 After graduating highshool, Neiksans pretty much left the competitive chess, pursuing career instead, and after receiving MBA Master's degree in Public Relations, he was mostly working in the communication's field, most notably Latvian Ministry of Education and Science, and later also at newspaper “Jelgavas Vestnesis”.At an age of 27 there was a sudden change of career perspective for Arturs Neiksans as in the autumn of 2010 he was offered to become the head chess coach in Riga Chess School.Thus he continued the interrupted work of the legendary Latvian grandmaster Janis Klovans who had just died at an age of 75.