>drive pic related in a mine
>make $220,000 a year
>no time to lift outside of my days off
I'm not going to make it.
Do you like your life? Honest question. Pretty good money but do you work long hours?
With an income like that lifting isn't really needed, this being said your social life must be pretty erratic
>>37873099
are you a miner in america?
where exactly do you work?
>>37873099
Holy fucking shit I work 60 hours a week as a financial analyst and I make half what you do.
How old are you? Is the job fulfilling and do you ever get to deal with anything exciting that makes you wanna go to work, at least for a day or two at a time once in a while?
I mean, shit. If I do well ill be pulling more by the time I'm 30, but to be a fucking machine operator and make almost a quarter million is fucking insane
>work for 5 years saving 90% of your paycheck
>get a part-time job doing literally anything that'll cover your food/bills
>bask in decades of semi-retirement with everything at your disposal
I couldn't be more jealous of you mang
why not?
OP here, I'm 24. I got this job by applying online after I took a $5000 dollar heavy equipment operator course. I work for shell Albian in northern Canada.
I have had offers to work in Australia for more, but I'm not interested in that. I get a nice retention bonus every year that's around 8-15k just as an incentive to keep me around, and it works.
I work 12 hours a day in a mine 7 days a week, then I get 7 days off.
>>37873188
> do fullbody routines on rest days, 3~4x a week
> pushups/pullups/pistol squats on work days, 3x a week
easy huh
>>37873188
cocksucker ive done that with 0 days off went from skelly to 2 pl8 bench in 7 months
also i make 45 a year
>>37873188
No joke, I would kill my whole family and cut my balls off for that kind of money
>>37873188
>I work 12 hours a day
was waiting to hear how many hours a day you work
you have time to workout bro, you just need to start seeing it as a necessary thing to do
>>37873188
perfect kind of job for the types around here who just want to cut off from the world and make mad cash
I personally couldn't ditch society like that right now
>>37873099
wake up early in my morning I'm a iron worker I have to get up at like 3:00 finish breakfast, quick shower, coffee all in 30 mins.
>go to gym workout for like 20-30 mins take a quick shower there
>sleep at 7:00-8:00
you'll have literally no social life though
That feel when spent £10,000 on NDY courses then the oil price dropped and I'm working in an office for £8 hour at an oil refinery waiting for it to start again so i can make mad dolla.
FUCK MGLKDLDG
>>37873248
The work shift is 12 hours, it's an hour drive there and an hour back by bus, so that's 14 hours. I get on the bus at 4:30 am and get home around 8pm. At which point I eat dinner. I have weights at home, but it's not the same.
>>37873260
I live in a city with 100,000 people, I haven't left society behind.
>>37873099
How are those figures calculated in america? Do you still have to pay taxes and get your insurance and old-age pension from that or is it already subtracted?
>>37873280
*NDT
>>37873293
is there fun stuff to do?
>>37873181
This, your current situation is an investment for the rest of your life, work for 5-7 years depending on how rich you want to be and how little you want to work afterwards. You've got it made bruv
>>37873188
Where did you take the course? How long til you completed it?
>>37873301
I live in Canada, it's all already deducted. I get Christmas bonuses and retention incentives of like $8-15k as well.
>>37873323
There's typical city stuff, theatres, restaurants, local events, shit like that. The city is always building stuff.
Most people here just buy quads and snowmobiles and guns and shit and have fun with those, or go travel every days off. I work with a guy that goes to Vegas every week.
>>37873099
How does one get a quarter mil a year for driving a forklift's big brother?
What OP isn't telling you is he's probably fucking up his health and both him and his employers know it.
I'm a Chemical Engineer that works for a mining company and we also have techs earning 6 figures on site, my friend who's a mining technologist got caught in fire retardant fumes never really recovered and years later his hospital bills alone almost completely bankrupt him.
We literally work out how long we are allowed to let people work on certain hazards they do the maximum regulations allow, but long term health effects are never properly studied so it's all a poor estimate. If you take hazard pay, you really are being put into a hazard in a very serious sense of the word.
That being said many people do get out with zero health issues. If these jobs are worth the risk to you go for it. Also know that you are giving up spending your youth in a city (which is fine if you can make friends quickly, but most people who only have a few months off lose their relationships quickly and spend their time in the city alone/with colluegues)
>>37873377
I took it at the local college, I was hired after a year. The course had a job placement program.
>>37873181
maybe work more like 15 years to be realistic with the way inflation is.
>>37873188
I would absolutely murder my entire family to get that job
>>37873389
>forklifts big brother
>can literally level an apartment building
If anything it's the bobcats bigger brother.
>>37873389
you give up your life for the money.
In straya the instructor of these roadtrains earns less than first-timers getting into the job, there's a reason for it. The instructor gets to live comfy in 1 place, whereas the roadtruckers constantly work and need to travel through the outback
>>37873480
I think l'd actually be okay with traveling a lot, l get bored if l stay in one place
And money is always a plus
>>37873544
A guy where I work drives dozer and has lived in the same place for 23 years
>mfw chosen to study Computer Science while seeing this
Why does this thread make me feel so mad? Should have done something like OP or gone to the police academy like I always wanted.
Anybody has some advice please?
>>37873731
Police my man, more rewarding and a lot cooler.
You're mad because his job seems easier and less qualified than yours, but look at that machine in the OP. It's a moving fucking fortress of diesel powered steel
>>37873676
What does he do with all his money? He must have millions
>>37873762
we got tricked by the 'you need higher education diploma to be successful'-mentality m8.
>>37873770
He has a lot of cool shit. Put his kids through school, bought him and his wife a Harley, an RV, travels a lot. Mediocre job but afforded him a great and comfortable life
>Dozer operator making more than a process op. You're lying OP, but I'm the only one here that knows.
>>37873764
Sorry I had to delete it I forgot mfw
I really don't know, I finished my first year in CS it went alright, considering seeing how the second year goes and if I find an internship for an year after it.
If not might as well go for the police academy.
>>37873795
I know anon I feel your pain so much, what did you feel for?
>>37873855
>operations doing anything but sit on their ass and turn a valve at the press of a button once every 6 hours from their computers
>>37873099
>operators
lmao can you even read this?
That sounds fucking terrible. I don't understand why people are so obsessed with money they spend every waking moment thinking about their jobs and shit that they can't enjoy actual life.
>>37873836
>cool shit
>Harley and rv
Pick one. That's white trash bullshit.
>>37873871
> I know anon I feel your pain so much, what did you feel for?
I studies business. Pretty OK, I'm just extremely lucky that I'm good at languages because that gets you an instant job here in yurop. (working proficiency in French, Dutch, German, English)
I wanted to become a farmer or a woodworker. I know it's shitty jobs for yurop, but I just wanted to do it.
Now I work in customer service in a local bank. Pay is OK and not far from home.
>>37873855
these guys do make a shitload though. overtime + high gov mandated wages for those jobs adds up. ive known guys with just high school diplomas make 80k in 6 months and take the rest of the year off
>>37873099
you can make it when you retire years earlier than your peers
>>37873899
>implying Harley's and RVs aren't cool shit for old people
>>37873871
At least u didnt fall for the STEM meme like
>be me
>major in chemistry high gpa apply for variouse labs, all of them pay 15 n hour or have similar sht pay
>be jobless or broke almost a year
>fuck this, realize conluting is the future
>go to coding bootcamp in ny for 15grand
>immediately after i graduated got a 70k/year job
I mean i did get lucky but i know others got slightly better if not close to what i make jobs after graduation
Honestly college has to be the biggest scam running in america right now
>>37873912
I know. I have a feeling we work in the same town, and maybe even the same company since he mentioned retention (and possibly thrift).
>>37873944
t. Owner of an above ground pool
>>37873099
> work work work
> no time to enjoy self
why work so much dude ? Only do half the time , get paid half and enjoy yourself ?
>>37873956
Then say what town nigger.
>>37873974
I work 7 days and get 7 off.
in other news,OP is full of shit or can't do math.
Being an operator, probably both.
>approaching end of medical degree
>changes to NHS since I applied now make being a jr dr absolute shit
>got offers to do festival and event management full time
>much less money, much less soul destroying
i feel like mistakes have been made
>>37873231
So to be clear 2pl8 is 90lbs?
>>37873946
Sorry that the time put in the chemistry shit didn't work out for you anon.
If you could spare some more time to give me some insight, because I feel lost at the moment.
What are you exactly doing in an usual day at your job?
Any languages you would recommend, are in demand if you want a good paying job? Does the free material on the internet compare the course you did?
Just asking in case I continue down this path.
My typical summer job consists of me sorting pallets with a forklift. Its incredibly boring, but also stressfull because I have to do it as fast as possible. However it pays a lot for a simple summer job, I get 23.50 an hour.
But I realized this summer that I would much rather not earn any money than waste yet another summer in that storage unit. I also realized that I have no need to make huge amounts of money, I would much rather have a good comfortable job and enough to get by.
The worst part is that I don't really spend any money either, other than a little bit on good food. I have fallen for the money meme for way too long, and its time to enjoy my self and be more social.
>>37874324
>has easy job
>bitches about it
Tep lul
So I'm guessing I'd have to be in Canada or Australia just to learn to do jobs like this (that is, get certified)?
Ive been thinking about going to work in mining or oil for a long time but it seems I gotta give up my cushy academic lifestyle and risk a whole lot of money for a chance, not a certainty, of getting a job in those fields.
>>37873124
>pretty good
>>37873131
>>37873131
THIS
>tfw make 1/4 of what OP makes
why did i go into accounting
>>37874032
Well a couple things on this:
Only one report on glassdoor, so those numbers aren't gonna be concrete.
He works 12 hour days, 7 days every 2 weeks, so 1/3 of it is overtime pay. Let's say OT pay is 1.5x. so (1.5*0.33+0.67)*$55/hr*12hr*7days=140k/yr
+10k retention bonus = 150k
benefits could put him closer to 170k, and he might just make more money than the average for whatever reason.
Safe to say OP makes 150k, 220k honestly isn't much of a stretch
>>37874390
>academic lifestyle of shitposting
OP took the risk. Man up
>>37874451
>op stopped shitposting
>>37873899
Who gives a shit? If he wants to buy 100 gold-plated beer helmets because it makes him happy, so be it. And btw, a shit ton of doctors, lawyers and engineers own Harleys. Fun is fun, dick head.
The real easy money in mining is the environmental scientists they are legally required to hire, if you go "easy" on them with reporting minor infractions they will do anything to make you want to stay.
My Bio prof knew a water security scientist that worked in northern Saskatchewan, he wanted to move to Alberta since his wife got a job there but the mine didnt want to lose him so now they pick him up from calgary in a private jet every week just to fly him to the mine, he still earns his hourly rate while flying and is given a bonus based on the km travelled for every trip.
>>37874447
Those kinds of companies pay double/triple time and a lot of the workers work on their days off for extra hours. My uncle does that in a water truck. Literally prints money
>>37874531
Same goes with safety people. The less shit you stir in those positions the more they want you around. It's like a cop that turns the other cheek
>>37873099
Ausfalian miner?
>>37874390
Cmon man. Why couldn't you do this work? It's driving. Anyone can do it if you're willing to endure the isolation. I want to do it. I have nothing to lose.
>>37873099
I spoke with a guy on youtube that claimed he did 100 thousands hours on one of this. I was surprised and didn't believe him fully, but I guess he could have said true if you really don't have time for anything else.
>>37873099
So how would a person from the US be able to do what you do? Working 7 days a week and 12 hours a day sounds good to me but I don't know anything about the qualifications
>>37874534
>>37874032
Well damn, at triple overtime OP's numbers + glassdoor's numbers line up perfectly.
OP is not a faggot confirmed
>>37873544
Except Australia's outback is comparable in variety to ocean. My brother in law drives around Europe, which is pretty beautiful, but it got old for him after two years too.
Who here is serious about pursuing this work?
>>37874431
Because you don't want to hate yourself
>accounting
nevermind.
>>37874568
I'm sure I could do. What has me worried is that I probably can't get certified in my home country (there is no mining here at all, let alone at such a scale), meaning I would have to move out of my country just to get certified. This means permanently and irrevocably ending or at least weakening my current career progress, before I'm even so much as certified to get a job in mining/oil. Then I have to hope after I get certified I can actually land the job, and the industry isnt fucked over in the meantime.
I'd gladly invest the money to get certified if I could do it here, and once I got a job lined up I actually move out of the country and say farewell to my current career path.
But then again if it were all so easy, it wouldnt be worth it.
>>37873402
Shut up, nerd
>>37873946
>>37873946
you actually went to one of those coding bootcamp things, and it worked out?
does it normally work out?
ive been thinking about going to one of those. i just dont want to get scammed out of that kind of money
more details please
>>37874630
Just the OP probs
>>37874630
How does someone get started? I would want to do this but don't know where to start
>>37874603
I haven't even worked a job that pays actual overtime, just regular pay but more hours. Fuck me man
>>37873241
Just start your own business if youre that desprate
>>37873762
You can always try something else, but only if you know what you want. I was in your situation, dropped out, cause CS isn't really gaming all day as I thought, didn't know what else to do, so I got back and finished this shit. Still lost ton of time on something I don't really enjoy doing. Maybe I will start to like it. I hoped to refresh my knowledge this summer and try working as a programmer.
>>37873762
Entry level programming jobs aren't even twice minimum wage where I'm at. It truly is a shit tier career.
>>37874691
That's illegal in the US
https://www.dol.gov/whd/overtime_pay.htm
>>37873946
You did it wrong. My gf's sister majored in chem and didn't even have to try to get a job, they came to her. She got 18/hr and a completely flexible schedule, went to grad school and got 70k starting at the same job. She had job offers coming in all over the country for 80-110k starting, she just didn't want to move. STEM isn't a meme, it's very well known that you need a graduate degree to use it properly.
Well after hunting around for half an hour I can't see any ways to get into this field.
>Floor hands earn Walmart tier wages
>Heavy vehicle/Truck drivers in US, AUS, CAN all earn ridiculously low wages
So your telling me you just hit the jackpot?
>>37873099
Can't you just do that shit for 5 years then retire with a sensible lifestyle (or just do high paying very low hour part time work)?
>>37875337
What? You're telling me OP could have been exaggerating?
OP is full of shit
>>37873099
>Stand around and talk to people for 43 hours a week (average)
>Get paid $60/hr
Life could not be better.
>>37874112
2pl8 is 225. Xpl8 refers to hoe many 45s there are on one side of the bar + 45 for the bar.
>>37873099
>$220,000
>Chinese dollars
Kek
>>37876004
+45 for the bar
This meme again. Stop trying to trick people
>>37876146
give me ur helium filled bar bro
>>37876163
Do you also add 0.5lb for your gloves ?
>>37875966
What is your job?
>>37876185
Gyrocopter Fluids Maintenance
OP, help us out man how'd you score that job (training, location, etc.)?
I wouldn't even bother lifting if that was the case.
I would just go full cardio and be a loaded runner.
>>37873946
>Honestly college has to be the biggest scam running in america right now
So you majored in a pure science field and DIDN'T get a PhD? And you somehow expected to get paid with your little crappy Bachelors or Masters?
STEM isn't a meme you just need to understand that pure science degrees require a PhD to make money.
>>37876591
I already put a lot of details in this thread.
>>37876721
I'm not sure how Canada works but did you pay for a class while you were already in college? Or was it after? It would really be helpful if you told us the requirements you needed and where people could get more info to learn for themselves
Appreciate it
>>37876810
Go to trade school and pay for the class for heavy equipment operator
>>37874431
Because it has much higher earning potential with a hell of a lot more stability? At my regional firm, partners make an easy $600,000+ with 2 months paid vacation and full benefits. I know Big Four partners that make over double that.
>>37874633
I fucking love accounting. It's not all tax returns like people think. Most of the number crunching is done by computers too.
>>37876863
>implying you will ever be partner
>>37873099
i make 230K, but am also oncall and have nearly no social life. i'm also not going to make it.
i do plan on quitting my current job and moving to something with more life balance. i will gladly take a pay cut.
>>37873402
Well he said he is Canadian so I guess insurance isn't a problem there, also about social life, most of people around here are neets so it isn't a problem.
>>37877135
Damn, beat me to it.
>live with parents
>min wage part time
>make okay money
>might have full time job soon
man I'd live like a king with 30k a year
>>37874075
How did you get offers for festival management? I love House music, and would love to be apart of something like making things like EDC happen but literally have no idea where to start.
>>37877135
chances of becoming partner are greater than getting a $100k/yr+ trade or equipment operator job.
>>37873293
Sudbury?
Timmins?
>>37877823
Fort McMurray
>>37873855
aussie mill rat confirms this. maybe if he drove a jumbo or shovel.
>>37877823
Don't pretend Sudbury counts as society, I went to school up there.
>>37873099
total bull! underground workers at my site work 12hrs and have the same travel time. the ones that are interested in fitness roll into the gym as soon as the bus hits camp, the pisswrecks just hit the bar. If they go in the morning they're there at 3am so they can leave for work at 6.
>>37873099
If you make 220 grand a year why don't you get a better truck? That one looks kinda old.
>>37873896
So all people without high paying time consuming jobs have amazing lives that they really enjoy?
Holy shit 220k a year I dont even care just fuck my social life up, give me this job right now.
Dead serious OP if you're here still tell me your secrets, what school what placement program etc.
>>37879277
Are you retarded or do you think op is crushing his own vehicle?
>>37873188
oh so its canadian dollars, i.e. it doesn't count
>>37879381
No no op is driving the CAT
sitting pretty comfy here as an actuary. literally the easiest field to find a job in, the people come to YOU.
>one of the biggest threads on fit is about a bulldozer
Where did it all go wrong?
>>37876676
/thread
why do people think you can do pure science and be worth anything with a bachelors?
>>37873414
he could easily invest his money to compensate for inflation
>>37879285
No but it's easier to have an enjoyable life if you aren't spending it all working. It's why I'm considering leaving electrical engineering, because all of the other engineers only talk about work, class and what they're gonna do when they graduate. They spend every waking moment thinking about that shit and most of them seem pretty miserable.
>>37873896
>they can't enjoy actual life.
I already can't enjoy life so I might as well make shit tons of cash in the meanwhile. No problem with that.
>>37880586
Alright true that. It's just in my case I can't see myself enjoying it while working a lot, so I guess I projected a bit.
>>37873099
>he doesn't drive a d12
even your bulldozer didn't make senpai
>>37873099
what faggot would crush a nice square body
>>37873099
>make $220,000 a year
>work for 10 years
>spend as little as you can, invest as much as you can conservatively in a long-term investment portfolio
>retire, live off your ever-growing investments, lift 7 days a week if you like, live well
You have no imagination
>>37880627
look at those cucks and their aerodynamic feminine trucks behind it
>>37875337
>>37875861
I think OP is saying that he makes about 120k/year plus OT plus benefits plus hardship pay, which would push him to 200k/year. He's probably located in butt fuck nowhere in the middle of Baffin Island. Ever see the movie The Thing? It's that kind of lifestyle. So the pay has to be huge, otherwise no one would take it.
>>37879326
>Holy shit 220k a year I dont even care just fuck my social life up, give me this job right now.
>Dead serious OP if you're here still tell me your secrets, what school what placement program etc.
HEY OPPEEEEEEEE
What was the name of your college?
I googled training colleges in Toronto but couldn't find one with a co-op placement program like yours, and I'd really like to sign up for that. Please let me know. THANK YOU!
>>37880649
I'd do this and not give a crap. I don't want a family. I just want to earn tons, invest in real estate, collect rent and enjoy a really retirement.
Dad alotta money. I'm studying to become an organic chemist and I will probably never make that much, but I do love organic chemistry. It's like trying to put a puzzle together. A frustratingly complex puzzle with a huge learning curve. I'm hoping to make bank after discovering a drug or something, if not I will at least enjoy my job.
>>37879515
$220k salary with a high school education. Of course that's going to get mad hits.
>>37873188
Aussie miners get a gym at their worksite, it's not great but it's something
Why not get a home gym? Just a squat rack and an adjustable bench
>>37876172
>45=0.5
Fuck off
>>37881009
>not subtracting the weight of the holes in the plate
kek
Here are some average hourly wages by category in Canadian dollars at surface mines.
Electrician = 34.10
Mechanic = 33.80
Drill Operator = 32.34
Production Tuck Driver = 30.40
Labourer = 25.45
http://www.mining.com/2012-survey-of-canadian-mine-wages/
>>37873099
hows life in WA m8 ?
>>37878778
he's talking bout Sudbury Ontario he's all mixed up
lollin @ the idea of any miner in Sudbury ON clearing more than 50k yearly nowadays.
OP you don't need gains you're rich af and you have a bulldozer to move heavy things and impress sloots with.
>>37873188
>I have had offers to work in Australia for more, but I'm not interested in that.
Why m8? You scared of our wildlife?
>>37881950
>australia
>mining jobs
>>37873181
I don't know about you but spending 10-12 hour shifts driving a big haul truck or whatever the fck that machine is for 5 years is a great way to kill your soul.
>>37873099
Do body weight exercises before bed every night during your work week. And hit the gym hard a few days a week on your off week.
>>37882154
oi you silly cunt you made me gaff me gob
>>37873280
Oil prices aren't going up again in your life time, buddy.
>>37873181
>food/bills
Most mine workers don't have any. Free room, food, gym, errything. Fuck I'd sell my a few years of my life to get a headstart. tfw born in the wrong country
>>37873188
Can't you just lift on your off weeks? And then maybe find ONE hour during on weeks just to stop atrophy?
>>37873099
You posted this on /r9k/ already
>>37873402
>giving up spending your youth in a city
And that's bad because?
>>37882469
>bullshit with co-worker friends
>enough time off to have hobbies, get educated, lift
5 years in a flash in the pan, ohana.
>>37880609
That's a d12 you dumb fucker.
You make $120k a year max. and you've blown most of it on things that we will be repossessed when you get laid off. How do I know? Been there myself, along with half of my friends from my Province.
..also my buddy is an ifbb pro working out of Fort mac with the same hours as you doing electrical, not sitting on his ass all day. You're lazy. I had memberships at 4 different gym in Edmonton and Calgary while working 55-70 hours a week out there.
>>37882960
>enough time off to have hobbies, get educated, lift
no, you absolutely would not
>>37883189
1 week off
Looks like you do.
>>37882845
Why do you say that?
(Seriously interested)
>>37876863
what fucking firm do you go to? I've been a partner at mine for nearing 5 years, as a construction lawyer no less, and sat on £70k you filthy liar
>>37882845
Not op but I would guess that now is the time of alternative energy. Electric, solar, wind, ect. and it will keep advancing in these directions leaving oil behind.
You make as much money as a doctor m8, you have no reason to complain.
>>37877333
You'd live like a king while your parents pay everything
It's only good money when you can save it all
>>37885279
They've said that for decades
Billion dollar empires have more control than hippy energy
OP here, I went to a reservation yesterday to do some dirt biking. Surprised the thread is still going. I got banned lol
I work in Fort McMurray, Alberta.
>>37874075
People like you are why the NHS is dying
>>37873414
>not just working full time and make 220k
Honestly I would give up lifting for that
>ITT fitizens show how little lifting means to them when money is brought up
Bet you'd Suck a dick for a grand too
>>37887829
No your country makes it absolute shit
