Posted on 05/07/2012 2:35:03 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Bachelors $1,053 a week. What crack is this author smoking. Ill be lucky to get that for an MBA when I graduate. I have 20 years employment history..
When I was in high school quite some time ago the guidance counselors would identify the students that they didn't feel were college-bound and point them in the direction of a trade school. These students would go to regular high school for the first half of the day and then spend the second half at what we called "vocational tech" learning skills such as auto mechanics, welding, plumbing, etc. Many of these students were able to make good money right out of high school.
For some reason, schools have done away with "vo-techs". I think the conventional wisdom is that all kids should aspire to go to college and many of the trades that were taught were geared towards males. Can't have that!
MOVE and by God don’t bring any California with you.
North Dakota, Wyoming and even parts of Idaho BOOMING
We have plenty of Californians in Texas ... pretty sure we have reached our quota
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Who's the "dummy" now? Me. I stupidly went into medicine. I make about what a master plumber makes. And if he owns his own business, he's doing very well.
He's not going to get sued by a disgruntled patient/client.
And if a customer doesn't "feel" like paying him for his work, he can tear out the sink he just installed.
“If it does, then I have been “studying” Women all of my life and I still don’t understand them and I have spent a fortune trying to. :)”
It’s easy. Women want what they don’t want, except when they change their mind.
Salesman is a dirty word to a lot of people but they are the people that drive the economy. I forget which sales/business guru first coined the phrase but we all live by it “Nothing happens until first the sale.” I consult with a lot of people doing startups and 9 times out of 10 all my advice is on sales and marketing because so many people with great ideas, great products, really innovative and killer business can’t sell and so nothing ever happens. When I talked to you young people about jobs, careers, college etc I always point out that if money and job security are most important to you then you should learn to sell. Good salesmen out earn the management, the engineers, and all the other workers in most industries. Here’s a fun a example that shows what most people don’t understand about where the money is in jobs. - I know 5 guys in the orthopedic business. One is an engineer. He has 5 years of college, works 50 hours a week and makes 55k. One is a machinist. He has no college, works 50 hours a week and makes 75k. One has an MBA and works in HR at the same firm as the first two and makes $45k. One is an Orthopedic surgeon. He has 11 years of school/residency. He works 50 hours a week and is on call another 24 hours. He makes $220K. THe last guy is an independent sales rep for the orthopedic products the other four guys deal with. He works 40 hours a week, half of it in tropical places with his clients and he make $350k.
We want to, but we want to wait a few years. Our daughters have medical issues, and we want them to finish up high school here. Plus, my husband was recently diagnosed with cancer.
We’re hoping to move out in 3 years.
Yes, I can remember the same thing at the high school I attended. There, they divided the students into two categories, one “college preparatory” and the other not that (I don’t remember the term they used). Again, the males in the latter category were often guided into voc training.
College degrees aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on unless it’s a specific professional degree. And even then, it’s suspect. I hire attitude and work ethic, degrees dont mean sh!t anymore. Sad but true, most kids have zero work ethic. It’s refreshing on the rare occasion that you find it though.
There is plenty of room in Texas for more. I fact, I'm hoping at least 5 million more go there.
Nice joke, but I wonder whether you might be an engineer making fun of those who didn’t major in one of the engineering studies.
If only everyone majored in engineering, huh? All they had to do was switch majors...
You missed the point I was trying to make. It's beyond engineering just being more difficult. Handling the math involved in all the engineering studies is simply beyond the capabilities of most students. Some Freeper, quoting a professor, said that only 15 percent of students could handle the math. So, what the hell do you want the other 85 percent to do?
As it happens my son in law is a plumber and I am related to two physicians. My son in law earned about 80k last year, the Dr’s a multiple of that.
Now it is nice to have some quick MD advice and a prescription called in, but when something serious happens, like a broken water pipe, you know who I call.
The best is they all work steady and enjoy their work.
“Salesman is a dirty word to a lot of people but they are the people that drive the economy.”
Ain’t that the truth! I am an engineer at the top of my game, did consulting for 15+ years, and found the truth in business the hard way. Those “business weenies”, as I used to call them, make the money. A great engineer can make a product and earn millions, billions even, but on whole it is the sales people that can earn the big bucks.
I studied women in college too.
“the RN is a good back up just in case”
The RN requires upkeep, too. You can’t just enter the workplace again after being out for years.
I have worked with a lot of talented people like you who did not have degrees. They really pay for it in a corporate environment.
Many of us went to school for lucrative degrees; once you can command $50K forces are at work to either send the work elsewhere (which wouldn’t apply in the oil patch) or simply bring foreigners in to do it (even if they are educated here as part of the package). In any case, what happened in tech and finance is surely at work in other high-wage jobs; Asians are being trained to do the work for a lot less, often in American universities. I work with one of the larger CPA firms, and of the four people I deal with the partner is the only American. One is Indian, one is Filipino (he said he was recruited from the Philippines for $65K, with no CPA and limited English - better-qualified Americans would kill for that job), and the last is a Canadian national who said the process took her five years to work here. All three of these foreigners took jobs for which there is no shortage of qualified Americans, and their company is probably looking for ways to replace them as soon as they become full citizens and want such things as sick days and Sundays off.
It is frightening; I couldn’t imagine what decisions a fifteen year-old faces today.
Would your son like robots? Would he be interested in AI? There is alot of math and probabilities involved in these areas.
I have recently been doing some online learning, for free, from this site: http://www.udacity.com/ They are on their second six week list of courses and it is interesting and demanding.
They even have a cryptography class. I just took the Cs101 basic programing class in Python. If not for your son, maybe for you.
There are other free online learning places on the net.
Look into it. It could be a way to update your skills.
And prayers for your husband.
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