As a small business owner I will tell you to aim high. Look at what you really enjoy doing, and then try to find a way to make money doing it. I have had jobs like yours, and I too hate them. My last job was working as a QC supervisor at a local stove factory. It was very boring, walking around all day for 10 hours looking at the same old parts all day long. Every now and then there would be some excitement, but not usually. Lets be honest, the only type of excitement you get at a bank is if you were getting robbed, and that's not exactly the type of excitement you look forward to. However, the other point of view is that you are getting paid decent money to do basically nothing. For some people that is great b/c that's all they want to do... nothing. But like yourself, I want to do things I enjoy. To ease my stress, I started Rock Solid Off Road Fabrication last year. I would work on vehicles for 4-5 hours every after noon when I got off from my 10 hour shift at the stove factory. Then, one day my boss (who was new to the position and started after me) asked me to meet with him and I did. They offered me a promotion in a new department. After speaking it over, I was told that I could possibly be in for a raise and the hours were a little better, so I took it. Well, after 2 weeks of this new job, he asked to meet with me again. The money situation was brought up and he asked me what I was making, as he didn't know since he was new to the job. Well, he had a puzzled look on his face when I told him, and it turns out that I was already getting paid more than max pay for the new position I had been placed in. Of course, they had already replaced me with a new guy, so at that point I was kinda stuck. I told him that I would walk out the door and not look back if they cut my pay, then I got up and walked out of his office and returned to doing my job. Two days later he called me in again and told me that he had no choice and he was going to have to drop my pay by $2.40 per hour. I stood up, and said "I told you what I was going to do if you did this, have a nice day" and walked out of his office. I gathered my things and walked to payroll, asked for my paycheck, then left and haven't been back since.
Since that day, I have been doing what I love in my very own shop. But don't let it fool you. Its EXTREMLY hard work running your own business. There is way more to it than you could ever imagine, plus, being by yourself all of the time can suck too. Over all, I would say that it's the best thing I have ever done for myself, but it can be very stressful. Like I said, there is a lot to it.
I guess what I am saying is... there are pros and cons to everything. The pros to your current job are that you get paid pretty good to sit around on you butt all day in a nice cool air conditioned bank. The cons are that it's very boring. My job has new and exciting things, but I work in 90+* temps everyday in the summer, and it gets mighty cold in the winter time.
You have to decide if you would rather work harder and be more stressed, and maybe not make much more money to do something you enjoy, or if you want to sit around and take it easy doing basically nothing.
With my job, it's something pretty much completely new every day. I think you should keep your fingers crossed on the beer rep job since that would be fun and involve meeting new people and doing different things everyday. From what you have said, it seems to me you have a good chance at that job. However, stick with your current job until that one (or another better one) comes along.
:cheers: Good Luck!
