I work a shitty warehouse job that will take me 5-10 years to be making 20+ an hour.
I need to move up and get a job that actually allows me to save money and improve my standard of living (own a home, own a new car, save for retirement etc.)
I have family that work in the oil patch and dont think it would be to difficult to get hired as a roughneck.
The starting pay for a roughneck is around 50k a year.
Before I commit to that idea i figured id ask if there's anything practical i can go to school for like I.T., carpentry, electrician, just anything that makes good money and is in demand.
Help me out bros
Redpilled careers/trades?
wrong board friend
Become a professional young boy fondler. Good pay
Get your A&P license. Huge shortage, and pay tops out at $120k at the majors, UPS, or FedEx. Starting pay at mt company is $34/hr.
Gay affluence is a myth.
Go for electrician.
Oil industry is too unstable. 2 modes: lot of work for a while or massive layoffs. Good money, but bad as long term career.
> t. 10+ yrs in oil industry
Electrician is probably one of the best trades, my dad was one for decades. Plenty of work, relatively clean (as opposed to plumbing), just sometimes in a hot attic on a 90 degree day.
I'm an accountant though, started at 60k, lots of growth potential. I would recommend it.
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oil m8 good pay good hours outside all day . mind you, you will be out there with a bunch of room temperature IQ retards
Don't waste your life in a warehouse doing shit work for shit pay. Go and find a trade you like and make good money doing the same shit work or maybe better work. You will always be poor if you work in a warehouse or manufacturing job.
Non union is the way to go in physically demanding skilled trades on and off the water. If you pull your own weight and that of others YOU WILL be fast tracked to higher pay. And when you're presents is required for the days work to be done don't just hold your fucking tongue about what you KNOW YOU'RE WORTH. Otherwise you're an actual bitch and pretty much deserve to get stepped on
Your pic is the answer.
I'm 27, spent 6 years on drilling rigs. Great money and time off.
I just got into coiled tubing which is way more money for less work.
My advice is get in the oilfield, especially the completion or production side.
I second this.
t. Alberta Oilfag, day 12 on location
the railroad is breddy gud so far
t. new hire conductor almost done training
Pest Control
Who you working for? I'm currently at a Calgary owned company run by coonasses in Louisiana.
t. Dale Gribbel
ITT: Brainlets who do peasant work and will be unable to get out of bed without pain by the time they're 45.
Valuing a long life over a full life is a leftist ideal, son.
Is it really that bad?
Seems like the money would cancel out the negatives.
that is the tiniest AK i've ever seen wtf
They're probably lazy pussys that their whole crew can't stand.
Oilfield is where it's at.
he's just a big guy
no, i'm 6'3 and my AK's aren't even that small, it's small even in relation to that dead nigger and the grass around them
Look at the size of his head versus the niggers head.
the nigger has no head left
IT is OK, but it's a lot easier to be a plumber or electrician.
Trying to get my cisco CCNA right now and want to kms.
>A&P
What the fuck is an A&P license
Well, I mean the jaw and forehead are still there. Compare that part.
>Non union is the way to go in physically demanding skilled trades
Don't listen to this fucking kike
Air frame and Plant. Aircraft mechanics. Pretty hard to get into without military experience.
Literally anything maritime.
Lo fucking L take a look at union vs. non union pay scale by all means OP don’t get paid more than you’re worthz
Apply for the Border Patrol. Nothing more redpilled than chasing down wetbacks. And in 6 or so years you can break 100k. Only down side is if you get stuck at a shitty station.
Plumber
Learn to drive a truck and move to West Texas. Six figures for hard working truck drivers.
He's either a kike or some smoothbrained qboomer that had a bad rep or something
Seriously, I don't get all the union hate around here, if you can excise all the shitlibbery unions are the best way to stick it to the kikes
Had an ex-coworker who worked in a union shop. He told me one time he finished his work early and went around the plant looking for things to do and help out, then he got stopped by the union boss, “that’s not your fucking job, go home”. Unions reward inefficiency.
Union guys often get far fewer hours.
I dropped out of retail to start my own mushroom farm
Well I moved out of retail into janitorial work at a hospital and decided either I work for my self or I jump into the compactor one day
I'm only bringing in about 60k/yr so far but we're only 2 years in and I just set up 2 racks to try out some hydroponics for microgreens
This sounds like the opening line of a bad heist movie
Nice try all you turds.
1. No company gives a shit about YOU.
2. No matter how you spin it, you’re gonna get fucked because they will pay you more per hour yet cut your benefits.
3. When it’s time and you get sick, guess what?
Your “company “ doesn’t give 2 shits.
People, you need to start using your companies for your benefit. If you find another job with a better deal—— jump on it and get the better deal. Your company would fire you in a second just to make your boss look better.
>oil money cancel the negative
good: money. i make about $60/hr.
bad: supply & demand. oil goes down, so does everything out there (wages & number of positions)
Invest in a multi-industry career thats not driven by jewish meddling
The unions are nothing more than organized labor crime.
They take YOUR money and promise solid wages and a life.
All that happens is that your union saps your money to pay for the food union fat fucks.
I actually had one fo my friends try to talk me out of it, he said "that's how guys like you become drug lords"
Dead ass serious too, he said one day before I quit my job to do the farm full time someone is going to talk me into trying to grow magic mushrooms and then I'll be the next Escobar
Someone did eventually talk me into growing psychedelics but I didnt put the effort into propagating enough to sell them
Oilfield in on the up now, so probably at least 10 years until another devastating crash. I'm sure everyone will tell you this when you start, but fucking listen to them: save your ducats. 2015 fucking sucked.
Instead of more life, get more out of life. And if you take care of yourself you can last decades. I know 70 year olds still in the welding trade. No pain, no hearing loss.
I’m 20yo union carpenter apprentice. Currently I’m making $21 hourly wage, $46 with benefits included. I cost $46 to employ. I get a lot of overtime, I work usually 45 hours a week but being laid off sucks. I went to college for a couple semesters and studied engineering. I’d recommend college for people with more passion and intellect. I’d rather receive my money now and work towards a pension+annuity while I decide what I really want to do for a career/primary income
Yeah the truth of the matter is, a company is a institutional machine that operates on 1 principal only. Make money, and as much as possible.
You should operate on the same principal when dealing with them because otherwise the company with its machine will use you up and spit you out.
Its only when both sides are equally jews, that a fair deal to both sides can be met. A company will never give you a god damned cent more than what they have to, to keep you producing.
Shut the fuck up you pleb. Go work for nigger scab wages if you like.
Listen to this guy, electricians are pretty much "recession proof" since it will always be a need, people will always need power. Just don't get into a lot of debt to get it.
Accounting
What type of stuff do you typically work on? I have a neighbor that builds custom furniture out of his garage and it looks comfy as fuck.
>no mention of mining
Move to northern Nevada and work on Carlin trend, specifically underground. Can be claustrophobic at times, but you see shit that 99.99% of people on Earth never get to see.
we have an industry secret: it crashes every other presidential election.
so maybe a solid 4.5 yrs max.
Truth, as an employee
Time = Money
And you've only got a
certain amount of hours
I've thought about it. I hope that some of my education on robotics and manufacturing will be able to be used in the kind of job, otherwise I'll probably get a job at Tesla or Panasonic working on their robotic systems.
I work in open pit and love the big gear but eventually want to get into underground work, underground and surface miners are like sworn enemies and most surface people I talk to say I'm crazy but a lot of large open pit mines are nearing depletion and the future is in underground, have you had any people come over? What would be a good role to aim for?
Nah I first worked renovating a public college library, we got shipments of wood acoustic panels from Switzerland among other things like sheathing with plywood. My other 2 jobs were retail stores, all metal studs and sheetrocking. The buildings were hollow, just an empty warehouse. I only do commercial, there are almost always other trades working on the job site with us. There are various carpenters though...cement workers, millwork, furniture work...etc.
Ahh thats nifty. Sounds like a good paying job you've got.
Yeah I see alot of O&G folk in this bread and alot of O&G people come to work in mining when the times get tough ie 2015 as they're somewhat similar. Pay is real good and mining companies treat you better than O&G companies in my experience (emphasis on safety, strict MSHA regulations etc.)
Yeah expect to see alot of open pit mines go underground in the near future since grades are depleting at the surface so you'd have to go underground to get better ore. I've met people who've come over from South Africa (mainly engineers and geo's), but none from Australia although I'm sure they'll hire you with the right experience. Mining engineers run the whole thing basically so that'd be a position to aim for if you've got the schooling. If not, go for a diesel mechanic. They make a shitload, and are desperately needed at every mine in the states in some capacity. Working on those huge 797s haul trucks also looks pretty cool
>Tfw want to be an illustrator/character designer in the gaming industry
>especially since gamergate and all the SJW bs that came along with it
>tfw can never justify myself trying to pursue it since it is ''art'' after all
>constantly think of just just saying fuck it and doing something in demand and pays instead
>dreams vs financial
Its a feely feel anons. Not sure wat do
The video game industry is pretty rough because there is so many people who want to work in the industry that it depresses the wages a lot, and they know they can overwork the fuck out of you because you really give a shit.
Art is also important user.
>depresses the wages a lot.
This.
Its also hard to pursue it knowing that you can just get a trade job like some wise anons here are doing, and make almost 40-50k right off the bat with opportunities to make way more.
You probably don't have the mental strength for trades I'm 24 and run heavy equipment and you won't beileve the mind games boomers play
Ok?
Crikey. A&P = "airframe & powerplant" mechanic. You work on aircraft, structures, systems and engines.
U.S. military... use it as a VOTECH school, get yer tickets and move on.
Don’t be a roughneck
Atleast get into midstream or coiled tubing/ wireline or some other after process
T. Tank/pump construction supervisor
I'll name a few.
Security
Law Enforcement
Emt/fire
Military
Any tech college science degree job.
IT
You really get to see what the world is really about in these fields. This is just a broad spectrum. The more specific and advanced stuff takes off from there. Imagine working IT for for the state department in some shithole war torn country making six figures. That will wake you up.
I'm thinking about being some sort of biologist or environmental scientist. Is this a redpilled career?
welders
oil riggers
hog farmers
diesel mechanics
dock workers
salt miners
This guy knows what’s up. First year will be rough as you will be a worm and not have a fucking clue what is going on. You’ll still be a fucking worm for a long time but the patch is so ate up with worms that most people won’t realize is. Money is good, there’s nowhere near the political correctness of other industries.
Canada’s oilfield has gone to shit. America’s is going strong.
so close to quints though
If he was done with his work then there is no point in him being there.
I don't get it? Your friend was mad that he didn't have to work that was not his?
That is the whole point of unions you idiot. To make sure the workers are not overworked, and to negotiate pay.
>Yeah go spend 48 weeks of the year away from your life and you will make money!
Trucking is shit and will be a dead industry by 2030.