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re: What is a job that pays extremely well but no one realizes it?
Posted on 9/2/25 at 5:51 am to Chastains
Posted on 9/2/25 at 5:51 am to Chastains
Tugboat Captains make $500--1000 a day. You can go from not knowing how to tie a knot to pushing barges in 3-4 years. Bad thing is you are gone from 1/2 to 2/3 year.
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Posted on 9/2/25 at 6:17 am to TigerBait2008
quote:The one in south Alabama, they make $22-25 a hour from May-Aug/Sept
Buckees
I wouldn't call this great but for a gas station, not bad
This post was edited on 9/2/25 at 6:19 am
Posted on 9/2/25 at 6:18 am to Chastains
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Think like a Ditch digger.
Could be specialized in finding gas lines or water mains etc.
Some very old cities they didnt keep very good records back in the day when installing pipes.
I vaguely remember being paid hourly to mark both ends of a water line and every ten feet of the length of it. It had to be done with a shovel. It was easy digging but would be very hard to work up an estimate if needed.
Posted on 9/2/25 at 7:01 am to Chastains
Registered Dental Hygienist. Doesn’t require a bachelors and they make over $65-$75/hr in a lot of places
Posted on 9/2/25 at 7:03 am to BigDropper
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Anesthesiologist assistant
$300k Baw…
Posted on 9/2/25 at 8:55 am to scrooster
man some of yall have a different fricking idea of what a good job is compared to me.
working nights is a great job? working 60+ hours a week is a good job? frick all that
and then half of yall just make up bullshite....or suck at understanding statistics, like the idiots saying plumbing or the dumbass OP
if you want a job that pays 40+ an hour and has tons of OT built in, enough to make ~150k a year after OT, plus great benefits.....then just become a plant operator. No need to go live in BFE and live on the road etc.
sounds miserable to me. but SCrooster there are plenty of jobs that make 150k+ working 40 hours a week plus same or better benefits that you mentioned. They dont hand them out to dumb people though.
working nights is a great job? working 60+ hours a week is a good job? frick all that
and then half of yall just make up bullshite....or suck at understanding statistics, like the idiots saying plumbing or the dumbass OP
if you want a job that pays 40+ an hour and has tons of OT built in, enough to make ~150k a year after OT, plus great benefits.....then just become a plant operator. No need to go live in BFE and live on the road etc.
sounds miserable to me. but SCrooster there are plenty of jobs that make 150k+ working 40 hours a week plus same or better benefits that you mentioned. They dont hand them out to dumb people though.
Posted on 9/2/25 at 8:56 am to lsu777
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man some of yall have a different fricking idea of what a good job is compared to me.
"good job is subjective, which means open to interpretation and the only person who it matters to is the one doing the work.
This post was edited on 9/2/25 at 9:04 am
Posted on 9/2/25 at 8:59 am to lsu777
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if you want a job that pays 40+ an hour and has tons of OT built in, enough to make ~150k a year after OT, plus great benefits.....then just become a plant operator.
Or just go to college for engineering, accounting, finance, or medicine
Posted on 9/2/25 at 9:00 am to RogerTheShrubber
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Oh lord. Mr Pretentious strikes again. "good job is subjective, which means open to interpretation and the only person who it matters to is the one doing the work.
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man some of yall have a different fricking idea of what a good job is compared to me.
So, exactly what he just said?
Posted on 9/2/25 at 9:00 am to Chastains
That's what his company charges for him on paper when a GC or client requires a statement of hourly rates to figure possible change orders for "time and material" with a 15% markup. That's not what he receives in his paycheck.
Posted on 9/2/25 at 9:01 am to billjamin
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The union ditch diggers up in the northeast can make pretty solid money but it’s absolute shite work.
Not sure if its still current and I suspect it is, but stevadores on the West Coast used to literally work maybe 2.5 hours a day and get two 4 hour callouts, for an 8 hour workday.
Making 40 an hour or so. They would pull up to the docks in their big arse trucks and corvettes, tie the ship up, and go home. Bill for 4 hours. Spend the in between time fishing or golfing.
Posted on 9/2/25 at 9:01 am to Mingo Was His NameO
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Or just go to college for engineering, accounting, finance, or medicine
no man....the ot told me the only way to wealth is becoming a plumber
Posted on 9/2/25 at 9:02 am to Mingo Was His NameO
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So, exactly what he just said?
He seems flabbergasted that people think differently than he. Mingo Jr
Posted on 9/2/25 at 9:03 am to RogerTheShrubber
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He seems flabbergasted that people think differently than he. Mingo Jr
Not everybody can be as learned as the alcoholic dock worker who makes up his life story for random internet persons
Posted on 9/2/25 at 9:04 am to RogerTheShrubber
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"good job is subjective, which means open to interpretation and the only person who it matters to is the one doing the work.
thats what i fricking said dumbass
of course its subjective and at 1 time when i was a broke arse pipefitter chasing OT all over...sure I thought....let me destroy my body so I can make more money was a good idea too. But luckily I was blessed with a brain and an amazing women to knock some sense into me.
according to you and the rest of the OT though I would have been much much better off staying blue collar and working my dick in the dirt never home for my kids...because "a real man does work with his hands"
Posted on 9/2/25 at 9:05 am to Mingo Was His NameO
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Not everybody can be as learned as the alcoholic dock worker who makes up his life story for random internet persons
Is your daddy keeping up with your townhouse association fees?
Posted on 9/2/25 at 9:06 am to lsu777
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of course its subjective and at 1 time when i was a broke arse pipefitter chasing OT all over..
At the time, it was a good job.
In retrospect you think differently, You changed.
Posted on 9/2/25 at 9:06 am to RogerTheShrubber
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Is your daddy keeping up with your townhouse association fees?
I pay the bills, he pays the mortgage.
Any updates on the fake college recruitment of your step granddaughter that doesn’t actually live with you?
Posted on 9/2/25 at 9:07 am to Mingo Was His NameO
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I pay the bills, he pays the mortgage.
Youre a kept man Mingo. I think "daddy" might be a sugar daddy.
Posted on 9/2/25 at 9:08 am to RogerTheShrubber
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He seems flabbergasted that people think differently than he. Mingo Jr
you judged all that by me saying we have different definitions of what a good job is?
look I dont think trading time and my health for money is a good trade off.
my definition for a good job is this....If I had kids that were gifted academically....would I want them to go in to that career?
if the answer is no then its not. Would you want granddaughter or whatever that is going to havard or where ever to do the jobs listed in this thread?
most of the jobs listed in this thread or for the sub100 iq crowd who took joy in being the class clown in HS. you can find them at 530 at the local 7-11 getting coffee
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