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I started out as a Shift Supervisor at Burger King and went on to a full service restaurant, thinking that restaurant management was what I wanted to do. The money was pretty good, but it wasn't satisfying. I took a huge pay cut to go into corporate training which I did for a year. Money was definitely tight and it was a huge culture change and an even larger learning curve. I was lucky that someone took a chance on me. Since I was doing a lot of technical training for computers my next leap was to get into a systems implementation company (Unisys). My technical background grew and so did the opportunities, and the paycheck. It was a lot of travel, but I was young and my wife was willing to sacrifice me not being around a lot for a couple of years. When my first child was about to be born, I came to the realization that being away from home for 80% of the time was not conducive to a family life. I jumped into an engineering job as a junior software engineer. All of that took about 5 years. My salary had grown 5 times since leaving BK. I am now in charge of multiple product lines for a software company.
The bottom line is, take risks while you're young and can absorb the cut in pay. If you're miserable, then you need to find something that you like and someplace you can grow professionally. Do a great job, get noticed and the world is your oyster. Good luck!
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It was like that when I got here....I swear.
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