Best careers for ex-runners

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The only thing I can think of, especially because of #4 is...

Pharmaceutical Sales

but you probably won't set your own hours or be that independent. And you'll have to kiss a lot of doctor ass.

I doubt he'd get a position in pharmaceutical sales with a liberal arts BA. They're usually looking for at minimum a BS in chemistry or something similar, with a preference for MS or Ph.D. I will agree, though, that sales seems to be the only career path that fits the criteria. I'm just curious - how attached are you to fulfilling #4? It's a great goal, but your timeline is a bit short for achieving it.

Quite attached to #4...I see it as the only reason to not go into something less lucrative, like teaching, or continuing to try and hack it as an athlete, go to grad school, pursue a second, better-positioned undergrad degree, or the other options. In a way I am looking for a shortcut, but not essentially, because I want something where I can exchange a tremendous work(aholic?) ethic for a higher income than in the areas I am qualified for.

Read The 4-Hour Work Week.

Insurance agent.

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Outside sales is great. Out and about, flexible hours, good $.

Unfortunately your stereotypical distance runner (introvert, people-phobic)is not really the type.

Yeaaahh....I'm gonna have to go ahead and disagree with you on that one.

One of my relatives (female) has a general business degree from a small school and makes close to $90,000 a year taking doctors out to dinner and kissing ass (maybe in more than one way). At any rate, she is far from a chemist and she is doing just fine.

Hard Work===not necessary equals financial success in America these days.

There ain't no more American Dream folks.

We have been hoodwinked.

Someone with lots of real world experience.

Sales.

You get paid exactly what your results are.

I agree. There are probably many exceptions, but what I've seen after thirty years of dealing with and observing the working world is that competence, dedication and hard work are no match for shrewdness and self promotion.

There's good and bad to that for the OP. The good is that if he is someone who is shrewd and comfortable with self promotion he'll find a way to achieve what he wants. Sales does some like a handy route to this. But if he lacks the temperment or is cursed with a fairly strict consccience it may never happen.

Start your own business. The drawback is that you usually have little or no income for the first couple of years, but the potential for 6 figures in three years is there. You might have to support yourself with a job while you get your business off the ground or find an "angel" aka an investor who likes the idea so much he/she is willing to back you.