Sure, if theres lots of commercial work around, especially data centers and the
like the demand will be up.I also suspect the average grunt doesn't make much.
I know a guy who owns a fire sprinkler business. His sprinkler fitters make
peanuts, $10-$15 an hour. The owner is rolling in the dough...
-Curt
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Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT Student Loans, was Stealers
That probably depends where you live. A friend of mine has been a
commercial electrician working for the same company for 20 years
no and gets paid less then $20 an hour.
Manfred
Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote:
> If I could go back and talk sense to myself I'd tell 18yo me to become a
> commercial electrician. Where I work we pay outrageous money to the guys who
> wire our machine rooms. One guy we use a lot is about 45, owns his own outfit
> with I think 3 or 4 trucks, he built it up over about 10 years from just
> doing his own thing to where he is now. He doesn't want/need to grow and
> plans to retire in about 10 years, sell the business for a million or more
> and hunt full time...
> -Curt
>
> From: Kyle Arola via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
> Cc: Kyle Arola <kylearola1...@gmail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2017 6:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT Student Loans, was Stealers
>
> You know the government is always looking for the next\new way to bind
> people to the system and make them tax paying wage slaves. Student loans
> and the college requirement is just the latest in a long line of scandalous
> rip offs.
>
> I used to tell young men to join the military, no more. Now I suggest trade
> school, welders, auto mechanics, plumbers, a.c. tech's. All great paying
> jobs where they can remain debt free and live within their means.
>
> All in all, if my job at the University of Florida was not paying for
> school, I would not be attending.
>
> Take the Red pill and join the masculine side. It is not for everyone, but
> apparently from what I read in these emails, most of you men are already
> part\mostly there.
>
> Kyle
>
> On Jan 18, 2017 4:56 PM, "Scott Ritchey via Mercedes" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
> wrote:
>
> True that. Student loans are not discharged by bankruptcy. Also, speaking
> from firsthand experience (idiot grandson#2) these loans are handed out
> with no regard for scholastic ability or likelihood of repayment. The
> interest rates are obscene (3.76-6.31%) for today's environment. And these
> loans are guaranteed by the government (that's us) so the lenders can't
> lose, just like the home loans underwritten by Fannie May and Freddie Mac
> or bundled and sold. Is this a big and growing problem? Just look at the
> data:
> https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FGCCSAQ027S
>
> I haven't been a student in a civilian university since the 80s so I don't
> really know what goes on there. But it's easy to conclude from many, many
> reports that the liberal arts colleges have become the cesspool of higher
> education.
>
> Scott
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Rick Knoble via Mercedes
>>
>> There is two ways of discharging student loan.
>> Pay it.
>> Die.
>> The student loan millstone around the necks of our youth is going nowhere
>> soon. More than likely, as aging boomers pass, their estates will be used
>> (garnished?) to pay off their children's student loans.
>>
>> Rick
>>
>
>
>
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