Posted on 09/10/2019 7:53:34 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) — A job fair at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Mississippi drew hundreds of people interested in the work.
Ingalls Vice President of Operations George Jones called Saturday's turnout tremendous.
WLOX-TV reports that Jones says the Pascagoula shipyard is hiring mainly in pipe welding and pipe fitting positions at the moment. Ingalls is looking to fill 500 jobs by the end of the year.
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Those probably pay well!
My maternal grandfather was chief rigger at Ingalls during WW2. Proud of him for that, though he was never sober. Someone posted only a long time ago that he was better drunk than anyone else was sober.
Pasacagoula is an OK place to live, just a short distance to Biloxi and New Orleans.. We’d drive down from Chicago every Easter vacation for years and years, stay in Biloxi. Loved it. Very fond memories.
Yes they do.
If I could do it over I would take my white collar and throw it away :)
A good day for jobs, eh boss?
No they don’t, most shipyards pay bottom of the barrel unless it is some of the ones around Virginia doing government work but many welders can’t pass the background checks required for those jobs.
With Don in the White House, every day is a good day for jobs. I only post about 1% of what I see. I could post job opening news articles 24 hours a day. Night and day from when the Kenyan was in office.
“No they don’t, most shipyards pay bottom of the barrel unless it is some of the ones around Virginia doing government work but many welders can’t pass the background checks required for those jobs.”
I have known people who were just fine drunk.
My late uncle was drunk almost all the time.
Sometimes if you caught him very early in the AM he was sober.
Nope - After I retired from AF and while waiting for something to come along, I worked there fro 4 months (Nope ‘98 - Feb ‘99)in the electric shop....wages were not terrible but nothing to boast about as they scrimped on a LOT - I worked in a machine shop in the early ‘70s that was more modern and safer than the shipyard.
Happy drunks, there are a few. Not in my family except my grandfather.
I’m blessed to be the only non-alcoholic in my family of origin and my son’s an alcoholic too, absolutely ruining his life, walking away from six-figure jobs time after time to drink; I think he’s living in a shelter now..
Wow.
My electrician friends make a fortune.
But then...they’re electricians lol
Maybe different parts of country pay differently?
Everybody here in NYC gets paid more than they’re worth.
Including me lol
“No they don’t, most shipyards pay bottom of the barrel”
I work in a relatively small shipyard in the deep south. We pay $24.00 for our craftsmen, with lots of overtime. Down here, that’s not “bottom of barrel”. You can live pretty comfortably on that.
I was refering to the travelers that travel around the country. Yes that’s about right for local pay with no per diem, but yes for pipe welders, $24 an hour is just about bottom pay.
“I was refering to the travelers that travel around the country. Yes that’s about right for local pay with no per diem, but yes for pipe welders, $24 an hour is just about bottom pay.l
I can’t argue that. There was a time about 10 years ago when shipyards paid per dime, but those days are over for now.
Watch out for squirrels going berserk in church though.....
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