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College is for fuckin LOSERS

>the trades are the real redpill
iykyk
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>get replaced by an Indian
>get replaced by a Mexican
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Office work is comfy. I’m mostly just browse 4chan on my phone.
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>>540328555
>replaced

labourers are dummies. Skilled trades ain't going nowhere faggot
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>>540328605
I'm sure a Mexican can learn how to swing a hammer just as effectively as you can, Jim-bo
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>>540328482
Trades suck ass if you don't work for yourself. You can make a lot of money if you do though.
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>>540328482
linemen are hyper specific. The only reason they get paid so much is because they could die at any moment. most trades cap out at $30 an hour
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>>540328670
this is why you go sit at the industry's distributor in your town, and watch. if white men are coming and going youre good to go. landscapers and other low tier laborer shit like auto detailers go to home depot or walmart, there is no distributor for them
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>>540328482
Who does Joe think he's going to do work for? Aquaman?
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>>540328688
this. the only effective way to be in trades is to be a sole proprietor or to be in an ownership position. if youre a unionbro or working for someone youre just a wagie with a toolbag
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>>540328670
They can't run their own business and do high quality work for high level clientele. They can only create goyslop for goys and make money for their kike overlords.
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>>540328482
those arrogant faggots who go around disconnecting electricity are not tradesmen, they're losers who would still be the night manager at K-mart if they hadn't stumbled across that job.
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>>540328555
Checked
The trades only allow shitskins, like every other job
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>>540328858
Lmao so mad you don't get free handouts.
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The trades suck ass i worked at a construction site for 1 day and just walked off after like 3 hours. Nothing but a bunch of chainsmoking alcoholic retards being bossed around by some guy that actually had a degree who came in later and probably left earlier.
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>>540328706
lol i sat in the truck all day today and make 5k a week
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>>540328555
if you sign up for landscaping for laboring, you deserve it. get a real trade.
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>>540328786
union guys are absolutely crushing it
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>>540328858
>arrogant faggots who go around disconnecting electricity are not tradesmen
youre describing employees of local power utilities? those are wagies
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>>540328706
Only way to get the trades to work for you is to wind up going to some kind of school anyway. If youre electrician do PLC, if youre a welder learn some specialized aspect, etc. Everyone has to go to an actual school at some point the only people acting like every college degree is some libarts shit are so retarded they couldn't handle any of them. Just a bad attitude from a loser.
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>>540328555
Indians don't do trades cause it's too hard to fake it/pawn off work.
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>>540329016
>t. wagie with a toolbag
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>>540328706
i like how people who clear 800 a week in tips talk about 30 bucks an hour like its chump change.
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>>540328482
I make 6 figures as a manager at bucees. Enjoy your ruined body tradie. How many fingers have you lost so far?
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>>540328916
no i'm mad that those stupid faggots don't even knock on your door first they just walk up and turn it off like some kind of a burglar.
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>>540329059
wagie with a toolbag making doctor-level pay as a HS dropout.
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>>540329139
lmao i remember you and your MS Word pay stub. FYI, you still have a boss, wagie
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A university degree is still the gold standard amongst my peers. It opens doors that would otherwise remain not just locked, but hidden.

I know this is 4chan and to be cynical and anti-establishment is always going to be the name of the game, but I would implore young people not to take anything seriously on this website.
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>>540329076
>bucees manager disrespecting blue collar
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>>540328482
college is where you go meet the jew that actively sabotages your life so the town he came from doesnt know he's a jew
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the military is where the dumber jews you meet that actively sabotage your life
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>>540329177
>i remember you
hello again poorfag
>you still have a boss
says "contractors" right at the top.
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>>540328482
College is for brainwashing. Turns out a bunch of woke retards
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>>540329409
4chan is where you meet the disabled jews that actively try to ruin your life
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>>540328482
The main advantages of white men over other races is our appearance and intellect. If you are a white man, you should get a job in business or STEM.
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>>540328482
>>the trades are the real redpill
true true, until your body gets fucked up badly and you end up with nothing but liquid, most blue collars dont provide with medical expenses insurance meaning no way to pay for bills and no way to keep making dough tho
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Uneducated think they can make more money ROTFL
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>>540328482
>be me
>second year apprentice
>making $30/hr
>get to move around all day
>get to shitpost irl at work
>bringing home 2k/week net (fuck ton of hours through), currently
Only thing I can complain about is my foot and knee and that shit started 20 years ago (sports injury).
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>>540329051
Not true, plenty of Indians in the merchant marine. Good men.
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>>540328482
The irony is i knew someone like the left but he was Tim not Jim. If you went to uf 09-13 iykyk.
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>>540329355
Do you file a 1099? If you don't then you aren't a contractor
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>>540329355
retarded replies like this are how you out yourself and your MS Paint pay stubs. youre a contractor, yet a third party is taking deductions out of your pay? type more, wagie
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>>540330281
>Do you file a 1099?
nope
>>540330411
>yet a third party is taking deductions
yes.

any more questions, poorfags?
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>>540330547
>Do you file a 1099?
>nope
lol. lmao. Have fun working for literal communist for nonexistent currency you fucking retard
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>>540330766
yes. I'll continue to be rich and accomplish all my goals while you collect piss jugs.
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>>540328555
FPBP
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>>540330868
just make sure you wear a hard hat buddy
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>>540330547
>>Do you file a 1099?
>nope
youre a wagie you stupid bastard. also how come you still use your July 2nd MS Paint pay stub? its August dumbass!
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>>540328555
> acquires disability from a job
> finds out the insurance is complete aids, get not 1/3 of the pay and struggle with permanent disability

Trades are shit. Working under a boss pays shit.

> just contract and find / maintain your own clients
Then you're a business owner / independent contractor. Guess what, consultants, programmers, lawyers who do that make way more without occupational hazards that require expensive insurance.
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>>540328670
I'd enjoy seeing an underpaid illegal Mexican install a 480 three phase control cabinet.
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>>540328706
$50+ is standard in many states. $100 total package is very achievable, even without living in a high cost of living area.
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>>540331081
I have heard of mexicans who have died from getting hit by 3 phase twistcords that fell in a puddle that he was standing in
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>>540331191
doing what kind of work?commercial?
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>>540328555
Trades are probably not as easy to replace with AI than most college miseducation.
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>>540331232
Operators, electricians, plumbers, pipefitters, carpenters, even laborers can all make $50+ if they're union.
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>>540328482
Sure but you will look 80 by the time you are 35, and walk around thinking stereotypical sun damaged males that watch sportsball type things and drive a large vehicle with way too bright headlights and be a scourge upon the earth.

When aliens take over, the Ford Raptors, the Silverados, and the tesla drivers will be the first to hang
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>>540331422
>if they're union.
does the idea of being a sole proprietor not even register with most people? the freedom of scheduling, the autonomy, the ability to give out cash discounts. what the fuck is it about these unions that draw people in?
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>>540331191
Exactly. All unions, even those in CA or NY, might start at $48/hr, but the real going rate in the field is closer to $100 at the higher end when the benefits are added in.
t. I work for a private tech company but we do public projects. I get paid over $100/hr on the west coast. i actually have my BA in history too so I'm a true hybrid of OPs picrel
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Encouraging white people to stay out of higher education was a psyop
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>>540328482
Enjoy working 50 hours a week and being crippled by 40 lmao
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>>540328482
Working is for losers. Winners get to have fun all day and live off the government for free.
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>>540328482
Joe the lineman had a large dick in his mouth and a ball sack resting on his chin.
Thats the only way you get in the electrician union hall where I live.
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>>540328482
>lineman
>100k
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>>540328555
Actually they have such bad reputations that people actually ask me before I do my quotes if my workers are jeets
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>>540329051
Tons of jeets in asphalt scamming people
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>>540328482
>implying the middle class actually still exists and are willing, paying customers instead
Fix your own shit and make better at a white collar job. I saved $400 by replacing my shower's cartridge myself and all it took was a nine year old YouTube video, a trip to home depot, channel locks, an allen key, phillips head screwdriver, vice grips and a small brass wire brush to clean off the corrosion. Took 30 mins.
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>>540328786
>sole proprietor
Start an LLC instead so you aren’t personally liable for losses
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>>540328706
What? No they don’t. I am in a trade and I make $100/hr+benefits, so all in like $150/hr

Electricians, while high up the residential ladder, are mid tier in comercial.

There are no Mexicans in big dick comercial where billions are on the line. Only whites.
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>>540328482
Enjoy the back problems
tc $200k
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>>540331828
>BA in history
By all means practically useless and very niche, but based fellow autist.
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>>540328482
>100k annually
>works 80 hour weeks to get it
This is the part they always leave out
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>>540328482
>>540328555
something profoundly fucked up about encouraging 17 year olds to move into a field where they're going to have to fight through a mountain of other workers every day to earn the privilege of not being able to function in your 40s
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>>540332956
Nah, I am 200k on the check with 40’s
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>>540332881
>concrete crew
Mexicans supervised by Whites
>rebar crew
Mexicans supervised by Whites
>roofers
Mexicans supervised by Whites
I reject your premise.
t. Works in construction
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>>540328482
https://youtu.be/HwqjZ84gD_c
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>>540333017
Project manager or superintendent?
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>>540328482
Philosophy degrees aren't easy to get though, most of the holders go on to work jobs that require a brain and hence do well
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>>540328916
Lineman jobs are literally free handouts and heavily subsidized

t. Lineman
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>>540333062
it's always the foreman bragging about how hard he worked to take over his dad's company
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>>540333017

Lies
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>>540331610
>the freedom of scheduling
Union homebois working as contractors have that. You negotiate work hours at the start of a job. If you don't like that job? Leave. You'll find a new one within a day by calling up the hall. Want to take half a year off? Sure. Your platinum-tier healthcare is covered, too. You get way more than that, even.
>autonomy
You answer to the customer and to lawyers if need be. Union bois don't answer to shit. Maybe the foreman if they feel like it.
>cash discounts
who cares, literally
>what the fuck is it about these unions that draw people in?
the highest pay, a million-dollar pension, free healthcare, job stability. Gee IDK anon
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>>540328482

I don't like being around either group

You "do" you, Jew Anon
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>>540333098
Ah, gotcha. Least they keep it in the family.
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>>540328482
>look liberals! I am retarded! I have a boring job that gives me little money and no power!
>look, I'm eating my own shit!
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>>540331828
>All unions, even those in CA or NY, might start at $48/hr
These niggas can't comprehend because they're so used to sucking red-colored dick to stop and think about how hard their 'based' conservacuck employers are raping them in the ass.

>UPS drivers make $50/hr
That's the pay for fucking package car drivers in the Union. Meanwhile 'normal' wagies still think they're hot shit making $25/hr just LOL
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>>540332847
it is i suppose i'm referring to self employment
>>540333217
>cash discounts
>who cares, literally
fucking lmao
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>>540333032
>lists the three worst trade jobs
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>>540333227

Stop namefagging
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>>540333382
>cash discounts
that's all you got out of my post? really nigga?

pea-sized brain-tier shit anon. Do better
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>>540333395
I just rejected his premise on the facts, not the shittiness of the work. Tranquilo, panuche.
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>>540333511
could you post a more current pay stub?
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>>540333119
>>540333098
>>540333062
I wish I was a PM, then I would make so much more when bonuses come out. No nepotism either, I am legit a wagie with no stake in the company. I only make 28.25% over the normal rate, and am not even close to being one of the highest paid. There are a lot of very specialized trades that make a lot of money

>>540333032
Yah, I don’t mean the construction of the fucking core and shell building you retard
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>>540333703
The fuck are you then a crane operator?
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>>540332918
respect back to you fellow above avg IQ chud. we unite by virtue of LAN
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>>540333703
>Fed Filing Status
>M
the real victory bros
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>>540333325
Thats facts. This tech company only has to pay this out to their private employees by CA, OR, IL, and NY law. everywhere else, my job is a wagecucks job, in blue states, we are actually paid like the engineers we are.
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>>540329051
lol you've never been to vancouver
sikhs run a lot of construction companies. and almost every building going up has an indian investor, and many of them just buy companies outright and keep the white staff on. they also hire their useless relatives that they make do the dangerous/illegal things everyone else refuses to because you can't say no to uncle. i knew a guy who got his hand cut up because the indian electrician who installed the dishwasher ran 110 instead of 220 and it caused the glasses to overheat to the point they shattered when you grabbed them.
everywhere you go, you see loads of sikhs doing roadwork with plastic turban covers for the rain.
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>>540329198
>A university degree is still the gold standard amongst my peers. It opens doors that would otherwise remain not just locked, but hidden.
Only if you are connected or related to someone hiring. Or DEI. Or went to such a posh school that the right handshake get you into banking or something. The remaining 99 percent of degree holders get nothing - apply to 10000 openings, have 12 internships, years experience, every skill there is, then have to suck cock and grovel at interviews...then get to do that in an office full of henhouse gossip and passive aggression for decades.

Wonderful.
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My buddy is a plumber who does t pay his water bill then when the city comes and shuts it off he just turns it back on again.
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>>540332727
you basically have to diy. try and get a plumber to show up to your house, i fucking dare you. i defy you to do this.
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>>540333703
Oh yeah, ironworkers and millwrights handle that here. It's mostly Whites on the jobs, but you have some blacks and Mexicans mixed in there. If it's structural welding though, they have to have their certs. Welding certs arent something you can bullshit. I trust that paperwork any day over idpol. American Welding Society standards cant be faked.
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>>540334058
Based
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>>540334058
Homedepot sales the item needed to turn it back on, you dont even need a special tool technically. Water should be free or free because its covered by taxes
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>>540329139
68 hours a week is brutal though.
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>>540334329
its fake
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>>540334058
You know you can completely bypass a water or electric meter. It's illegal as fuck and you're in shit if you get caught, but it can be done.
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>>540334021
This poster typifies the classic "loser mentality" that seems to be common amongst generation z cry babies today.

Just put the fries in the bag, I've not got all day.
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Nearly everything done in an office is essentially adult daycare - "presentations", paperwork, answering emails, spreadsheets, etc. Such stupid work even retarded LLMs are poised to wipe it out. Only the highest level R&D pure science and engineering to make real shit at the frontiers, not derived from prior art, will be the kind of white collar work left. Otherwise you better upskill on making shit in the real world, be it trades, handcrafting crap, medical. No more Lazy Girl jobs, wagie.
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>>540334460
No, get a real job as per >>540334460 lazy girl.
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Never ever work small company blue collar,
You will have to work with your bosses retard son or daughter who can't do shit and earn more than you for doing nothing.
And you will work for three people.
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>>540328844
That's where you get the Indians.
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>>540334329
>68 hours a week is brutal
Overtime is optional. If I worked straight time I'd make 133k a year + pension + health&welfare + free healthcare. Total package over 200k.

But seeing as I'm not a FAGGOT. How could I in my right mind turn down $100/hr?
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>>540328482
I fell for both memes.
>t. 30 and unemployed
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Best tradie job I've ever seen is this "stationary engineer" shit - no fancy college degree needed but real word knowledge in high voltage and mechanical systems. Half a million dollars!

The fact a jeet took this good trade job should motivate you swabs, that could have been one of you!

https://nypost.com/2018/10/05/this-nyc-sewer-worker-made-over-530k-last-year/
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>>540334734
>working 68 hours is based
>pretending his ms paint paystub is real
type more
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>>540334865
cope
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>>540333079
It's one of the degrees people who want to go to law school get. But without getting a JD or MBA etc. a philosophy degree has really low return on investment and job opportunities. OP could have at least compared it to a nursing, computer science, or business degree, since those are the most popular fields. But those degrees are also pretty hard and require a lot of math, so people do something easier like a BA in English. But unless you got that English degree with a solid plan for what you're going to do with it, it's not a great option.
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>>540334962
still waiting for that current paystub. get the lines right this time
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>>540333703
>time and a half
Ah yes, this bullshit:
>"I work the trades and maje 6 figures"
>How many hours you work?
>50 minimum
How many 60+ hour weeks have you pulled? By this stub's data you worked 52 hours.
*laughs in WFH data analyst*
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>>540328482
Trades ruin the body before 2 years
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>>540334966
Apparently AI companies are hiring lots of philosophy grads now for the various ethical safeguard schemes they are researching. As a dual CS and philosophy degree holder this is greatly amusing as it appears my humanities degree is apparently more valuable than CS in the AI era.
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Honestly what do I do?
I got offered a job for $27/hour doing what I used to do in a factory. But I don't want to do that shit anymore.
It's not enough.
Rent starts at $1500 a month around here.
Houses start at 400k
All the trailers (which I'd be fine with) all come with a fucking 458 dollar a month HOA fee.
If I don't start making 35 to 40 dollars an hour my life is basically nonviable.
I don't know what to do anymore.
I have almost 100k in savings. Living with my parents at 32.
I thought about learning mobile car detailing, but the more I looked into it the less stable and less lucrative it looked so I gave up.
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>>540334772
>decide to look up stationary engineer
>salary around $80 000 CAD
Not bad
>job prospects:good
The government always says there's a skilled labour shortage
>job postings: 3 in the entire province
Wut
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>>540328482
AFAIK trades alone is fairly shit, you also need to either go into a speciality and/or develop your own business within your trade.
Maybe the public work pathway is also good although I imagine it's bureaucratic and difficult to get into without connections in many places.
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>>540333032
>I reject your premise.
I reject yours based on work done in Arizona and New Mexico, whites are specialty work based on artistry and unorthodox tech but normal stuff is either mex or shitcanos.
Also for some reason i do admit electrical engineers are becoming "rare" in Arizona despite being lots of tradefags, i suppose it's the pay because most people pay 25/h while traders want 40, hence poaching freshly-graduated engineers from border states down south.



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