What kind of career do you have that allows you to actually play golf?

[monty09]

On 4/24/2023 at 5:08 PM, ryder2015 said:

All the best players at my club are financial reps. They seem to play all the time.

I have a buddy that interviews his financial reps with one question " so what clubs do you belong to?"

 

lets see how serious you are about your career!!!!

[callawayjay]

My wife is an attorney, works from home. My daughter is online only for school, and I wait tables at a fancy steakhouse. 3 days a week I get to play. 

[hackeraz]

On 5/2/2023 at 9:13 PM, TexasTurf said:

It is amazing how those kids that have nothing to do with the property are treated as royalty while the guys who have been there 20+ years creating the place are treated like janitors.

Absolute truth. I always figured if I would have not pursued that turf degree I could have kept playing regularly. 😂

[FuzzyDunlop69]

Coach football in the fall, baseball in the spring, teach from August-May...I don't get to play at all during that time, but its 3-4 times a week in June and July.  Once baseball and state testing end in late April I can usually slide out for a twilight once a week.

[SteelieD]

On 4/24/2023 at 9:39 AM, mci711 said:

 

Yup. I am in sales and have as much freedom as I'd like. Hit numbers, go play golf. I am in tech/software sales. 

This ☝️ With an expense account. 

[WL_Eric]

I’m in IT (Product Management) and my team is spread throughout the world so days start very early.  Coupled with working mostly remote (no wasted time in traffic) provides opportunities to get out and play more.  Working for a company that offers flexible schedules and great vacation package helps as well.

Edited May 7, 2023 by WL_Eric

[Feelingofgreatness]

Retired a few years ago at 44yo.

Investing in income/dividend growth stocks for many years. The power of compounding is truly incredible. I play Monday to Friday, typically really early am so it doesn't kill the whole day. 

 

Most of the guys I play with are WFHers that can get off the grid for 3 to 4 hour windows of time. 

[Tru]

On 5/1/2023 at 9:25 PM, TexasTurf said:

Oh that's much better that 13 on 1 off. Hell yeah, that's awesome.

Yeah I’ve worked that schedule too. Not worth it. I work to live, not the other way around. I make sure to get up and send lil mama on her way with breakfast and coffee, then the day is mine. It’s a hard compromise with being gone so I make the most of it while I’m home. Whether it’s just hitting the range or getting in a full 18, every day has some sort of golf involved. 

[sabram]

I was a lawyer for a very large corporation for 32 years. I worked very long hours (often 60-70 hrs per week) and had to travel fairly often. When I was younger, I could only play golf on weekends and on one buddies' golf trip each year. However, after 20 years at that job my kids were grown and I had 35 days of PTO each year (effectively seven weeks per year). That allowed me to take a lot of golf trips. In addition, on business trips I would often stay over in the city I was visiting a day before and/or a day after the business trip and take the extra days as PTO to play golf with work colleagues. I got to play a ,lot of great golf across the US and Canada without having to pay the airfare. I just had to pay for the extra days' hotel and rental car.

[Krnparpi]

Law enforcement. I have a wonky schedule that allows me to play on some weekdays while the fiancé is at work 👌🏻

[dugue4]

On 5/5/2023 at 8:35 PM, FuzzyDunlop69 said:

Coach football in the fall, baseball in the spring, teach from August-May...I don't get to play at all during that time, but its 3-4 times a week in June and July.  Once baseball and state testing end in late April I can usually slide out for a twilight once a week.

Same situation here, except I'm Cross/baseball.  What school are you at? PM if you dont want to post

Edited May 15, 2023 by dugue4

[TNwanabe]

Retired. Play as much as I want whenever I want. It's fabulous. Worked hard to get here. You all will get here someday too. Keep grinding. 

[monty09]

sales.   I do about 20-30 job trips a year with work

[1puttTUT]

I'm in automotive, specifically powertrain calibration. Lots of time outside of the office, collecting data in a test car, making changes, and repeating. Also lots of travel for the same activity. Deliverables are usually every 3-4 months without anyone really bothering you in between. Once you get good at it, it doesn't take as much time each day and it's easy to get golf in, or just catch up on your work over the weekend. 

 

My company also has summer hours, so I have a standing Friday noon tee time all summer.

[ChipNRun]

@TexasTurf, sounds like you have gotten snared by bunch of good-ole-boy workaholics that can't manage their time very well.

 

In my case, I had a couple of careers that allowed some time to play golf - newspaper and higher ed. When I worked for a newspaper, my shift was 6:30 am - 3 :30 pm, or 3 PM to midnight. I couldn't play every day, but I could get in 18 holes twice a week, and maybe a nine here or there too.

 

The second was as a college professor. I would have crazy hours. I would have meetings in mornings on Monday and Wednesday, and then teach at night. Factory workers would call this split shift. I had to put time aside in between to prepare lessons, grade papers, prep reports and do research. The month of May was pretty well shot because of final grades and graduation, but other than that I could work in some golf here and there. (Note: Saturdays were iffy for golf because I had to go to special events, student recruiting days, etc.)

 

Some weeks when I logged 60 hours at work, I got in zero golf. Other weeks with some slack, might get in two rounds. And summers were mainly project work, so I could get in a couple of rounds a week.

[rhinosparky]

On 4/24/2023 at 7:23 AM, Abh159 said:

I know a lot of people, and those people have a lot of different occupations.

 

Not a single one of them works 4 am - 7 pm, seven days a week, 365 days a year....

I grew up with my Dad on a dairy farm.  We golfed about 2 times a week.  It was easily 4am - 10pm 365 days a week.

It taught me to find a more reasonable job that had weekends that's for sure.  But the skills and work ethic i learned have been invaluable. 

I became an electrician and now have morphed into an electrical contractor.  I have a business partner and we have most of our crews working 4-10's.  We rotate every other week with each of us taking every other friday.  So basically I get a three day weekend every other week.  I have an amazing wife who never gives me an issue with playing every off day I can.  I played 88 rounds last year with our course being closed for 2.5 months because of snow.

Edited January 4 by rhinosparky
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