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Looking to spice up your job routine? Want to trip the country except don't have the cash to go without a job for an extended times of time? Take a page from Daniel Seddiqui's playbook. Quit your job and contract yourself out to 50 different employers in 50 states through the course of 50 weeks. You'll get variety the opportunity to travel for a year and a somewhat steady income. It's genius.

Bored with his job at an office in Skokie Illinois Daniel decided to try something new. Actually he decided to try something new every week. He resolved to work his way along the US doing odd jobs in each state. Along the way he held some jobs he loved (working love a dietitian in Mississippi) and some he loathed (taking abuse from film corporation execs in LA). He also worked as a border patrol officer in Arizona helped out a cellar master in Napa Valley made cheese in Wisconsin and toiled in an oil refinery in Oklahoma.

Some jobs paid well like the medical device manufacturer that gave him $2000 for getting the company coverage on CNN while others like the gig making furniture with the Amish in Pennsylvania well...not so much. For that Daniel earned just $100 for the week.

Daniel says some jobs were more hard than others but it seems like one of the hardest aspects of undertaking this project was probably setting it up. Daniel says he estimates that 100 companies rejected his offer per state. But he continued making cold calls and networking and eventually landed all 50 gigs.

So what's the next job for Daniel? Writing a book about the adventure of course.

Illinois man works 50 jobs in 50 states originally appeared on Gadling on Tue 13 Oct 2009 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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