College at age 11...

[Tyche]

Move to Kentucky and take a few hours of mining courses. Salary is about $25/hr and 60 hours a week or more (1.5x overtime). Stick around long enough and move up, the money is there.

[hey]

Move to Kentucky

Hmmm...

That is fairly amazing pay for such a job. If i could handle that kind of work, i'd probably do it

[AidenCarby]

This thread, lol.

[arus2001]

Hmmm...

That is fairly amazing pay for such a job. If i could handle that kind of work, i'd probably do it

Not really worth the risks. My brother-in-law works in a mine and only recently just recovered from an accident where when changing a thousand pound tire on some equipment, it slipped off the axle and crushed his foot. And while these companies love to preach the importance of safety, there's a lot that gets omitted from the books to avoid fines/shutdowns as well as other little corners cut to boost profits. And aside from the obvious physical risks of death or injury, long term exposure can lead to things like black lung. Some may get lucky and move up the ranks, sure, but some wind up lurking the tunnels until they just can't anymore. Some also underestimate the psychological strain of being underground in dark, confined spaces for large periods of time.

I don't know if the show is still running, but I think History did a season of something called Coaltown or something similar, which was basically a sort of documentary accompanying a mining operation and just kind of getting a feel for the people working it. It might be worth looking into if you're just curious, but from what I saw, it's not really a dream job.

[hey]

Not really worth the risks. My brother-in-law works in a mine and only recently just recovered from an accident where when changing a thousand pound tire on some equipment, it slipped off the axle and crushed his foot. And while these companies love to preach the importance of safety, there's a lot that gets omitted from the books to avoid fines/shutdowns as well as other little corners cut to boost profits. And aside from the obvious physical risks of death or injury, long term exposure can lead to things like black lung. Some may get lucky and move up the ranks, sure, but some wind up lurking the tunnels until they just can't anymore. Some also underestimate the psychological strain of being underground in dark, confined spaces for large periods of time.

I don't know if the show is still running, but I think History did a season of something called Coaltown or something similar, which was basically a sort of documentary accompanying a mining operation and just kind of getting a feel for the people working it. It might be worth looking into if you're just curious, but from what I saw, it's not really a dream job.

Well, i certainly would never do it long term. Of course there's risks, that is surely the only reason they pay so well. Still, i live cheap, so if i could work 5-10 years, and bank a few hundred thousand dollars, i could easily live the rest of my life on savings+investments. Alas, numerous health problems would make it impossible for me to do anyway.

[Flarega]

Clearly this thread shows that teachers are getting paid way too much. I say cut their salaries.

[BaneTheBrawler]

Move to Kentucky

Pass.

[Day]

Prob like 2% of the population wasn't bored in school... actually only the LD kids prob weren't bored.

[hey]

Prob like 2% of the population wasn't bored in school... actually only the LD kids prob weren't bored.

Really? This is new and exciting information. Do go on.

[Day]

cool post bro

[Day]

oh I see I hurt your feelings since you were one of the first claiming bordem in school like it was unique and interesting.

[Kuya]

Is this the thread where i sign up for genius club

[Day]

Yeah make sure you put bored in school on application.

[hey]

oh I see I hurt your feelings since you were one of the first claiming bordem in school like it was unique and interesting.

I did no such thing.

[Kuya]

I hope i am smart enough to be a genie

[Byrthnoth]

If you're bored then you're boring. Never let your schooling get in the way of your education. etc. etc.

In the end, all that matters is what you do with your brain. You can be perfectly clever and still not very smart. People have some kind of romantic attraction to the intelligent slacker archetype, but the end of the slacker road is not success. You have to buckle down and do some work at some point or you end up working a shit job and talking about how smart you are while you make the same wage as the idiots you scorned in school.

Like, Sophomore Year of high school was Chemistry for my grade. The teacher recommended specific people to take the Chem SATII based on their performance in the class and her appraisal of them. I was not recommended because my homework, while generally on time, was pretty obviously halfassed in the 15 minutes before class. I ended up taking it anyway and posting an 800, but only because I locked myself in my room with a Chem SAT II prep book for a day and ground it out.

Organic Chemistry, sophomore year of college... my professor was a total dick who would take huge amounts of points off for minor issues on the test and had no defined grading scale. I got a 54 on the first test because I knew I understood the material better than my peers and figured I didn't need to study. It was 10 points above the mean, but also a wake-up call. I ended the class with an 85 average and there were only four evenly-weighted tests. Why? Because I locked myself in my dormroom and did the last 10 years of practice tests every Sunday before the Monday test (after my CoP static of course).

You can't just drift along being smart and expect people to hand you money for being clever. It happens, but Bill Gates' story isn't really that common. If the top 5% of the population by income are the only people really living comfortably and they aren't composed of the top 5% of the population by intelligence, then you need to work.

[Kuya]

In high school i remember being very bored. It was because all i really wanted to do was hang out with my friends and masturbate. Not at the same time.

They called me a genius.

[Uzor]

You'd save time for homework if you masturbate while you hang out with friends.

[Kuya]

But then there wouldn't be any time for apple pie and my bitch's tits

[Seanr]

I was the first one to be bored! I was an OB