People who make $100,000+ a year, what do you do?

I got my degree in urban planning but work as a transportation coordinator at a freight brokerage firm. I'm essentially doing the job of a broker (calling trucking companies and hooking them up with customers/shippers, working with railroads, draymen and ocean shippers on intermodal freight) but without the title. I was a trucker for about two years before that while getting my degree.

Honestly, if you're interested I'd take a look at import/export companies and brokerage firms. Your degree is far more relevant to the job than mine is so you probably have a good understanding of how transportation and logistics work on the office side of things. It's a pretty fun job too and you get a weird rush when you book a 40,000 pound load of paper from Philadelphia to Indianapolis, or that container full of guar gum from Auckland was finally offloaded at the railroad yard in Miami. It gets a little stressful, but it's a ton of problem solving and everyone you work with has a different way of doing things, so there's a ton of variety and perspectives. As long as you're open to learning and adapting, it's kind of like being paid to play Railroad Tycoon.

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