Decisions Decisions

Searching for a position in marketing a "real" company can be pretty challenging. By real company I mean not "work from home" or "build your own team" type opportunities. Likewise, some positions want candidates with their "own customer base." That means they want you to sell their products to your friends.

Big corporations are slow to move. Period. The hiring process takes a very long time. Sometimes I get rejection letters for jobs I applied to months before. In the past, I have recieved requests for interviews months after I have already been working in a position.

I have a pipe dream, that I might potentially find my niche in ranch or equestrian marketing. Either marketing for a guest or working ranch or marketing for an equestrian program or association. Because this is where about a third of my marketing experience has come from.

However locating the equine businesses big enough to warrant even one person in marketing is tough to find.

So I am keeping all of my options open, applying to everything and hoping for a good one!

Of course, everywhere I look, employment in horses comes my way. Very frustrating given that I would really like to keep that part time and eventually go hobby (yes, I am working in reverse of the majority of people in horses). I was just recently offered a spot teaching at another barn that I used to work for.

This probably isn't a bad deal. Lope some horses for the cutting trainer, teach and train at the show barn and teach at the lesson barn. It is a whole lot of running around but perhaps this is how people get by in this economy.

What in the hell is a Bachelor of Science in Business Marketing degree really good for anyway? Why in the hell did I bust my butt to get into that school (9th in the country) and why did I "overachieve?" For what?

I guess for my other pipe dream of working for a GOOD company, that pays well and has great benefits.

I have an application in on a luxury guest ranch in Montana that promotes mostly horseback riding - they are looking for a marketing person and are interested in me.

I have also considered going fully independent on a business idea that *might* work.

So, do I move to Montana? Do I open up shop on my own? Do I just keep working at random places until I find the right thing?

What I do know about the corporate job market, if I do not have a job by the end of November, I won't have one until February.

Do I say "screw it" and apply to be a trail guide in Hawaii (there is an opening on Maui)? Or perhaps I could find a job on a fishing boat. I really love Hawaii.