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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All the jobs you’re listing don’t have 9-5 hours not lots of them have extensive hours that are not at all flexible.

For other non-office jobs, I have a friend in technical theatre.  She works several movies a year, which are crazy 12+ hour days for a few months at a time… and then takes weeks to months entirely off work.  It would make me crazy but she enjoys it.  Another friend is a writer — novels and freelancing journalism and stuff.  Totally flexible but she sure has to be able to motivate herself to get stuff done.  Someone else I know is a woodworker.  He has normal hours but no office work, obviously.  He started vocational training at the end of high school.  His brother is an EMT, which seems a bit more flexible but doesn’t always pay terribly well: for a while he joked he worked at a rehab center to be able to support hours EMT habit.

What is your son looking for/trying to avoid?  [b]Work life balance, in my experience, is best found by being a white collar cog in a large company in the middle of the organization (this is what I do — it’s WFH, flexible enough for me to be the primary parent for my young kids, pays fine, etc).[/b]  But not everyone is cut out for that kind of thing.[/quote]

Came here to say this. All the jobs listed by OP sound much easier and less flexible than a typical WFH/flex schedule white collar employee.[/quote]

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