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re: What career path can a plant baw switch to?
Posted on 8/15/24 at 11:53 am to Redstickbaw
Posted on 8/15/24 at 11:53 am to Redstickbaw
NDE is interesting. Phased array UT, acoustic emissions, time of flight diffraction…go from shift to turn arounds.
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Posted on 8/15/24 at 11:55 am to Redstickbaw
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Yes operator
Get some project management certs and see if that gets you on the project team at the plant. Field knowledge is better than the experience your typical project manager has
Posted on 8/15/24 at 11:55 am to Paul Allen
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Medical device sales
Gotta be a good looking baw for that. Those female Dr.s ain’t frickin no 5’8” coonass.
Posted on 8/15/24 at 12:13 pm to Redstickbaw
Go into HES baw. You operators know the plant and operational practices the best.
Posted on 8/15/24 at 12:16 pm to Redstickbaw
there aren’t many jobs that pay that much money where you can sit around all day watching netflix and go out and turn a valve every now and then.
Posted on 8/15/24 at 12:19 pm to GumboPot
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I was going to mention instrumentation or corrosion tech. Those skills are always in high demand but they are not making 150K.
Of course they do. I work Maintenance at a major refinery and OPs and Maintenance all make virtually the same, around $200k w/ 700ish hrs of OT a year.
Posted on 8/15/24 at 12:20 pm to Redstickbaw
Staff. GTFO of the field and into an office.
Posted on 8/15/24 at 12:21 pm to JasonDBlaha
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Go to trade school for plumbing or electrician. Get your apprenticeship, work for somebody else for a few years, and then start your own business and the sky’s the limit.
Greatest fallacy ever told on this site. Not everybody is cut out for entrepreneurship.
Posted on 8/15/24 at 12:22 pm to Redstickbaw
150k? Dang, where you at? Do a lot of overtime? Top multi craft millwright pay at our mill is about 90k not including any overtime.
Posted on 8/15/24 at 12:24 pm to Redstickbaw
If you have personal skills, switch to the sales side for products into plants. Your experience will be a nice asset, but you have to have the people skills for that
Posted on 8/15/24 at 12:32 pm to Redstickbaw
Fireman. Starting out in the $60k range nowadays in bigger, metro markets. 24 on 48 off. Although some departments have migrated to 48-48. Plus all the fringes. It ain’t a bad gig.
Posted on 8/15/24 at 12:40 pm to Paul Allen
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Medical device sales
Easily make 550k a year.
I genuinely cannot tell if PA's schtick of giving 1998 era advice is a ruse or genuine
Posted on 8/15/24 at 1:02 pm to Redstickbaw
There’s jobs out there. My brother is a career plant worker. Works probably 60+ hours a week for 125k. He still doesn’t believe me that I made 95k working M-F less than 40 hours a week
Posted on 8/15/24 at 1:03 pm to Redstickbaw
I hear Wendy's is hiring.
Posted on 8/15/24 at 1:39 pm to Redstickbaw
I retired from a local plant about 3 years ago. Switched to industrial sales to have something to do(they pay for my insurance and I have a company truck). I make about the same as before, give or take, and I am much happier not dealing with all of the bs that goes along with plant life.
Posted on 8/15/24 at 1:46 pm to SmokinBurger
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Go into HES baw. You operators know the plant and operational practices the best.
not bad advice
but only manager level and above are making that salary in HSE
he may have to take a step down for a few years
also he will have to get used to everyone hating him
Posted on 8/15/24 at 1:52 pm to Saintsisit
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700ish hrs of OT a year.
That sounds brutal.
Posted on 8/15/24 at 1:58 pm to MrSpock
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Greatest fallacy ever told on this site. Not everybody is cut out for entrepreneurship.
So? Plumbers and electricians still make pretty good money if they’re unionized.
Posted on 8/15/24 at 2:04 pm to Redstickbaw
Please let me know!
Boiler operator here. Have my license.
Boiler operator here. Have my license.
Posted on 8/15/24 at 2:17 pm to Redstickbaw
Get into some sort of related technical compliance, training, inspector, or safety role. At least it’d get you off shift and into a gravy train office gig. You will have to do something tho. Contrary to what most operators think, people on ‘days’ do have to work.
It’s going to be tough completely switching industries without having to take a step (both in level and pay) back since you’d be pretty green.
I also heard roofers make $350,000/year
It’s going to be tough completely switching industries without having to take a step (both in level and pay) back since you’d be pretty green.
I also heard roofers make $350,000/year
This post was edited on 8/15/24 at 2:25 pm
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