How common are seasonal jobs vs. year-round jobs?

There are jobs with every schedule you can imagine. There may only be 2 of those jobs if your imagination is very active or there may be 19,000 if your imagination is boring. Maybe you could just win the lottery instead of working at all?

 

It depends on what you’re willing to do. But there are trucking jobs as tscottme mentioned with every conceivable schedule you could imagine. They’re just not mainstream like most companies. For example if you’re willing to go to the north pole in Alaska, you can work three weeks on three weeks off. Two weeks on two weeks off. Same thing in Texas out in the oil field. All sorts of jobs like that. But these are not normal trucking jobs. You can find seasonal trucking jobs where you drive all spring and all summer and you’re off in the winter. If you did a good job, they’ll take you back next spring. Even the more traditional companies were, you’re kind of grinding it out all over the country, if you’re a good driver and run hard will let you go a month and take a week. As long as you’re pulling the miles and loads during that month. When I was in between my second and third truck driving job, I had several companies offer me to stay out three weeks and take a week off. But they were lacking in too many other areas so I went with a different company. Point being is it’s out there, just gotta look.

 

That would be great, but I'd say there's nothing wrong with his original plan.

Young folks, start out busting ### for 2-4 years. Scrape by, save every penny possible, put 400k$ in an investment those first 2-4, spend the next 30 years investing 40k$ more a year while busting ### half the year.

Retire at 48-52 and say eff to doing it how everyone else does.

Or work and save more aggressively, and retire at 40.

 

Game Creek Video, TV Mobile Group, and other entertainment transport companies might have seasonal stuff. I do Drum Corps International in the Summer months but that's low pay.

 

If it was possible to build a good-sized nest egg only working half a year for 2 or 3 years don't you think everybody would be doing that?

Seasonal jobs are non-existent in the Permian, because the oilfield runs 24/7/365.

If you want seasonal work you'll need to look for something that is seasonal in nature, such as agriculture, snowplowing, hauling sand or salt to snowy areas in the winter time, or construction in northern states.

 

Just because few are willing to work hard enough to make it happen, doesn't make it impossible. A guy with the right mindset can stack some serious cash very quickly.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

 

We are a private fleet delivering plants that we grow. Our busy season is March - June, it slows up during the hot summer months and then gets busy again September - November. Deliveries pretty much dry up by Xmas, most drivers switch over to heating oil or propane delivery companies during the winter months, a few take lay off and collect unemployment. We keep one driver around that can weld and have him work on our delivery racks and other odd jobs during the winter.