Just heard a wal-mart commercial on the xm this am they pay 80k for truck drivers!
[QUOTE=Geordie;190566]I am working as a treatment/wastewater operator for a large utility. The state licenses are easy to get and no degree required. Plenty of well paying jobs, with a lot of baby boomers retiring. A few more years and I am going to retire and ship out a few months a year for fun. Good luck[/QUOTE]
These are good jobs in my neck of the woods. Also potable water. Pumps, valves, systems, fixing stuff… most engineers, and some deck apes already know a lot of it.
[QUOTE=rshrew;190734]Just heard a wal-mart commercial on the xm this am they pay 80k for truck drivers![/QUOTE]
If you have CDL-A with some experience, extra endorsements, and clean driving record you can land a job in a few days. Just look at the classifieds or job search websites. If you sign a contract with one of the bigger companies they will even pay for the school.
[QUOTE=c.captain;190708]truck driving! why has nobody mentioned driving truck? now how many minutes will it take before we discover that DSD is an expert on truckdriving and Rooshins by offering us his infinite wisdom?[/QUOTE]
Less than 24 hours.
[QUOTE=c.captain;190708]truck driving! why has nobody mentioned driving truck?
I have the answers here
- because they are DRUNKEN Rooshins
- because they are STOOPID Rooshins
- because they are ASSHOLE Rooshins
now how many minutes will it take before we discover that DSD is an expert on truckdriving and Rooshins by offering us his infinite wisdom?[/QUOTE]
In Russia, you don’t drive truck, truck drives [I]you![/I]
I kinda feel like typing and posting tonight. 
Worked about 2.5 hours made $160.00 cash so feeling alright.
Always working on Plan B and C. Hell the Union Hall in Wilmington is my Plan B. I retired some ten years ago and partied till I was bored. Now I deal with employers who despise my independence. You would think someone who wants to work would be appreciated but it is too threatening to the culture of fear. They play us against each other so reply in kind. Have another job so you can tell them to shove it.
[QUOTE=DeepSeaDiver;190743]I kinda feel like typing and posting tonight. Worked about 2.5 hours made $160.00 cash so feeling alright.[/QUOTE]
You must be as ugly as you are stupid to have only sucked $160.00 worth of dick in two and a half hours.
[QUOTE=Traitor Yankee;190754]You must be as ugly as you are stupid to have only sucked $160.00 worth of dick in two and a half hours.[/QUOTE]
Why are people even acknowledging or responding to him? Children prefer egative reinforcement to no reinforcmention at all.
This is the deal, you have to get your own and be successful at it. That way you are spreading out your income streams. When you are working for others in a full-time w2 position and something changes on their part you might be on the outside looking in. laid off, let go, replaced, etc. and that’s out of your control.
When you have your own you have a better chance of positioning yourself of always being on the inside and looking out. Another thing is it’s my opinion to start a type of business that has wide open faucets, not just a couple of clients in the business arena you choose. Remember doctors, lawyers, salespeople, teachers, bankers, manufacturing people, hair stylists, plumber’s, carpenters, electricians, photographer, bookkeepers, musicians and so on all have money and their money is as green as the other guys. You just have to figure out how to get some of it? So basically again spread it out. Look out the window and try to figure out how you can do business with the person across the street, down the street, in the next town, on the other pier, in the other harbor, and that person’s family or friends. Do any of you follow or listen to Grant Cardone?
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[QUOTE=Traitor Yankee;190754]You must be as ugly as you are stupid to have only sucked $160.00 worth of dick in two and a half hours.[/QUOTE]
Looks like thats how you think? (Sad) I would bet $100.00 your browser history is full of it.
[QUOTE=Nelson Delmar;190735]These are good jobs in my neck of the woods. Also potable water. Pumps, valves, systems, fixing stuff… most engineers, and some deck apes already know a lot of it.[/QUOTE]
I feel very confident I can handle about anything. Of course I’ll need my C/E for the technical stuff, I suppose the chief would want his crew. I also need the C/M, he’ll want his bos’n and daymen…
Being able to handle or perform in another career is always good. My main worry is finding something that pays enough to match the lifestyle that, we as mariners, have grown accustomed to.
I think my plan B is going to be to move to NYC, get a job as a bartender, where a drunken old Irish bartender teaches me all his tricks and throws in his own proverbs. Maybe afterwards, go to Jamaica and work there, in hopes of landing a rich old white lady to set me up with my own bar back in NYC.
[QUOTE=rshrew;190734]Just heard a wal-mart commercial on the xm this am they pay 80k for truck drivers![/QUOTE]
I think of this song sometimes when I get the ship in a tight spot: Give me 40 acres and I’ll turn this rig around.
[video=youtube_share;qDxVJ471hyg]http://youtu.be/qDxVJ471hyg[/video]
Nice song. Reminds me of this:
[QUOTE=ForkandBlade;190763]Being able to handle or perform in another career is always good. My main worry is finding something that pays enough to match the lifestyle that, we as mariners, have grown accustomed to.
I think my plan B is going to be to move to NYC, get a job as a bartender, where a drunken old Irish bartender teaches me all his tricks and throws in his own proverbs. Maybe afterwards, go to Jamaica and work there, in hopes of landing a rich old white lady to set me up with my own bar back in NYC. :)[/QUOTE]
Cocktails and dreams?!? I love that place!!
[QUOTE=Kennebec Captain;190764]I think of this song sometimes when I get the ship in a tight spot: Give me 40 acres and I’ll turn this rig around[/QUOTE]
I’ll see your 40 acres and raise you two Wolfcreek Passes
forgot I had to drive through Tucson to Tucumcari and Tehachapi to Tonapah
[QUOTE=ForkandBlade;190763]Being able to handle or perform in another career is always good. My main worry is finding something that pays enough to match the lifestyle that, we as mariners, have grown accustomed to.
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I work for the government. I’ve never had that problem. I could work as a manager at McD’s and make roughly the same.
I’d miss the comsubs, though.