Leaving or Left the Appraisal Profession for another Career?

[Terrel L. Shields]

have a hard time with is when appraisers firmly believe that they have it so much worse than every other field

agree...would you want to be a broker and go broke? an agent when a house hasn't sold for months? a banker where the examiners hold an axe over their heads every day or even the examiner working long hours away from home?

"...saw the tears of the oppressed and that they had no one to comfort them; and on the side of their oppressors was power, but they had no one to comfort them. So I congratulated the dead who are already dead more than the living who are still living." - Eccl 4:1,2

The economic downturn has hurt a lot of people, even the ones who still have jobs. Happiness relates to control. When we feel "in control" (we have money in the bank, no threat of a job loss or foreclosure) we are happier. The unhappiness that many of us see is difficult to keep transitioning upon ourselves and I look at a darker vision of the future than perhaps even at the lowest moments after a failed marriage, a job loss in good times, or when money forced me to drop out of college....These are the times that try men's souls...and women's, too...

 

[J Grant]

Charles Dickens: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

Compared to serfs in the middle ages, we have it pretty good. Depends what we compare ourselves to...

 

[Mile High Trout]

I actually am looking into seedier, 'shadier', more sheister-oriented businesses,

Heck no. Appraising is way more ethically challenging than being a used car salesman.

Both however, are cash cows for those who overlook ethics.

The parallels are indeed, disconcerting.

 

[Pilgrum]

I actually am looking into seedier, 'shadier', more sheister-oriented businesses, readily accepted and tolerated by regulators, government and law enforcement,
with more of a criminal element than residential mortgage lending - related businesses, but I can't find any with more of these elements than I already have now. (And I really LOOKED...)

Have you considered becoming a realtor?

 

[CANative]

I stopped appraising houses last year but I have kept my license. I don't see myself appraising houses for lenders anytime soon. Hopefully ever.

I have a pretty good job working for a property tax consulting company. I can use all of my experience without the need to use my license.