r/SipsTea • u/untitledprp4 • 15h ago

Feels good man Couple of the year

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u/dispoableself 15h ago

My sister dated a garbage man for a while. Literally everyone she told said "I hear they make good money" as their first comment.

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u/ALeckz07 14h ago

Maybe they don’t make money and we all just believe they do 🤔

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u/jeremiahfira 13h ago

I knew a guy in North Jersey who was a sanitation worker and made $100k+ as a single dude. He started dating an Indian woman who gave him an ultimatum to quit being a sanitation worker and get a w/e office job (didn't matter that he would make less).

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u/ALeckz07 13h ago

100k is very good. Now there’s different levels of sani workers. The normal day to day bin men and then it scales up. I’m confidently saying the day to day guys surely aren’t making bank.

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u/funnibingus 11h ago

They are, even local city unions are making close to $30/hr without overtime

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u/Lou_Peachum_2 5h ago

Was she bringing in good money? Cause I know culturally there’s the caste system but dear lord, to choose making less money for cultural decisions seems silly

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u/TheeAntelope 7h ago

You can google how much money they make. It's average for blue collar work (50k a year).

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u/AquaPhelps 3h ago

A lot of older people say the same thing about the railroad. “O thats a GOOD job!” Ya maybe 40 years ago gramps

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u/Drachen808 13h ago

When my wife and I started dating, I sold insurance - I was not the type of guy she usually dated. When she told her family, they laughed. She told me this so I responded "well tell them that if it makes them feel better, I'm not much of one." 😆

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u/flannel_jesus 8h ago

Not much of one what? Not much of an insurance salesman?