck of the Alkimos clearly visible just 500M off the landscaped beach. Bewdiful!
Job Profile:
1) thoroughly test the rescue boat before opening everyday - checking the cray & occy pots is a good way to do that.
2) Run tours out and around the wreck till the wind comes up. End of SUPing & Kayaking for the day. Knock off time.
And there I am - right on the beach with all my toys free to use the wind from start-up to end.
(in between running lessons of course)
How Does Your Job Shape Up? Ha ha - go on youre allowed to drool
Very nice puppetonastring!!!
I work from home as a consulting engineer.
Home is 1.8km from Floreat beach.
Flexible hours involves going for a kitesurf when the wind gets up
There is no such thing as enjoyable work. Otherwise it wouldn't be called work, they wouldn't need to pay you. It'd be called a hobbie.
Every job I've ever done Id rather be at the beach.
Whilst it is true that there is no perfect job sounds like you found a good one, me a tradie electrican it is a ok trade off for money vs time but im on the lookout for other ways to spend less time working more time doing fun stuff as they say cant replace time
Just tallied up my hours spent testing Ozone kites for December 34.5 hrs on the water, around the beaches of Lennox and Byron.
Well my last job was convenient as Fark. The boss was 3000km away. I could have my lunch hour whenever I wanted, the office was 2mind from the beach. I even needed to regularly visit customers down the coast right next to world class kite wave location. I usually kited several days during the week.
The money was good plus they funded me to provide a vehicle. That vehicle just happened to be a 4wd Ute so I could get even more access to kiting.
All and all at first site a glorious job to facilitate a kiting addiction.
But. The corporate bull**** slowly beat me down and was killing me from the inside out. I held on to that job for 4 years longer than what I should have because of the convenience.
Enter the new job. No company car, 45mins from the beach minimal chance of mid week kiting in the winter, less money.
But. It's not killing me, and I enjoy the work. I'm working at an innovative engineering workshop which do some funky innovative design. I'm getting involved in engineering design, proto typing and build. That is interesting as hell to me.
So..... Life is not all about kiting, there are other things to interest that brain too. The perfect job may not need to be kite related at all.