re: Jobs that pay well but nah I'm good

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If you have a master's license and you're roughing in residential homes in the attic you completely missed the point of obtaining said license

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I'm currently looking at buying an electrical contractor and the guy with the masters license is the one that I'm the most concerned with. I'll bring him coffee every morning and a beer every evening as long as he keeps that license attached to the business.

Went and saw the Dermatologist yesterday. No problems with me, merely preventative maintenance.

I got to thinking how they get well-paid but they see some gory and nasty things. And as a doubler, a sizable percentage of that on otherwise nasty (to start with) people. Like Miss Vermont. So there’s one profession that is more suspect than you think, $600k per year or so be damned.

Rope Access Technicians at chemical plants in our area. They can have that.

Real oil field baw work.

I just like living too much and damn it seems uncomfortable to my senses to be covered in oil all of the time.

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Are you saying that basically some grunt wires up top and then the master electrician wires up the circuit board or something?

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There is almost zero “wiring” in the attics. Almost all of the connections are in the living/work space. Exceptions are air handlers, attic ventilators, water heaters and attic lights, but that can be knocked out at 8 AM. The rest of the attic electrical work is pulling cables, and that is grunt work. In theory, the licensed electrician would just need to inspect all of that and his helper would do it all. But in practice the turnover among helpers is so high that the electrician probably has to do it himself a lot.

I’m an electrical engineer, and when I was in high school and college I worked a lot as an electrician. I gave serious thought to doing that for a living. I liked the work. I guess the physical part would have gotten to be a lot by the time I was in my mid-forties, but by then I would have built up a company with enough employees to do that.

Plumbing

I’m not interested in wallowing in other peoples shite every day to unclog a septic line

Gynecologist is another one


It sounds cool until you realize that 90% of the vaginas you look in are probably disgusting

I don’t know how much they get paid but I would say the butthole checker at MEPS. If you are in the military or have been, you know what I’m talking about.

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I'm currently looking at buying an electrical contractor and the guy with the masters license is the one that I'm the most concerned with.

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What does he make per year?

Forensic accounting my degree never used a day in my life went to work for a scrap company 96 after graduation (spent 6 years active and reserve USMC went in to core in 89)
Started as a picker on a new shredder in Memphis tn now I run a scrap company 360 months in a row of only being as good as your last month.

The stories I could tell about the world through a dude picking up scrap and selling to me is off the charts:) you want to know America know a guy that scrounges around your trash for metal!!
Haha

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