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metalfaith
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Re: My future career [Re: Enkidu]
#27065312 - 11/30/20 07:40 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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GC is exactly what my end goal would be if I could go back. My good friend just got his license and is rolling in dough now.
If you can(hopefully you can, assuming here) manage to have good social skills, show up to work 99% of the time like the rest of us and not be high while working, you are in the top 10% of construction workers (IME). If you can manage money well, you move yourself up to the top 5% I'd ballpark. (Complete estimates, but sentiment remains).
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Enkidu
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Really good to know
Appreciate it
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Re: My future career [Re: Enkidu]
#27065355 - 11/30/20 08:00 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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Enkidu said: I studied psychology for a while
About 4 courses away from my bachelors
Got a girl who lives 6 hours and 2 states away pregnant so i moved and got into construction
Been working construction the last year and a half
Framing houses, doing additions and some interior and exterior work, remodeling and the like. Learned a lot, come a long way since i first started.
Got a new job doing kitchen and bathroom remodeling with a company that looks pretty damn good. Backed up 9 months with work even in these times. Good reviews. 4 guys working for the owners. Got their own showroom and do the design work and have the guys do the labor work. Ill be learning from them.
So i wana continue this work and get good at taking care of a home and get to know my way around all that.
Be useful for my future as far as home upkeep and doing some work and remodeling of my own.
Maybe ill finish my degree in the next 5 years or so and have that as an option for work.
So do you think the future of construction and this line of work can help me build a career and live a decent life?
I have one child and another on the way.
Gonna have a house for them to grow up in and some land to live on and hopefully live off a bit.
What do you older guys who been through some shit think?
I started in construction and stayed with it to get me through an engineering degree in electronics and electrical engineering. I have the degrees now and stuck with construction because I like it and the money is much better. I learned what I could from the best guys I could and opened my own business. I can easily make $200,000 to $300,000 if I work full-time and I work much more than that and I work alone. If I hired a couple guys then I could probably double it, or more. I also learned enough to rebuild my own house all by myself and saved a ton of money. I more than doubled the value since I got it and I'm not done yet. Then I will do it with the next house too.
The new generation is a bunch of little girls that don't like hard work so that means I have all the work that I could ever want with almost no competition.
The work is no fun when you're old though, just look at the old guys working around you and listen to how much they complain about aches and pains. Work hard, save your money, and start your own business before you get old.
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metalfaith
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You never said what type of construction, Loph.
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I'm an electrical contractor.
If I could start over then I might be a plumber or finish carpenter. I think plumbers and masons make the most money, but I really enjoy what I do. You get a good feeling of pride and contributing to society when you wire a house or factory, turn it on, and have everything working right off the bat. Especially when I troubleshoot something in 10 minutes that it took another electricians days to work on without even figuring it out. Besides the pay, I find the job to be very rewarding.
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Enkidu
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Yeah man that is the truth.
Thats why i left framing after 6 months. Was already taking a toll and guy i worked for was 60+ doing it all on roofs and everything...
Everyone tells me it takes a toll..
I like building big shit and would like experience in it but im already almost 30. Figured some time with a good company specializing in kitchen and bathroom remodels might be a good learning experience.
And everywhere i go i hear they cant find people to show up every day, let alone someone who knows what theyre doing..
Seems a dying breed
Thats why i figure i need to get my dwgree to fall back on too if i get too old and tired. Something more cushy then i still have the knowledge and skill to work on and upgrade wherever im living
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metalfaith said: Feevers, you trying to tell me that your friend leveraged a psych degree for a management position making 6 figures? I have never heard of such a thing. All I know about positions like that is you leverage your work experience and competence and they just want any BS degree as a placeholder (as in any Bachelor degree will do).
What you doing rotations on? Nursing? I saw you post something about that before and forgot to ask.
Yea, one’s a higher up for an insurance company making $110k, she had worked there part time in billing throughout school and leveraged the degree to move into management. Another got hired right out of school by Puma for marketing, they moved her out to Cali I believe and she’s making right around 100k, no other experience she was like 22. Another is a store manager at Whole Foods, made $200k+ last year. Obviously the degree didn’t get him the job but it does make you stand out compared to your peers in fields where most don’t have degrees. ABA therapy jobs around here start at $25-30 with a psych bachelors and many will pay for your grad school, admin jobs with those companies are mostly psych majors and they make bank. There are lots of lower level human services jobs with nonprofits where you can quickly move up to a group home/program director or admin staff and be making around 50k, because your competition is usually non-existent. Idk, it’s a whole different ballgame than things like pol sci; lit, language; library science etc degrees as long as you’re somewhat creative with it.
I’m pretty niche/specialized in my field so it’d be too easy to ID me if I said specifically what I do, not nursing though. I was considering NP for a while but it seems like they’re being pigeonholed into more just pill-pusher roles
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viraldrome said:
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metalfaith said: Fuck yeah dude. Construction is where it's at.
Psychology degree was what I wasted my time on too. What can you do with a Bachelors in Psych? Nothing. Waste of time.
Truth, if you are aren't taking it to the doctorate level there is no point in a Psychology degree.
Masters at the bare minimum would be needed for any psychology degree to be useful. The most you can do with just a psychology bachelor's degree is being a manager at a retail store. Once this economic recession and depression really seriously hits, construction is not going to be big anymore. Construction is one of the first industries to go during a recession and depression.
And how do you leave a girl that you got pregnant out of state but then you want a house for your kids...that you left? I'm not against men leaving women that they got pregnant because I believe the man has a choice too and unless the woman has a goddamn ring on her finger or a fucking marriage certificate she is sort of asking for it anyway, but don't you just think that's a little bit fucked up? I'm not trying to be a dick or anything. Like if you're going to leave the girl that you got pregnant then shouldn't you just leave the children behind also?
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She wanted me to leave. She acts absolutely insane when shes pregnant. Fuck off because you dont know shit about the situations. I told her i wanted to stay and make things work and even now i would mske things work so fuck you
And i would never leave my kids you piece of shit
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Re: My future career [Re: Enkidu]
#27065817 - 12/01/20 06:14 AM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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There's no shame in working construction or the like. And you get to leave work behind when work-hours are finished, as there's nothing to bring home in the form of stress or extra work on your own time. Which gives you more time for kids and family, i.e. all the stuff that really matters.
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Enkidu
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Re: My future career [Re: Enkidu]
#27065821 - 12/01/20 06:17 AM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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Yeah im sorry but that shit pissed me the fuck off. Like you know me or a single fucking thing about me or any of my family or what ive been through and you want to talk shit and judge and tell me to leave my kids.
Get the fuck out of here.
You obviously dont have kids or if you do and you say some shit like that then youre garbage
I would do absolutely anything for mine
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Re: My future career [Re: Enkidu]
#27066530 - 12/01/20 02:51 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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Enkidu said: She wanted me to leave. She acts absolutely insane when shes pregnant. Fuck off because you dont know shit about the situations. I told her i wanted to stay and make things work and even now i would mske things work so fuck you
And i would never leave my kids you piece of shit
You NEVER explained this in the op dude so how about YOU fuck off??? You can't just leave information out and then get mad at me for saying something about something that's not the way that it was. You can just take back everything I said because now I know the bitch wanted you to leave.
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Re: My future career [Re: Enkidu]
#27066543 - 12/01/20 02:56 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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Enkidu said: Got a girl who lives 6 hours and 2 states away pregnant so i moved and got into construction
This makes no fucking sense to the comment you said to me previously. This sentence makes it sound like you left the girl because you accidentally got her pregnant. Nowhere did you state that you left her because she wanted you to fucking leave. Did you just finish first grade reading comprehension? Go edit your original post and add the fact that the bitch told you to leave because the way it is right now it just sounds like you left because you got a girl pregnant and didn't want to be a dad.
God I'm so glad I'm not heterosexual having to deal with fucking kids and bitches.
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Re: My future career [Re: Enkidu]
#27066548 - 12/01/20 03:01 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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Enkidu said: Yeah im sorry but that shit pissed me the fuck off. Like you know me or a single fucking thing about me or any of my family or what ive been through and you want to talk shit and judge and tell me to leave my kids.
Get the fuck out of here.
You obviously dont have kids or if you do and you say some shit like that then youre garbage
I would do absolutely anything for mine
Go back to fucking first grade and take reading comprehension. And you need to edit your original post and explain that the girl wanted you to leave. Your fucking heterosexual problems are fucking retarded. Next time you get a bitch pregnant make sure you're actually married to her so she can't tell you to fucking leave. Fucking God damn heterosexual problems. People like you are why the world is so fucked up.
You are right, I don't know shit about your life so it is your job to make sure you include all pertinent information in the original post.
I wasn't even trying to be a dick in my first post but now you've pissed me off so now I'm going to be a dick to you. Don't get fucking bitches pregnant unless you're fucking married to them.
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I'd finish the degree, you'll probably get a pay bump from your employer for it. Counter and cabinetry work pays very well for experts at it. I bet the older guys at the top of small company doing the actual measurements and installs make almost 100k depending on where you live.
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Enkidu
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Re: My future career [Re: Ice9]
#27066671 - 12/01/20 04:16 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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Oh ok my fault bro
No hard feelings "outsideofmymind"
No i got her pregnant so i moved so i could take care of my family. Been trying to make it work but its been a struggle as most things are
"Dont get em pregnant unless youre married"
Thats good advice
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Re: My future career [Re: Enkidu]
#27066777 - 12/01/20 05:10 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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Apology accepted. I'm sorry myself for getting all aggro. I kind of had a bad trip on Friday night and I've had a tiny tiny bit of anxiety since then.
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Enkidu
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No its all good bro, just a miscommunication that rubbed us both the wrong way
It happens
Whatd ya take ?
I havent been tripping much lately but recently had a great mushroom trip and a great lsd trip.
The L sent me pretty deep down the rabbit hole
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Re: My future career [Re: Enkidu]
#27066844 - 12/01/20 05:49 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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I only took 2.15 grams of golden teachers. Ever since I had a really strong 200 microgram trip on August 5th lower doses have been affecting me more strongly. Earlier in the year I could easily take an eighth but ever since that overly strong 200 microgram trip, I have needed lower doses to get my rocks off. Can a strong acid trip open up pathways in the brain to make it so you don't need High dosages anymore to get off?
I like acid better than shrooms because shrooms are just an emotional mind fuck where with acid I find to be a lot more predictable and a lot more clear-headed. I've actually never had a bad trip with acid, just an overly strong one which I did not consider a bad trip. The only time I had a bad trip on acid was the first time I did it with an old friend and I told her to turn off her damn phone before we started tripping but she left the damn thing on and she was texting her stupid boyfriend and then she called him and said something stupid to him so then he drove over to where we were and he ruined our trip. But that literally was not my fault and I only trip solo now.
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Enkidu
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I had a period where i over did it a bit and that shit kinda ruined every trip i had after for a while
I recently came off a long fucking break since ive been so damn busy
I think it really helped me kinda repair and get ready again
I was tripping and it just wasnt doing it for me like it use to
Mainly mushrooms, always healing and therapeutic and beyond beneficial, then it was like every trip was difficult and judt not giving me the benefits i came to love and appreciate from the psyches
Coming off that break i ate 5g recently and it was right back like it use to be
Great trip. Picture perfect of what i use to experience.
Then i took about 200-250 ug of lsd over this break, was pretty damn good
For me mushrooms have always been more beneficial where L sometimes left me without something "good"
Had a time i was tripping regular eith it and it was a blast... But idk. That bad trip changed things a bit for me... Made things hit a bit harder and weirder in ways that seemed borderline destructive
I found L to be a bit closer to ,cant think of the word, ill come back
Disassociative type of deal
Where mushrooms always left me feeling much more grounded in reality
Maybe take a break or tone it down a bit
Wise man once told me no harm in that. Always there to come back to...
I found smoking weed didnt always help either and taking a break there let my mind sort of regain its rigid shape and structure
Rambling but maybe some of that might help
Also, after my difficult trip on dmt then a huge fucking one on mushrooms everything hit me harder.
Took 2g following that at a festival and i needed to fucking go hide in my tent cause it was bringing on all that powerful shit full effect from the other trips
Dmt first time fucked me up a bit. 200g fresh mushrooms after that really hit me hard beyond measure. Ptsd type of shit.
But you get through it and you're stronger
Took a break and sorted out a lot of shit in life and became a much better person. Took care of business in the real world outside my own party if you know what i mean
Get stronger and better, took a breather and relaxed from it... Seemed to be good for me
Ramble on
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