A weird thing about certain jobs

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Ive noticed lately that certain jobs have changed the way you need to be quallified and the way you get paid.

Ill give some examples.

Back around WW2 anyone and i mean any one could become an elite pilot and they had a lot of un educated and a lot of people that no one else would hire.
These days you have to go through hight school and do all sorts of specialist subjects to be able to be an elite pilot.

Also back in the old days, minners were usally people that didnt finish school and they didnt get paid very much at all.
These days minnors have to atleast have some sort of engineering degree and they get paid 100s of thousands.

I find it odd that jobs for the lower class uneducated people can become jobs where you rake it in but need an extreemly high education
 
conversely, there's a chap where i work who has a degree and he just sits there all day sticking labels onto buckets/tubs/boxes.... :p
 
Oh the irony. ;)










Now then, young Zip, I've told you before about your appalling spelling; the least you could do is run it through a spelling checker.

Collier/Miner/Pitman ;)
 
marc2003 said:
conversely, there's a chap where i work who has a degree and he just sits there all day sticking labels onto buckets/tubs/boxes.... :p
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Ahh, a media studies graduate, eh?
 
marc2003 said:
conversely, there's a chap where i work who has a degree and he just sits there all day sticking labels onto buckets/tubs/boxes.... :p
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Maybe he's content doing that. I've come across highly educated people that just got fed up with the rat-race and with stresses of highly-paid jobs, and decided they wanted out. One went from being an arbitrage expert (money market trader) to what was the equivalent of stacking shelves.

Why?

First, he'd done his years and made a mint.

Second, he got out before the stress killed him, or he ended up in a padded room.

Third, he didn't need the money, having been lucid enough to make sound investments, and in something other than whilte powder that ended up going up his nose.

Fourth, he didn't want to spend the rest of his life sitting at home on his butt, despite being able to afford to do so.

Fifth, he wanted a job where he met pepple, but could clock off, go home and forget about work.


Not many shelf-stackers go to work in a £110,000 Porsche. :D






Or ..... maybe the guy you know just can't get a better job?
 
Nozzer said:
Ahh, a media studies graduate, eh?
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hehe. i don't even know him. but apparently it's some science/pharmaceutical qualification he has. he only looks to be in his mid twenties and he'll be lucky to getting the minumum wage knowing the tightwads at my place. i just fail to see why anyone with some sort of skill can force themselves to do such trivial work.
 
marc2003 said:
hehe. i don't even know him. but apparently it's some science/pharmaceutical qualification he has. he only looks to be in his mid twenties and he'll be lucky to getting the minumum wage knowing the tightwads at my place. i just fail to see why anyone with some sort of skill can force themselves to do such trivial work.
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Laziness?

same situation with a physics grad at my work, he is older than me but earning half as much as me. All he does is distribute documents. Such a lazy git, he has no ambition.
 
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