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15 Blue Collar Jobs That Pay Well In The US: These Roles Pay $60K And Up and are currently not at risk from AI displacement
International Business Times ^ | 05/17/2024 | Vinay Patel

Posted on 05/20/2024 10:25:46 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 05/20/2024 10:25:46 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Only $60K??? You are nuts. That is not enough to support smart phone, daily lattes, theater tickets weekly, Uber > 5blocks, etc. No blue city TWOT could live without that.

Yah gotta think of the blue city “citizens” who expect > $100k as a starter job. Why, that is why they got their degrees in gender studies!!


2 posted on 05/20/2024 10:29:23 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo, )
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To: SeekAndFind
Rather than a full-blown 4+ years in college, an AA degree with some sort of certification can lead to a lifelong career. A cousin of mine did that many years ago, and wound up as a medical technician, which I think also included certification for MRI scans.

She actually didn't know what she wanted to do at the beginning of her AA education. By the time she finished her two years in an inexpensive but quality junior college, she had decided to be a medical technician.

3 posted on 05/20/2024 10:34:42 AM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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The linemans sa;ary is grossly under reported. They are generally IBEW unionized and they receive very high pay when they work overtime during stormy weather.

Als thiose who have their master ticket ( red ticket) , and who work on high tension lines with high transmission towers earn very high wages, a lot more than is reported.

Being a lineman is one of the best jobs on this list.


4 posted on 05/20/2024 10:41:45 AM PDT by Candor7 (Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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I am a lineman for the county...
5 posted on 05/20/2024 10:50:52 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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A friend signed her lazy 21 year old son up for training to be a lineman for TVA about 6 years ago. The cost was $15,000 for 4 months of training. There was a guaranteed job starting at $65,000 for all who finished the course. Lazy boy went for two weeks, and the parents were out the money.


6 posted on 05/20/2024 10:51:10 AM PDT by Betty Jane
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To: SeekAndFind

AI will mostly be replacing women in pink collar jobs.


7 posted on 05/20/2024 10:51:50 AM PDT by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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To: bobbo666

60k is what after all government taxes? 38k?

You think 38k is good money in 2024? C’mon.


8 posted on 05/20/2024 10:52:07 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: SeekAndFind

If you want to make real money, you have to have your own business. If you are really good, you can charge top dollar and customers will pay it.


9 posted on 05/20/2024 10:55:37 AM PDT by proxy_user
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The numbers from broadcast engineers and the like listed has to be for the bigger markets.

I worked in a public television station having just a diploma in TV and made more than most of the regular people at the commercial stations who were media arts and the like.

Not that I made any great sum. Early 00s, about 24k. The news people I knew anything of even close to what I was, well below.


10 posted on 05/20/2024 10:59:01 AM PDT by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure..)
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To: chajin

Best song ever written.


11 posted on 05/20/2024 11:02:09 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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Airframe and PowerPlant mechanics earn $150k plus at the major airlines.


12 posted on 05/20/2024 11:03:11 AM PDT by ebshumidors ( )
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I watched a whole hour by some wunderkind on the post-labor world….
13 posted on 05/20/2024 11:03:37 AM PDT by combat_boots
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Ship and boat captains and operators make a lot more than that.

At least in Alaska fisheries; there was a guy in a North Carolina town where I lived who made captain on a crab boat.

He would fly to Alaska for the season and sometimes pull in 200k-300k then spend the rest of the year at home with his kids.

That was 34 years ago.

Then again it’s not easy to make captain.


14 posted on 05/20/2024 11:06:06 AM PDT by packagingguy
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To: Psalm 73; chajin

Original 1969 music vid ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIYvHdEwEOw


15 posted on 05/20/2024 11:07:46 AM PDT by Jane Long (The role of the GOP: to write sharply-worded letters as America becomes a communist hell-hole.)
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To: Betty Jane

The apprentoce system is the best way. The course work is often offered for free or low tuition by most state licensing boards, or by a statewide powwr corporation.

No need to pay for the courses if a yougster is willing to travel out of state for his tickets.

My step grand daughter is the first female lineman in the province where I live, ( super athletic).She can out climb most of the 50 men on her line crew.


16 posted on 05/20/2024 11:12:08 AM PDT by Candor7 (Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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Good info but let me give you a tip when posting a link you received via email.

In this case the link includes your email address. Most of them don't but the info in those links can be traced back to you. There are already have a million ways for them to invade our privacy.

The trick is to delete everything in the URL starting with the "?". Everything after that is to identify you and has nothing to do with the subject.

htttttps:/www.ibtimes.co.uk/blue-collar-jobs-that-pay-well-us-these-roles-pay-60k-1724675?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=link0&utm_campaign=ibt-uk-morning-brief&nl_id=14&user_id=xxxxx@gmail.com

I added some "t's" in the http to prevent it from showing up as a link so you can see what I'm talking about and changed the email to x's.

If you find the "?" and delete it and everything after it, it will look something like this and still work but without your personal info.

htttttps://www.ibtimes.co.uk/blue-collar-jobs-that-pay-well-us-these-roles-pay-60k-1724675

17 posted on 05/20/2024 11:14:41 AM PDT by Boomer (If the Nazi-Rats and Rinos win, everyone loses. The Uniparty can no longer claim they are American.)
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Nice. Thanks, Jane.

No song ever captured the human longing like that one. Still gives me goose-bumps.

18 posted on 05/20/2024 11:16:43 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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If you want to make real money, you have to have your own business. If you are really good, you can charge top dollar and customers will pay it.

Exactly. A "job" is a mere apprenticeship for going out on your own.

19 posted on 05/20/2024 11:18:44 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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“Postmasters and mail superintendents oversee staff, ensure efficient mail processing and delivery, and maintain office operations. The role typically requires passing qualifying exams and background checks, and experience in administration can be beneficial.”


https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/cobb-county/former-cobb-postal-worker-accused-stealing-mail-after-ripped-open-checks-found-stolen-car/PG7FHWMH2ZCATAXGCZ5ZELSJXA/

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/former-ga-postal-worker-pleads-guilty-trying-send-drugs-mail-while-disability/XBL7G7UZUBGQ3AYWFSKRKP2KFY/

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/trending/3-us-postal-workers-arrested-13m-fraud-identity-theft-scheme/TE4O4JZFDVDUXPOD3T3IZDTOZQ/

In Georgia, we can’t get our mail. Oh, we get junk mail daily but important first class mail seldom arrives or if it does it is 2 or 3 weeks from the postmark date. This has been going on for over a year and no one seems to be able to solve the problem. However, every few months I see an article of another postal worker being arrested for theft.

In Georgia, the USPS is a jobs program for DEI hires and they are making a killing stealing the mail. Also, just earlier this month there was an article regarding absentee ballots just magically getting lost and never making it to their destination (all from a very rural county).


20 posted on 05/20/2024 11:21:12 AM PDT by CFW
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