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re: What is a job that pays extremely well but no one realizes it?
Posted on 9/1/25 at 9:04 pm to Sponge
Posted on 9/1/25 at 9:04 pm to Sponge
I agree with those stats. Once you figure in the CRNAs that work day surgery/ surgical centers 4.5 days a week, no call, no weekends or holidays. As compared to those that work all shifts, holidays or call and do labor epidurals without anesthesiologists involved. The latter group is where the money is made. $250-300k is not uncommon.
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Posted on 9/1/25 at 9:10 pm to Pax Regis
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I’ll go nurse anesthetist. They can make $150k to $200k or more and don’t even have an MD
My son just started nursing school with intentions of becoming a CRNA. My wife works at a hospital and looked into pay and here it pay $175 per hour with overtime after 8 hours per day. If someone works a regular 8 hr days, 40 hours a week thats 2,080 hours per year, thats $364,000 without overtime. Not bad but schooling is long, 4 years of nursing school. Minimum of 12 months experience in CCU, ICU department then apply to CRNA school, if you make it in then its 3 more years of school and you can't work.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 9:10 pm to Chastains
People that don't live around ports or navigable waterways would probably be surprised at what ship pilots make.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 9:20 pm to YOURADHERE
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$140k this year. That’s damn solid money.
Or as I call it, August.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 9:28 pm to dek81572
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My son just started nursing school with intentions of becoming a CRNA. My wife works at a hospital and looked into pay and here it pay $175 per hour with overtime after 8 hours per day. If someone works a regular 8 hr days, 40 hours a week thats 2,080 hours per year, thats $364,000 without overtime. Not bad but schooling is long, 4 years of nursing school. Minimum of 12 months experience in CCU, ICU department then apply to CRNA school, if you make it in then its 3 more years of school and you can't work.
Wasn’t long ago where you could go to nursing school and become an RN with an Associate’s degree. Work in ICU for 2 years Then get into CRNA school.
I personally know 2 people that took that exact same route. They make bank.
One of them contracts themselves out. That way they never on call, no holidays and no weekends.
Again, they make bank.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 9:33 pm to UptownJoeBrown
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Maybe a sewer guy.
Ed Norton looked pretty poor to me.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 9:36 pm to Chastains
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pays extremely well
quote:wat
Guy makes $46/hr
Posted on 9/1/25 at 9:36 pm to Chastains
Insurance sales...by year 5 at 40 hrs a week should be 100k..if you stsrt at age 26 thats great money by age 31..
Posted on 9/1/25 at 9:37 pm to Chastains
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Pretty easy
If ditch digging were that easy, the supply of ditch diggers would have already drove the wage down.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 9:41 pm to Chastains
Perfusionist.
Requires a BS and a 2-year grad program
Requires a BS and a 2-year grad program
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The average salary for a perfusionist is $341,708 per year in the United States
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What is a Cardiovascular Perfusionist?
The job that operates the heart-lung machine, and other cardiopulmonary bypass equipment used during surgery, is a perfusionist. A perfusionist manages the machine that keeps a patient alive by oxygenating their blood and supporting circulation while the surgeon operates on their heart. They are responsible for initiating, maintaining, and monitoring the complex extracorporeal equipment used in procedures like open-heart surgery, as well as devices such as ventricular assist devices (VADs) and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO)
Posted on 9/1/25 at 9:42 pm to Chastains
For the ladies without degrees, half decent account managers at insurance agencies easily knock down 6 figures.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 9:42 pm to SoDakHawk
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For this exercise let's discuss those careers where you get paid but can do it on 40 hours or less. Those are great jobs.
Sheeeeesh .... you kids.
You just don't get it, do you.
$150k+ with those benefits at that age is great money .... especially here.
$150k+ working only 40 hrs a week .... you want to ride a unicorn to work everyday as well I suppose?
Do you honestly believe that there are a ton of jobs out there, where you only work 40 hours a week, 9-5, knocking down a buck fifty plus?
My Son is 26. He just hit $150k in sales ... he works his arse off on the road repping a trucking company. 40k miles a year as a sales rep servicing existing clients and bringing-in new business ... and he loves it.
He'll be a regional manager by the time he's 30 and a VP by the time he's 40 and each time his pay will go up exponentially.
Hard work, long hours is how you move up when you're young. First to arrive, last to leave. Be good at what you do. Doesn't matter if you're a ditch digger or an investment banker.
But some of you young guys think you know everything apparently. You'll learn the hard way ... there's no easy path to financial success.
For you other young guys in your 20s reading this, working hard, ... keep up the good work. It'll pay off. Ignore the get rich quick scheming crowd.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 9:42 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
quote:When is that going to be replaced by AI?
Perfusionist
Posted on 9/1/25 at 9:44 pm to East Coast Band
quote:true , but the work can be very unsteady . Rich family needs to cut back, there goes their plane and your job.
Private pilot
Posted on 9/1/25 at 9:45 pm to scrooster
lol.‘you do know that’s not guaranteed.
It’s sales….
It’s sales….
Posted on 9/1/25 at 9:46 pm to scrooster
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$150k+ working only 40 hrs a week .... you want to ride a unicorn to work everyday as well I suppose?
Damn, what a sad way to live
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Do you honestly believe that there are a ton of jobs out there, where you only work 40 hours a week, 9-5, knocking down a buck fifty plus?
Uh, yeah. And they aren’t hourly and come with 4 or 5 weeks of PTO
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My Son is 26. He just hit $150k in sales
HIGHLY doubt it, but it’s possible
Posted on 9/1/25 at 9:47 pm to Chastains
You mean someone who is certified to drive the equipment that digs ditches?
I am pretty sure there are machines available, that are able to be operated like drones.. From inside an office looking at a screen. I have to think once those machines cost less it will be more common and they will start paying those people a salary, but it will still be a decent salary, but there are jobs like pipe design that someone can make good money when they are in high demand. The problem with that is when its not in high demand there are less jobs available so its not steady.
I know a barber who owns his own shop and drives a school bus. The school bus gig is 1.5 hrs in the morning and 1 hrs after lunch. Having the insurance alone.. At one time he said it saved him $800 a month, might be more today. It earns him a pretty good living.
I am pretty sure there are machines available, that are able to be operated like drones.. From inside an office looking at a screen. I have to think once those machines cost less it will be more common and they will start paying those people a salary, but it will still be a decent salary, but there are jobs like pipe design that someone can make good money when they are in high demand. The problem with that is when its not in high demand there are less jobs available so its not steady.
I know a barber who owns his own shop and drives a school bus. The school bus gig is 1.5 hrs in the morning and 1 hrs after lunch. Having the insurance alone.. At one time he said it saved him $800 a month, might be more today. It earns him a pretty good living.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 9:47 pm to Jake88
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When is that going to be replaced by AI?
Probably not anytime soon.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 9:49 pm to Chastains
My brother is a truck driver. Goes around to chicken farms around Alabama & Georgia 5 nights a week to pick up loads of live chickens and haul them to the processing plant. He’s been doing this for close to 20 years. He made almost $110 last year.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 9:50 pm to Darth_Vader
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My brother is a truck driver. Goes around to chicken farms around Alabama & Georgia 5 nights a week to pick up loads of live chickens and haul them to the processing plant. He’s been doing this for close to 20 years. He made almost $110 last year
So he has a miserable job that doesn’t pay extremely well? Thanks for your contribution to the thread
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