scumglob

I am curious about what kinds of professions the more grown up touring cyclists have. Summers off in academia seems like a bonus. Or the drug baron with big sacks of money. Just wondering...

Roughstuff

Academia and self employed. I have been a gypsy scholar since 1991 and every time i get an itch to move I relocate, find a small college nearby needing adjuncts, and before ya know it i am back earning enough to survive and bank a small amount each year. I also am a stock trader for my own (modest) portfolio, and augment my income with options, dividends, occasionally capital gains (too occasional ),
and day trading.

Not quite a nomad, but the better half of both independence and employment.

roughstuff

jaypee

I work IT for a state university and have enough seniority that I can bank vacation into respectable chunks to take long trips with.

Machka 

I'm a middle-aged student ... I'm just wrapping up the 3rd year of my Bachelor of Education, and I support myself with part-time and temporary employment. Gotta love the temp world!!

Prior to returning to University I was an Engineering Technologist, and I was employed doing that for about 8 years ... that background helps with my temporary employment opportunities.

And the great thing about touring is that it doesn't have to cost a lot. A basic tour where you cycle from your door step up the road and back for a week or so might only cost you a couple hundred dollars.

Gordon P

Roughstuff weren’t you recently located in Alberta?

Me I am a student, humanitarian aid/social worker, bum, self-employed at times and unemployed at others! Do debt, no kids, no wife, no addictions, no material possessions, no car, no house, no investments, no pension, no hope of a cushy retirement - so I have to cycle for transportation, pleasure and for holidays!

valygrl

Contract Database Programmer/Data Analyst, self employed. The last 12 months I haven't been able to get out for more than a week at a time, too much work, I'm trying to change that.

quester

Academia, w/ a sabbatical coming up :-).

Speedo

I'm a professional rock musician. Touring is great when you have groupies all over the country to stay with!

Speedo

scumglob

Gunna tour that sabbatical?? Did you get permission from the committee??

Speedo

Oh, sorry, that's my dream life...

Robert_in_ca

I haven't been on a tour yet, but I'm a bike mechanic, and I'm hoping that when I do tour I might be able to get part time work by building new-half assembled bikes for piece work at bike shops along the way.

scumglob

No kidding...

antokelly

nah im not telling somebody might be listening

staehpj1

IT at a major research lab.

joejoe

oh thats easy. all you have to do is smoke more pot.

nancy sv

I'm a teacher, but I'm hoping I've only another 45 days in the classroom. After 21 years, I think I'm ready to explore other options. I'll take the next 2 1/2 years to ride from Alaska to Argentina and then think about what I want to do when I grow up.

vik 

Self-employed. That lets me trade time for money when I need to get away.

zonatandem

Retired for the past 14 years. Yup, headed for Utah this summer.

acantor

Self-employed, doing writing, training, assessments, and development related to technologies for people with disabilities. As a consultant, my time is somewhat flexible, although projects tend to come in clumps. The office politics in my one-person operation are fantastic!

mev

Software engineer by training and a manager of software engineers for past 15 years.

I've been fortunate enough to take longer trips off using a combination of:
(1) leave of absence breaks from work (giving lots of notice and working with my bosses)
(2) working for one company for a while and earning longer vacation times (for US, not compared
to European vacation times)
(3) working hard enough to be valuable to my company that they'll
keep a space for me when I return from those LOAs and vacations.

gcottay

IT Director.

Vacation time never long enough. Long enough = present ration plus a month or two.

raybo

Retired in 2000. Before that, a self-employed professional speaker.

Ray

jibi

vagabond

Lambkin55

Dentist --- But I never bought into the private practice deal.

I've worked in a university/State employment setting which gives me 4 weeks in the summer, 1 week in the spring and 4 weeks in the winter to ride.

Next month I get on the train with my bike and go to Missouri to do part of the KATY trail and some of Illinois North of St. Louis.

joejoe

yah, that would be pretty expensive too.

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