What do you do and how much do you make?
Share aspirations and give advice
etc.
I'll start:
make $15/hr night stocking
have an in with concrete union for general labor @ $28/hr
scared of breaking back for unfulfilling work
Am I worrying over nothing?
woodworking
$45/hr + benefits and pension
i work for a custom home builder and build all their cabinets/bars/door and window frames
really cozy job
>night stocking
>fulfilling work
pick 1
that does sound cozy, how long have you been doing that?
Not what I meant, I'm trying to get out
Used to make 23 an hour as a union welder. Got payed off not to long ago cause the shit moved to china
Web Dev Ecommerce 90k in rural PA
8 years
I make 20-30 most of the year, getting a pay raise for 27-37 next year.
Because it's off season I'm working for 15 an hour at a different job.
Oh aspirations and advice
Learn web development easiest fucking thing in existence sadly most web devs are lazy trash but it's not hard to impress with that said
Looking to make an App that people will pay for but is a simple info app, just need to keep it updated.
23 as a welder? fuck thats low
go to a custom fabrication shop or open your own welding company
Geotechnical Engineer
~$82,000/year + benefits + bonus
I work in union construction trade
>picture related
is the exact job I do
I make $39.60 an hour
>20 years ol
>university student
>security guard
>$20 dollars an hour
I'm doing alright
also you don't need two guys on a concrete hose like that coming from the pump truck and they're not vibrating the concrete to make it settle right and not honeycomb
figures it would be niggers in the picture and why in the north east the unions are still majority white and voted Trump
15 an hour locksmithing i just got a raise
yeah just get in a union and get your life on track and make money to provide for your family plus hard work will make you strong not to many jobs are truly fulfilling I'm an fire alarm electrican make 31 an hour
Writer. 4 cents a word. When business is good I make tons. About 75/hr
Unfortunately business sucks so I work 50 hrs week body guarding strippers and selling whip its and shit in a porno shop for 10/ hr plus tips ( no homo) and some commissioned sales.
Research Assistant
$25k + tuition free grad school
Worth it even coming from a year in industry at $65k, $25k is poor but livable in my part of the country
kek, was waiting for someone to notice Cheech and Chong.
So how'd you get started in your trade?
go with the union user
I've been doing it a long time, you're not every really going to be fulfilled by work that's what family is for and why you work
$28 am hour is not bad but is that your hourly or you package rate in the union
know how to pick locks?
Plumber/gas fitter/hvac tech
100000/yr benefits and bonus too
10 years
any anons recommend a carpentry apprenticeship? 4 year paid with benefits, starts at 13$/hour
t. burger
>freelance artist
anywhere from 20-50$ an hour depending on how fast I work
>network engineer
>115k/year
It's client type work, I live in the midwest.
I.T. Security is pretty hot right now.
A fucking leaf
afaik it's the hourly during month long contract spurts, with time and a half or doubletime on the weekends, then you collect unemployment between jobs. What's a package rate?
Job finding tips?
I'm desperate unemployed 5 months now dwindling savings
Apply for every single job online in 50 mile radius daily, only 2 interviews
Want to go to trade school but no income to pay for school gas insurance and food
Forced to resign from last job but good references
You have to factor he is an American and doesn't have to pay $12 per roll of toilet paper. I am paying $450 for rent in a brand new 2400 square foot house for example. As a union electrician apprentice I have made as high as $84/hour.
Dont fool yourself, /ic/
Just do it pussy. You'll never be fulfilled and can always go back to night stocking.
Also if it's not obvious I only have high school diploma so I apply for all entry level jobs
My resume is great so that's not the issue
>My resume is great
Post it, lets see
say that to my bank fagolio
What kind of trade are you looking to pick up? Schooling might not be necessary to start
Merchant mariner
About $100,000-$120,000 a year depending on what I'm doing
Fuck off we're full
Snr NCO in the Leaf military.
If I average out the hours I work, it's something like $35 an hour.
Though I'm looking into policing, where I will make 30k more per annum, and actually get to beat on druggies and the occasional hippy.
they paying for schooling?
I was in college for computer science and my father who was in the union at the time (now retired) got me in
I went in full time because my ex got pregnant but she was a cheating whore and it wasn't mine but so I left the bitch the moment I found out.
I just never went back to school and I don't regret it either everyone I know who is in an office job now is miserable, they have to worry about getting laid off for some progressive new job initiative. They're over weight, drink every night and divorced from working so much to get 80k a year
I leave work at work, I'm in shape, I date girls younger than me, I'm almost saved for a down payment a nice house I can afford and if I get laid off there are other companies and unemployment until I go back. I'm not reliant on a company
Fuck trade school. Join an apprenticeship as you will HAVE to complete a 3-5 year program that gets you guaranteed OTS training, higher pay, schooling, and your official state license.
Lighting engineer, self-employed
Make around €60k a year
Did you get a degree or just start out as able-bodied seaman?
You sure as fuck arent making 100k a year in any labor job, union or not, in the US. Master Electricians (which require a 4 year electrical engineering degree) in the US top out right around 80k a year... which is after 15-20 years getting to that position.
The bottom half of electricians (the guys who actually do the work) all make well below 40k a year.
NEET
800 something euro per month
>US. Master Electricians
>electrical engineering degree
You are a retard
Worked as a painter while in university, where I also worked as a laborer on the university agricultural farm.
back to school to apply for nursing school to be a male fit/ nurse
need a career and a paycheck with OT
I'm pretty high/low (close to hiring) for the city fire dept but I can't bank on that
He's probably counting all the overtime he does. Sure he makes a 100k but he's working 70 hours a week.
Degree. It's basically impossible to hawsepipe it anymore due to all the Coast Guard and STCW regulations. It's worth it, even if you have to take loans for the academy you'll have them paid off in like a year
Also, you don't start off as an AB. You start off as an Ordinary Seaman (OS) and need a year of sea time for you AB ticket
Contractor Pipefitter and Pressure welder. Highly recommend. Amazing pay if you are good. Basically I build all the above ground shit once the drilling rigs leave site. Depending on the client, me and my truck make on average 125/hr.
plus I made 60k last year and have made more in years with a lot of OT. I'd have a house by now but It's a long story full of ex gfs and a couple of years of addiction after being in a motorcycle accident
I do alright but I'm not very materialistic
I was working on pressure vessels in a factory so it was warm all year round in the shop, been looking at a lot of stuff as far as other jobs and it seems to be even less money. I'll move if need be what welding makes more? I can weld/braze and have no problem passes x-ray/ut tests all day long on 1 plus welds.
Any info on how people got into pipeline welding would be appreciated
where is rent that cheap? 450 here gets me a closet
Brick mason. Work for company that repairs and fixes up houses.
15/hr starting. Eventually moving to sales though in the company after I graduate
If you're a master electrician with two decades of experience and you're only making 80k you're fucking up badly. 1st year inside journeyman wiremen make 65k, with another 40k+ in benefits on top of it here.
What kind of degree do you need? Sounds interesting, still haven't declared major and I loved spending time on boats, even though that's probably a really shitty reason to be interested in this
Shit, sounds like your kicking ass, that's my goal in the couple years is to get a comfy house to call my own, I'm more or less done with urban life.
This sounds fun as fuck. Selling whip it's and guarding strippers lol
union boiler makers make around 100k in good years user, you keep falling the
>blue collar people are poor meme
Tower crane operator,i fill in my own time sheets and add my bonus.
Shitcurity 8 Euro an hour. Basically fucked up everything due to ADD and Aspergers that completely buried me after doc didn't want to renew my Ritalin subscription anymore* right when I was about to graduate.
(Took it since I was 8 so I am pretty sure my neurons are completely rekt now).
Not a lot of hope left, but honestly it's comfy at the bottom.
*(I later went to a second doc towards the end of an apprenticeship. Gave me some sort of combined anti-depressant dopamine reuptake inhibitor which had me convulsing in fear several times a day for the short time I took it. Didn't go back to get it adjusted, obviously).
TL;DR: Mental illness will ruin your fucking life.
/notmyblog
I make 7.25 at Pizza hut.
I'm using it right now to get the money to get my drivers license since I didn't get it in high school. I'm working in the kitchen for a bit until I get my license and a car then I'm gonna be a driver.
After that I'm planning to become a cable installer since I'm an electrician by trade. It's stable 40 hours a week at 15/hr. so I'm alright with that.
In a year I'm hoping to move to Colorado so I can get MMJ and join an electrical union. The state I'm in right now is too strict on the issue so I need to go somewhere that will let me stick with my treatment and work.
Are my goals too outlandish?
Are you a good swimmer?
I should also add that we work in the middle of nowhere. Some sites are like a 4 hour drive to the closest town. And the hours can be ridiculously long. It's not uncommon to work 100+ hours a week.
You have to go to a maritime academy. The actual college degree doesn't mean shit, the whole purpose of the academy is to get all of your STCW and Coast Guard requirements for your Merchant Mariner's Credential, your license, which is what authorizes you to work as a mate (deck officer)
Turned out electricians make well above 40k unless they are getting laid off often or hall walkers. Ones working out of state make local comparable wages like in San Fran would be $54/hour, paid hotel, and a daily ~$60 stipend for food. Usually work out of state is desperation and would come with buku overtime so consistent $81/hour.
Texas living with my brother.
Working in the tourism sector. Currently studying for my pilot's license and see where that'll take me. I absolutely do not want to work in an office my whole life.
>electrician by trade
>works at Pizza Hut
Wat?
Could you learn enough about web dev for free online to net a job like yours?
Yeah, not that it matters. If you ever end up in a situation where you're in the water without your survival suit, life jacket, or lifeboat/raft, you're probably fucked anyways
I'm doing alright I'd just like to find the right white girl to settle down and have a family with now otherwise I have most of the things I want, a brand new car with a low payment
>put a lot down on it and didn't buy something I couldn't afford
I go to the gym, when I'm not tired, and I still have time for hobbies and shit posting
plus you don't pour concrete everyday, the days you do will kick your ass but I don't have to take the concrete home to finish or worry about a deadline
plus if you find a job as a foreman you do nothing physical half the time and get paid more just to make sure the guys are doing the job right
I make aftermarket replacements for the proximity keys and remote-head keys used in modern cars. $15/hr with holiday bonuses and 2 weeks vacation. Feels good to work inside.
2nd year electrician apprentice currently working for a low voltage company that primarily does fire alarms and security systems.
$15/hr with lots of overtime. School costs around $5K/yr for 3 years.
I love most aspects of my job. It's fun putting together panels and stepping back to see your work. I do find myself tired at the end of each day, but I don't think I'm doing long term damage to my body. The long drives probably do the worst damage.
don't be negative nigga, just keep going, get that diploma if you're that close.
Production testing (gas wells) $150,00 - 210,000 yr
To sit for an Illinois Electricians License exam you need 7 years in an apprenticeship, a minimum of 2 years vocational school/a associates degree, and show proof of 20 hours continuing education for the year at the time of the test.
And that is just for a licensed electrician. You can not go past Journeyman in the union without a bachelor's degree. A journeyman tops out at around 65k a year in the union. Around 50k a year outside a union.
That part is the only bad thing I can think of
>work outside
but dress warm and work and you just get use to the cold, you know like our ancestors who actually had a sac
Me and my dad have been electricians as long as I can remember. We run a handyman service to avoid regulations but we are best with electrical.
He taught me at a young age everything I needed to know. When I was 9 my dad started taking me on the job with him to do things like installing circuits, running conduit and wire, etc. I also had to understand Ohms Law at a young age so the mathematical aspects of electrical work wouldn't be so alien to me.
When I say by trade I'm saying I've been trained I just haven't been formally trained. I have 15 years on the job recorded experience as an interior wiring technician. I've just never hooked up with a school or a union.
Accounting
electrical engineering intern
make 20 dollars an hour, figuring out how to shrink a board.
Robotics and automation is going to take over the economy so I guess it's a pretty good industry.
What's your education senpai? IT degree or Comp Sci bachelors or what?
Was a Head chef in a few places up untill recently. I am completing my chemistry degree part time so needed more free time for that and the gym. I have a few assets so left and now just work part time as a telephone fundraiser for the blind. It's pretty comfy but pay is shit. Only temporary though.
I recently got accepted into a full-time firefighting position and have an assessment soon. Wish me luck lads.
You dont count benefits in wage consideration, otherwise UAW guys screwing in door panels on new cars would be making "95k+ a year"
>school costs $5k/year for 3 years
What in the fuck. Apprenticeship is five years and currently costs $740 for a school year. A second year should be making more than that. Because my first raise before school even will put me at $15.30
>You can not go past Journeyman in the union without a bachelor's degree. A journeyman tops out at around 65k a year in the union. Around 50k a year outside a union.
Wrong. People can make higher wages in a open shop depending on the company. Master electricians can be highered for $45/hour while the Journeyman's wages are $27.50 and Foreman wages are $30.45
Good for you, man. Fuck unions. The merchant service is really unionized (like 50% of all positions are union jobs) so we have to put up with them a lot but they're a pain in the ass. Every couple of years when the oil prices drop all the fuckers working in the Gulf get laid off and come up north to take positions from guys that don't have as much seniority as them. REEEEEEEEE GULFIES GET THE FUCK OFF MY SHIP
>What do you do and how much do you make?
>Share aspirations and give advice
>etc.
>
>I'll start:
>make $15/hr night stocking
>have an in with concrete union for general labor @ $28/hr
>scared of breaking back for unfulfilling work
>Am I worrying over nothing?
gas fitting , 14 and hour. need to get signed up.
I want to be a refrigeration mechanic but it's hard to get in to, but once you have your gas b ticket you get 1 year credit anyway.
Millwright Apprentice $20/hr
I work for a major tire manufacturer.
4 year IT degree, from Devry actually (lmao)
Any 4 year degree works for getting your foot in the door, then it's just experience. Try to get some internships while in school. The more specialized the the IT field (i.e. security and networking) the more you can make but the bigger city you'll need to live in.
Again, it just doesnt happen. You guys are starting to sound like the commercials on late night TV for Everest College.
A union boilermaker in the top 5% of the field, make 65K a year. The bottom 10% earn less than 30k a year (which is less money than a cashier at Costco makes)
gas station cashier
make the pain stop
Not much overtime, but I get a percentage of what is sold.
I sell insurance to old people
I make 100-200K a year
I also just opened up a payday loan store, those places that give poor people loans at 500% interest
Finally, I got approved for a 1.2m loan to buy an apartment complex, once that's in place, I'll have enough passive income each month to retire if I wanted.
Thanks for the information man, really appreciate it.
Where did you get your Civil Engineering degree?
>25 years old
>humanities degree (no regrets)
>work as a datacuck in London
>earn equivalent of $31,400 (just over average wage)
Hoping to hear back this week for a job I applied for which is 20 hours a week and $16,000.
Are you that user who does nautical electrical or something like that?
I saw some posts a while ago of a box and a cluster fuck of wire from some ship projects.
The IBEW will send me to school and get me work so I might be sucking union dick soon. I mean for god sake I can run HVAC and I'm working at Pizza Hut because I don't have any certs, training, licenses or degrees.
EVEN THOUGH I CAN DO ALL THE WORK!
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE BUREAUCRATS GET OUT MY TRADE
You mean graduate? I should. If for no other reason than to prove it to myself.
I think what DOES depress me is that I know for a fact my parents HAVEN'T lost hope.
I so wish they did.
I wish it like nothing else in the world.
My dad went to being a nobody taxi driver to running a million-Euro company in one of the most business-averse places on this already borderline commie continent.
I know they think I can do the same.
Just...
Hatred and disappointment would be easier to bear than what I know is entirely uncalled for optimism.
>Turned out electricians make well above 40k unless they are getting laid off often or hall walkers.
and that brings up another issue, at least in large cities. The union must give out jobs based on seniority and there are only so many jobs. It is no uncommon for guys to go 2-4 weeks at a time with no assignment and no income. You also can not work side jobs or hold a non-union job of any kind. So during those 2-4 months a year you arent working, you cant go find your own jobs to bring in cash. If the union finds out, they will pull your card instantly
trucker
i farm memes at truck stops between runs
>26
>IB analyst
>$85k before bonus
>in a good year, bonus will be about 3/4 or the full amount of my salary
>total about $150K/yr
>unfulfilling work
I do similar work for less money and it feels so rewarding to me. I get paid to work out and provide valuable services to the community.