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So for anything that ACTUALLY PAYS good/decent money, you're going to have to put in the time and effort and sacrifice to make/get it.
I mean... people "back in the day" or who are (now retired) wealthy/well off/rich put in the work and "paid their dues" so to sense for that kind of pay/job. So why shouldn't we have to?
However there are other jobs that require hours that are not 9-5... think 12am - 12pm (joking lol) of doctors in residency or nurses (7am-7pm)... would you prefer those hours? (lol)
Laborers work very difficult and odd hours, think construction workers, oil rig guys, etc
Yup sounds about ( Equivalent)
I spend all my 4 years ( actually 5 years) in college and soon realized all I wanted was a regular 9 to 5 job
I wonder if it makes sense to invest that much time in a degree if thats really all you want?
I'm not exactly sure I am following this, but if I didn't have the degree, I wouldn't have the 9-5 job that I love!!
Depends on where/what you want your 9-5 job to be? You're going to work specified hours with whatever job you get and a college degree has very little bearing on that.
I have a Masters Degree and work a "regular 9 to 5 job" and I have high school graduates that work for me that also work a "regular 9 to 5 job".
The hours you want to work are irrelevant to your degree, or lack there of. What do you want to DO during those hours? If you are ok spending those hours working in a plant on an assembly line, nope, no degree needed. If you want to work in an office somewhere doing office work, a degree will help.
If you want good pay with predictable hours, then I fully concur that a degree is the way to go.
That's becoming my biggest goal to accomplish before fifty.
After that, find something easy, work until seventy, and quietly crash out some place for the rest of my days.
I just aspire to not be one of these seventy year old, bull haulers still juggling a 1099 gig because they got "trapped" in this profession.
A good/practical degree from a good school... as long as you put in the OBVIOUS requisite effort, attend recruiting sessions, internships, etc will generally lead to a good paying job
Think something along the lines of ~$20/hour and up starting and go from there with fairly good hours for a good work/life balance
A good/practical degree from a good school... as long as you put in the OBVIOUS requisite effort, attend recruiting sessions, internships, etc will generally lead to a good paying job
Think something along the lines of ~$20/hour and up starting and go from there with fairly good hours for a good work/life balance
In essence, sometimes more than just education is required to succeed.
For someone like myself who continually reverts back to social isolation after having attempted to take steps to better myself in that regard, I could see why myself and others are the way we are.
That said, I'm still quite certain acquired education and skills alone will help me along in attempts at getting into other fields.
But high paying careers entailing a lot of personal contact on an every day basis, nope.
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