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PSA: The Tuesday my old bank job sent me to a 'team building' escape room and I accidentally found my new career
So I bailed on my teller gig at a credit union in Boise about 14 months back, and the weirdest part is what finally pushed me out. My branch manager booked this escape room downtown for a 'morale day,' and I got paired with the one guy who actually knew how to rewire the fake circuit board in the last puzzle. I watched him for maybe 8 minutes and something just clicked in my head, like wait, people get paid to do this all day? He ran a tiny shop fixing restaurant POS systems and told me he started with a $60 soldering iron and some YouTube vids. Two days later I signed up for a community college class at $340 and started bugging every small business owner I knew. Fast forward to now and I do tech repairs for food trucks and nail salons around town, and I make about $200 more a week than I did counting other people's cash. The funny part is my old manager still texts me asking if I want to come back for the holiday rush. Has anyone else had a random work event accidentally show them their next move?
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singh.wren8d ago
Ha, that escape room circuit board story is wild because my sister had the total opposite happen at her old office. They did one of those personality test workshops and it basically told her she was in the wrong field, so she quit her insurance job three weeks later to do dog grooming. Sometimes those dumb work events actually knock something loose in your head, even if it takes a minute to see it.
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