No Friend Like an Old Friend
Mike Snyder, who grew up in Michigan and spent most of the last 20 years in and out of California, began work after college as a driver for FedEx in the early ‘80s. He ended up as vice president of the company’s eastern region, responsible for $2 billion in revenue and more than a thousand employees.
After 17 years with FedEx, he began working on small- and medium-sized company turnarounds. He has spent the past 10 years doing that at seven different companies, including airlines and transportation businesses. Snyder has also done a lot of consulting with businesses. “I enjoy helping businesses fix their problems,” he says. In fact, he adds, he’s enjoyed that kind of troubleshooting in pretty much every job he’s ever had.
But a few years ago, he and his wife decided they’d had it with so much moving. “We felt, for the kids’ sake, we needed to settle down and – as she says – nest,” Snyder says.
As he looked for opportunities that would allow them to do that, he found himself in a career dilemma. “I found myself to be ‘overqualified’ for most of the jobs that were out there, and I didn’t really want to go backwards and take a mid-level management job after running three or four companies,” he says.
After a disappointment at a job in Orlando that looked like it had possibilities for a long-term future, Snyder made a decision.
“I told my wife to pick where she wanted to raise the kids, and I’d change my career,” he says. She chose Ohio, where the couple and their three youngsters now live in New Albany, which is northeast of Columbus.
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