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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on October 08, 2014, 12:28:22 PM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017219419
Oh my.
Veilex (1,043 posts) Tue Oct 7, 2014, 07:46 PM
Mike Rowe Explains The Skills Gap In USA Education System
There are many excellent blue-collar jobs out there... many of which pay better than jobs requiring college degrees! I held a security job which paid roughly $28/ hour that required no degree. That's nearly 60k a year! Which, frankly, is better than a considerable number of jobs which require 4 year degrees.
If I hadn't torn an ACL, I'd still be working there.
"The overall average starting salary for Class of 2013 new college graduates currently stands at $45,327, an increase of 2.4 percent over the reported average of $44,259 for Class of 2012 graduates, according to the September 2013 Salary Survey"
after which a youtube thingamajig
VanillaRhapsody (12,521 posts) Tue Oct 7, 2014, 07:50 PM
1. I think you mean $6000 a month...not 60K (or $60,000)
Veilex (1,043 posts) Tue Oct 7, 2014, 07:52 PM
2. Nice catch.
Meant to say year, not month.
VanillaRhapsody (12,521 posts) Tue Oct 7, 2014, 07:53 PM
3. that's what I thought....If Security paid $60k a month....I would become a Security Guard too!
Veilex (1,043 posts) Tue Oct 7, 2014, 11:21 PM
6. Even at 60k a year, its still a pretty darn good job.
Though after I blew my ACL, I decided I'd go your rout and get into computer programming... figure maybe I'll go become a pen tester.
NYC_SKP (62,023 posts) Tue Oct 7, 2014, 07:53 PM
4. $28/hour x 2000 hours/year = $56,000 gross/year
^^^Skippy.
Veilex (1,043 posts) Tue Oct 7, 2014, 11:23 PM
7. You'de actually want to...
multiply by 2080 standard work hours for the year...which comes out to $58,240 before taxes.
Spitfire of ATJ (17,880 posts) Tue Oct 7, 2014, 08:24 PM
5. Where's the shock? I see a lot of dumbasses owning homes and having new cars.
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Mike Rowe is going against the liberal meme that everyone needs a college degree and loan debt to be successful.
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Mike Rowe is going against the liberal meme that everyone needs a college degree and loan debt to be successful.
The Left cannot have that. He must be destroyed. :panic:
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2080 hours a year working? That's about 2000+/- hours too much for most DUmmies to step away from the keyboards.
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Veilex (1,043 posts) Tue Oct 7, 2014, 11:23 PM
7. You'de actually want to...
multiply by 2080 standard work hours for the year...which comes out to $58,240 before taxes.
You'd actually want to...
direct your response to people that might work more than 80 hours in a year, much less 2,080 hours.
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I worked with a pipefitter foreman several years ago who had his own side business - training and equipping new pipefitters. Fitters that were certified - after apprenticing under him for a few months - were drawing starting wages of about $100 an hour and were equipped with their own top-of-the-line welding rig(s).
No college required. No union dues (though if you were dumb enough, you could certainly go that route should you choose to). Very little in the way of student loans (only loans involved were for the apprentice's welding rig; usually paid off and clear within 12 months of starting). And the new certified pipefitter could take that set of skills and land comparable jobs anywhere in the country afterwards.
All they had to do, DUmbasses, was piss a clean Whiz Quiz. :thatsright:
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All they had to do, DUmbasses, was piss a clean Whiz Quiz.
That's crazy talk.
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That's crazy talk.
In my work and volunteering history, I've passed no less than seven background checks, been bonded three times, and have passed every piss test.
What say you, primitives?
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That's crazy talk.
Apparently...
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I am clocked to work 2,496 hours a year. That's not counting overtime or holiday hours.
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I am clocked to work 2,496 hours a year. That's not counting overtime or holiday hours.
My year is only 1872 hours, not counting overtime or vacation time.
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My year is only 1872 hours, not counting overtime or vacation time.
That's more than Atman, stewie, the big guy, and the drunken Pitt combined.
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That's more than Atman, stewie, the big guy, and the drunken Pitt combined.
n=stewie+n
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Envy is a very strong characteristics of DUmmies.
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Envy is a very strong characteristics of DUmmies.
It's a central, driving force behind damned near every thing they do. Hell, there are times I think some of these moonbats keep breathing solely because they don't want the rest of us to get more than our share.
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I am clocked to work 2,496 hours a year. That's not counting overtime or holiday hours.
12 x 182(.5) = 2,184 for me(before mandatory overtime).
The (.5) means every other year I have to work an extra 12 hour shift, so that year would be 2,196.