Posted on 10/22/2011 8:37:46 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Pharmacy technician
Salary according to experience level -
An entry level Pharmacy tech can earn $9 to $12 Per hour.
An intermediate technician which has an experience of above 2 years can get hourly income of $12 to $18.
The technician who got more than 5 years of experience can be promoted to Supervisor. Supervisors can earn a salary of $18 to $22 per hour.
Thanks for the input.
Yeah, I figure that Engineering, in general, is a good
degree to have.
I majored in Computer Science. I always respected the Physics and Engineering majors most. I survived Cal 1-3.
They do that stuff like it’s arithmetic.
Anyhow, my son is better at Math than I was at his age. So, I have been encouraging him to go that route or to major in Engineering.
I do think that vocational training can often be a better choice than some college programs. In his case, college makes sense because he wants to serve in the military. Starting off with a commission will open many doors for him in the future.
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Air Traffic Controller. - $117,240
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Might I suggest electrical engineering? Sorry to butt in. But, there are recruiters calling me and emailing me daily and weekly because of my background and experience. I get many calls for positions even for which I’m only marginally qualified or would need a year to come up to speed.
There is such a wide variety of jobs available to electrical engineers. Insist on getting a Master’s (1.5 years). It’s only about 11 more classes after the bachelor’s (4 years), but it will take him farther with more earnings. PHD even better earnings potential, but we have a nickname for that - P_ermanent H_ead D_amage. Materials science is also a very good degree to have.
Community agitator, advancement to state Senator, US Senator, President. Must be at least half-black.
Before you butt in, maybe you should read at least the title of the thread: (presented here for you)
9 Great Jobs That Don't Require A College Degree
Learn to be a welder, and you can write you own ticket in the Houston area....
Same thing in DFW and most of East Texas
If you move to San Jose, CA and become a full employed Fire Fighter or Police Officer you will earn about $200,000 In salary, benefits and cash comp.
Does require a 4 year degree though.
The “$#!T Directors” as Plumbers are known in the trades makes the best money when it comes to new Commercial and Residential construction, followed by Electricians.
I’ve known two Electricians that have died doing the “480v shuffle” as all it takes is one moment of carelessness, one night of poor sleep, a faulty voltage tester/multimeter, or some type of distraction.
Most Electricians working on commercial jobs with 240v/480v will often carry two voltage test tools in case one is faulty.
I’ve seen plenty of Electricians works on 120v while it was live, as it won’t kill you but it will give you a wake-up if you touch the hot (black) wire.
The Illegal’s are now taking over the building trades here in California, mainly roofing, but now Framing, Carpentry and more and more into the more skilled trades like Electrical.
And the IBEW will always send some thugs to a non-union job and talk to the General (General Contractor) and demand to be hired, and if not, they will make veiled threats about “how it would be too bad if something were to happen to the electrical wiring that’s already been pulled.”
A friend of mine is an Electrician and I worked with him one Summer when I was out of work doing the basics, like pulling Romex on Residential jobs and other basics on a Commercial job and some of these IBEW thugs showed up at a Commercial job that was financed by a very wealthy man, but you wouldn’t know it looking at him.
He drove an older pickup truck and made it a point to know the name of every worker on this particular job, from the laborers to the highest-paid workers and there were at least 50-100 different people on this job, depending on what phase of construction we were in.
Anyways, these IBEW thugs showed up and threatened him and when he refused to capitulate to them, the IBEW thugs told him “I hope you have a good attorney” to which he replied “I have 27 attorneys on retainer. Take your pick.”
Within 4 hours, a court injunction was issued against the IBEW preventing them from picketing within 2,000’ of the job site.
This guy had some major dollars and clout, but you would never know it looking at him or talking to him, as he was down to earth and dressed like his worker’s and drove an older economy pickup-truck.
Most people didn’t even know he was the big boss.
Seeing the look on the IBEW’s thugs faces when he told them he had 27 attorneys on retainer was priceless, and the union thugs threateningly said “we’ll be back” but before they had a chance to do so, they were slapped with the above described court injunction.
Hey Rod; we also make the best money in repair. Until I retired in 2010, I always loved Thanksgiving and Christmas for the early afternoon emergency repair calls. Big bucks to be made there. When the kitchen or toilet won’t drain, or the water won’t shut off they have to call now.
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Sign me up! I don’t know where you’re from, but I work with exactly what you just described every day, and the pay tops out at about 40k a year, with experience. Yeah, employers around here have driven down the wage scale that much. That’s why I plan to move out west.
Conservative radio talk show host!
Hubby's been a repair plumber for almost 20 years, and he never minds pulling call on the holidays.
Not only is the pay pretty good, folks usually tip......and offer to feed him too!
He nets around $60K a year, [which in Texas is a respectful salary] and the only degree he has is in an unrelated field.
If your career is pencil pushing, punching on a keyboard, living on the phone and any other skill other than a trade, you are in serious danger of being wiped out if we experience a collapse of our economy.
However, if you have learned a trade and carefully cared for it over the years, you will never be out of work.
When you have the actual “hands on” ability to repair or build something, there is always a demand for your services. In bad financial times, the demand increases.
“I’ve seen plenty of Electricians works on 120v while it was live, as it won’t kill you but it will give you a wake-up if you touch the hot (black) wire.”
black only if it came out of panel box that way .. have had the (white) get me before bacause of DIY just not understanding uniformity
BS Degree: Nope, not Bachelor of Science, but "Bull-Sheet!"
MS Degree: Masters? Wrong! "More of the same!"
PHD Degree: This one's simple: "Piled higher and deeper!"
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