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Re:High-Paying Trade Jobs Sit Empty, While High School Grads... by megaman22 on Thursday April 26, 2018 @11:11PM (#16938208)
A half-way decent welder can generally make $20/hr, and live in low cost of living areas. That's a good living for many people.

If you're willing to accept the boom-or-bust nature of construction projects, or remote (as in, go to where work is in demand) work, you can make considerably more. Then there's overtime, which your salaried white-collar worker doesn't get at all.

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Re:High-Paying Trade Jobs Sit Empty, While High School Grads... by watwut on Friday April 27, 2018 @02:13AM (#16938765)
Then again, the white collar worker spends evening with his familly. Travelling worker does not and it makes relationship with both kids and wife harder. You have to factor that in too. There is reason why remote work pays more.
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Re:High-Paying Trade Jobs Sit Empty, While High School Grads... by PedroBatista on Friday April 27, 2018 @07:09AM (#16939827)
Most white collar ( real workers ) spend their evenings doing house shores and their brain is already in half a coma.
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Re:High-Paying Trade Jobs Sit Empty, While High School Grads... by nwmcsween on Saturday April 28, 2018 @01:40AM (#16946233)
At least in Canada common rate is about $40+ for a decent welder
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Re:High-Paying Trade Jobs Sit Empty, While High School Grads... by somethingwitty1 on Friday April 27, 2018 @01:07AM (#16938561)
They do in locations such as California.
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Re:High-Paying Trade Jobs Sit Empty, While High School Grads... by PC_LOAD_LETTER on Friday April 27, 2018 @01:22AM (#16938618)
Sure, but $20 an hour isn't really "more" than what people are making in degreed professions.

> Then there's overtime, which your salaried white-collar worker doesn't get at all.

Not true across the board - in fact, many mid-paying office jobs are hourly and do pay overtime. I know a bunch of people that worked at AT&T as "salaried" workers, but they still needed to log their hours toward projects, and received 1.5x pay when they worked more than 40/wk, which was most weeks.

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