"Trap: Pilot.
You have to take on $150k debt to train, there’s oversupply of pilots in the West (and that was pre-covid) so you generally end up at a cr#ppy low-cost carrier earning surprisingly little and paying back that debt.
You start off with little control over your hours and holidays. You compete with other pilots for the most attractive bases.
Contracts are very one-sided and redundancies are fairly common.
It was a pretty sweet career for a while, and senior pilots still enjoy a lot of benefits.
But to me, it just looked like a multi-decade grind of shift work and poor pay in some cr#p corner of the continent."
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Madge 2 year s ago
#1 - true dat. The life of the untenured radical is a thin one.
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Midge 2 year s ago
Madge,
being a faculty is easy. oh wait asians have saturated that market. bunch of mindless drones
being a faculty is easy. oh wait asians have saturated that market. bunch of mindless drones
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Felicia 2 year s ago
#8 - everybody knows that. 15 minutes of research could have saved this person 4 years of school.
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Jeremiah 2 year s ago
People get excited about paper hat degrees, such as English Lit, Environmental Mgmt, and Sociology. Then they blame everyone else for the huge student loan they will never repay. Do your research before you jump in to any career. Take a summer job related to that career and keep both eyes open. If you can't find a related job think about what you just learned.
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Adelaide 2 year s ago
Jeremiah,
It's not always about money.
It's not always about money.
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Elminie 2 year s ago
#20. If you get hired into IT administration, and you don't know how to map a network, you're in the wrong career.
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Alazama 2 year s ago
No one wants to work anymore.
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Fronia 2 year s ago
Alazama,
I want to work.
I want to work.
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Lucas 2 year s ago
I wanted to be an architect, but we got pregnant and I had to earn so I started working as a builder. 6 years on I went out by myself, within a year I was making well over $100k and I've never made less ... working 45 hours a week. Being the boss is the way to go, and dealing fair with customers means everybody is happy.
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Margie 2 year s ago
Yeah, retired fed here, I'm wondering when the gravy train starts. I'm waiting...
being a faculty is easy. oh wait asians have saturated that market. bunch of mindless drones
It's not always about money.
I want to work.