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Noodleface

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Little late to the conversation - my dad was an elevator tech, then elevator mechanic, and now inspector.

Makes decent money ($90k, I think), been doing it as long as I've been alive. As far as I know he's towards the top of the pay ceiling in the area, but I'm not sure. He's been hit hard with layoffs in the past few years.

I tried to get into it with his help and it was very difficult. The union has you sign up on a list. You then go to the local union office one day, sit there with a couple hundred guys, and then do your interview with a few leads. They then mail you a few weeks later with your "position" in a queue based on what skills/knowledge you had during the interview. The guys that were interviewing to start this line of work were new guys and laid off tradesmen either from elevators or other trades. Being unskilled I Was so far down the list that I was basically guaranteed not to get a call back. You need to repeat this every year. Even though my father was high up in the trade, his name couldn't even help move me along.

If you get in you need to take some tests, go to night school, more tests, etc.

I think they start around $60-70k in this area, so it was a good option but just was never going to happen for me.

It's not something I'd aim for just based on personal experience. Also the amount of layoffs recently is staggering.
 
Vinen

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Noodleface_sl said:
Little late to the conversation - my dad was an elevator tech, then elevator mechanic, and now inspector.

Makes decent money ($90k, I think), been doing it as long as I've been alive. As far as I know he's towards the top of the pay ceiling in the area, but I'm not sure. He's been hit hard with layoffs in the past few years.

I tried to get into it with his help and it was very difficult. The union has you sign up on a list. You then go to the local union office one day, sit there with a couple hundred guys, and then do your interview with a few leads. They then mail you a few weeks later with your "position" in a queue based on what skills/knowledge you had during the interview. The guys that were interviewing to start this line of work were new guys and laid off tradesmen either from elevators or other trades. Being unskilled I Was so far down the list that I was basically guaranteed not to get a call back. You need to repeat this every year. Even though my father was high up in the trade, his name couldn't even help move me along.

If you get in you need to take some tests, go to night school, more tests, etc.

I think they start around $60-70k in this area, so it was a good option but just was never going to happen for me.

It's not something I'd aim for just based on personal experience. Also the amount of layoffs recently is staggering.
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I'd just say to learn how to pump septic tanks and be the guy available on holidays.
ROFL'd at how much a friend had to pay yesterday to get pumped on the 4th.
 
Cad

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My radiologist brother in law signed up for a $12000 7.5 hour moonlighting shift doing radiologist shit on labor day.

Haha. What the fuck.
 
Vinen

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Cad_sl said:
My radiologist brother in law signed up for a $12000 7.5 hour moonlighting shift doing radiologist shit on labor day.

Haha. What the fuck.
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Just MD things.
That's my take-home after taxes for a month... arg.
 
Eomer

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Heh, they just released a huge dump of salary/financial data in Alberta due to a new sunshine list, and 8 of 10 of the highest paid physicians in the province were radiologists. Billing between 3-4 million a year each. Granted, that's for their entire practice and they're not walking away with that in their pocket, but a representative for them did specifically say that they're "only" keeping about 20-30% of that. That means they're making something like 600-800k a year. Not too shabby of a living.
 
Khane

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Radiology and Anesthesia. That's where the money is!

Besides the banana stand that is.
 
Cad

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ZyyzYzzy_sl said:
Can't radiologists telework now too?
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They usually have to have privileges at the hospitals they are reading for so there's not much advantage, and they gotta have a properly rated screen at home and the scans they are looking at are like hundreds of megabytes each. Brother in law says technically he can but his productivity suffers and it's not worth it.
 
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There's a dude near here exchanges with a doc in Australia, I guess they each cover the night shift and exchange the work. He lives at the greenbrier so prob at least a 3 million house, not too sure. I have a cousin in Cleveland that's a radiologist and he pulls in about 550, but works all the time..total tightwad, complete waste of being rich.
 
Palum

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Here's an idea: Be an escalator and helicopter mechanic in Vegas. You would clear 7 figures.
 
Heylel

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There are few things in life as satisfying as telling a recruiter you aren't interested.

Just sayin.
 
chaos

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No shit. Thanks sir but no, I do not want to apply to the Help Desk Technician Level I opening you have for $15 per hour. Fuckers.

I mean, yeah, having that safety net is nice especially considering the tightrope thing I feel like i'm doing right now with contracts ending, etc. But it gets so old. I guess there used to be a "looking for work" thing and you could turn it off in linkedin.
 
Noodleface

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I always get stupid recruiters for aflac as a sales rep

I updated LinkedIn and monster and I've been fielding calls nonstop. Applied to 4 or 5 places (and Google, but lol) .
 
Heylel

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My LinkedIn has been pretty useful. I found my current job via LinkedIn actually, and the people who contact me are generally doing so with six figure jobs in my area of expertise. I'm just happy with my work from home, and taking anything else full time would mean giving up a very lucrative, absurdly easy side gig. I'm not going to hop companies unless I'm given a good reason, or a significantly better title.

I spent long enough in academics that it's still flattering when a recruiter makes their pitch. I'm sure it'll get tedious one day, but not yet.
 
chaos

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Half the recruiters who contact me barely even speak english. Of the remaining half, about half of those are for bullshit jobs. Of that remaining 25%, about 900% of those are for HBSS. fuckers.
 
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