Re: Plumbing vs. Forestry
Re: Plumbing vs. Forestry
you can put plumbing/electrical occupations against any profession in terms of money.
but, the difference is that one has to do manual labor and deal with shit as a living. the other gets to go out in nature and study it and make it a better place. for a person like you who would be more fitted to fix sewage pipes, studying your brain for the betterment of the world isnt something you would value or understand, which is why you had to ask the question.
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[QUOTE=nathanjizzle]you can put plumbing/electrical occupations against any profession in terms of money.
but, the difference is that one has to do manual labor and deal with shit as a living. the other gets to go out in nature and study it and make it a better place. for a person like you who would be more fitted to fix sewage pipes, studying your brain for the betterment of the world isnt something you would value or understand, which is why you had to ask the question.[/QUOTE]
Teleport yourself into the cringe thread.
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I made 70K last year with just a High School Diploma and some College Courses.
Don't let Douchewallaces fool ya. He works at the campus bookstore. That's why he's up to date on all the lingo. He's 35, looks like he's 12, and thinks he's a tough guy. :lol
You ain't fooling us, Norman.
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Well to be fair you do need some people that specialize in Forestry, and atleast forestry is some sort of STEM degre. I suppose he provides some value to the world, and We can't have a world full of plumbers.
But I never got the snobbery or the entitlement some people have for having a degree. I have a graduate degree as well and do fairly well for myself but I don't think I am above people that have to go out and figuratively break their back for their job while mine involves sitting in an office chair. But I do look down upon people that major in a liberal art degree and then complain about their job prospects. Sorry if you want to major in a liberal arts degree you should realize that your job prospects are limited (generally speaking)and there is only a certain amount of liberal arts job the market will hire. The latter might make me a hypocrite but some of these majors are more akin to hobbies.
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I can't tell if this thread is a dig at degrees, forestry degrees, or just DW.
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[QUOTE=nathanjizzle]you can put plumbing/electrical occupations against any profession in terms of money.
but, the difference is that one has to do manual labor and deal with shit as a living. the other gets to go out in nature and study it and make it a better place. for a person like you who would be more fitted to fix sewage pipes, studying your brain for the betterment of the world isnt something you would value or understand, which is why you had to ask the question.[/QUOTE]
You think that Deuce doesn't dig through bear and wolf shit for a living? :confusedshrug:
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Going back to Starface's analysis I used a similar method in deciding not to go to law school.
When I was considering law school (I was in my early 20's) I was making roughly 50-55k, and if I went to law school full time and quit my job I would have lost three years of my salary and salary increases (in the very least around $150k) and would spend another $120k or so to obtain the degree. Therefore, my total opportunity cost of going to law school was around $270k. This doesn't include the costs of bar exam material, additional transportation, salary increases and living costs while going to law school, interest, and so forth. So let's round up and say it would of been around $300k.
If I went to a top 14 law school I would have a pretty good chance of getting a big law soul sucking job where I would work crazy hours but make around $120-$150k. It probably would of taken me around 3-4 years after working as a lawyer to break even of the opportunity cost of $300k I mentioned above. But this assumes I would of made it in a top 14 law school and landed a big law job, and in reality I probably would of went to a top 100 law school and would have had to graduated in the top 10% of my class to get a big law job. And I would of probably had to settle for some average $50-$70k job and hope to make it big afterwards.
Now there are many lawyers that didn't analyze the costs and quit their jobs and went back to school because a Lawyer is a prestigious job and afterall these costs are just an investment, Right? Well to some degree it is but it could be a bad investment, and now you have a large backlash against law schools because many of their students are in debt with no jobs.
Point is people need to look at going to school with a realistic approach. As long as DW is happy with his decision and isn't bitching about the pay then good for him. But if he thinks obtaining 4 degrees and forewent years of potential earnings to make $50k in his 30s (this is assuming Starface's info is correct) was a sound business idea then I think Starface has a point to some degree. But if DW is doing something he has a strong interest in and enjoys his job then more power to him. The ones that should be criticized are the ones that go into huge student debt and/or bitch about the salary of their jobs and how unfair it is they make alot less compared to "x"
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[QUOTE=KyrieTheFuture]I can't tell if this thread is a dig at degrees, forestry degrees, or just DW.[/QUOTE]
I'm rent free in a test subject's head.
On another note, who needs forests, trees, timber, wildlife, carbon, ecosystem services and everything else that goes along with it.
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[QUOTE=ALBballer]Going back to Starface's analysis I used a similar method in deciding not to go to law school.
When I was considering law school (I was in my early 20's) I was making roughly 50-55k, and if I went to law school full time and quit my job I would have lost three years of my salary and salary increases (in the very least around $150k) and would spend another $120k or so to obtain the degree. Therefore, my total opportunity cost of going to law school was around $270k. This doesn't include the costs of bar exam material, additional transportation, salary increases and living costs while going to law school, interest, and so forth. So let's round up and say it would of been around $300k.
If I went to a top 14 law school I would have a pretty good chance of getting a big law soul sucking job where I would work crazy hours but make around $120-$150k. It probably would of taken me around 3-4 years after working as a lawyer to break even of the opportunity cost of $300k I mentioned above. But this assumes I would of made it in a top 14 law school and landed a big law job, and in reality I probably would of went to a top 100 law school and would have had to graduated in the top 10% of my class to get a big law job. And I would of probably had to settle for some average $50-$70k job and hope to make it big afterwards.
Now there are many lawyers that didn't analyze the costs and quit their jobs and went back to school because a Lawyer is a prestigious job and afterall these costs are just an investment, Right? Well to some degree it is but it could be a bad investment, and now you have a large backlash against law schools because many of their students are in debt with no jobs.
Point is people need to look at going to school with a realistic approach. As long as DW is happy with his decision and isn't bitching about the pay then good for him. But if he thinks obtaining 4 degrees and forewent years of potential earnings to make $50k in his 30s (this is assuming Starface's info is correct) was a sound business idea then I think Starface has a point to some degree. But if DW is doing something he has a strong interest in and enjoys his job then more power to him. The ones that should be criticized are the ones that go into huge student debt and/or bitch about the salary of their jobs and how unfair it is they make alot less compared to "x"[/QUOTE]
His economics are way off. I'm not going to argue with a troll about the value of going to school vs being a test subject or plumber.
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[QUOTE=DeuceWallaces]His economics are way off. I'm not going to argue with a troll about the value of going to school vs being a [B]test subject[/B] or plumber.[/QUOTE]
:roll: :roll: :roll:
Chris is an absolute madman! No regard for human life!
Disregard health
Acquire money
Re: Plumbing vs. Forestry
I know guys with a forestry degree that make $80k a year just a few years after they left university.
Also, forestry is obviously an extremely important subject to study, because without forests mankind is facked
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[QUOTE=ALBballer]Well to be fair you do need some people that specialize in Forestry, and atleast forestry is some sort of STEM degre. I suppose he provides some value to the world, and We can't have a world full of plumbers.
But I never got the snobbery or the entitlement some people have for having a degree. I have a graduate degree as well and do fairly well for myself but I don't think I am above people that have to go out and figuratively break their back for their job while mine involves sitting in an office chair. But I do look down upon people that major in a liberal art degree and then complain about their job prospects. Sorry if you want to major in a liberal arts degree you should realize that your job prospects are limited (generally speaking)and there is only a certain amount of liberal arts job the market will hire. The latter might make me a hypocrite but some of these majors are more akin to hobbies.[/QUOTE]
This was primarily in relation to this specific quote of his:
[QUOTE=DeuceWallaces]It seems logical that as a society we would benefit from subsidizing college education. We need more people with those skills and no debt. Undergraduate is the new high school and a MS is the new BS/BA.[/QUOTE]
If we create free edumacation the way Bernie wants we're gonna be paying for all these kids who are simply going to school THINKING it's the way to a more prosperous future. Not because they have a specific field picked out and know it requires a certain degree, but all the kids (probably a majority these days) who are just going because they think theyre supposed to and dont have any clue what they're gonna be doing in 10 years. Most of them have absolutely no business being in school. It will serve them no economic benefit, because in reality, going into something like a forestry program puts you in a HOLE compared to something like plumbing or construction work. How many foresters do we need?? I'm all for conservation, but when it comes right down to it I'd rather have someone available to fix a bursted pipe than deuce out there measuring tree rings.
So it's not like it's all that economically beneficial to subsidize college for everybody. In fact it's downright stupid. For many people, it's simply a waste of income earning years. They're not any better off when they're done than if they'd have just learned some skills fresh out of high school and gotten to work.
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Wild guess here but I don't think people get into forestry for financial gain.