You can tell this is an ancient meme because it prices college at 4 years at $9,000 per year instead of 5 years at $30,000 per year 😆

  • Knightfox
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    1 year ago

    This is pretty representative of my area as well. The thing that is weird for me is that they priced it at 40 hrs per week. A friend of mine was an Electrician Apprentice and he worked 21 days in a row 10 hrs per day and he’s in a union.

    • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Damn, that kinda OT is some good money but miss me with that. After 50 hours of solid work in a week I’m worthless lol.

      But I do light commercial construction mostly, which is pretty go-go-go all day long with bird-dogging foremen. If I was doing industrial or large commercial there’s usually some more breathing room.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah I said the same, but he was pretty pumped for it. Apparently it’s not so bad when you get out of the apprentice phase, but this is one of the concessions that their union makes. Essentially, the job has to get done by the deadline. The pros of it is that they have better benefits than government workers (his wife is a teacher), as an apprentice he was making $80k/year in 2019, and they were paying for him to go to night school for certifications (and giving him the time to do so).

        I’m not sure on the classifications of work, but the kinds of jobs they did were things Amazon warehouses.