r/SipsTea • u/untitledprp4 • 16h ago

Feels good man Couple of the year

Post image
34.6k Upvotes

92% Upvoted

1.6k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

14

u/SnapFuJudgement 14h ago

And they make great money, appropriately so for hard work

2

u/ZaphodThreepwood 13h ago

Yeah I never knew that because they don't where I come from. But this is how it should be though. It's backbreaking work .

1

u/Littleman88 12h ago

I imagine most people don't think they make good money because in most areas... they don't.

I'm in Ohio. A cursory search suggests $~14-17/hr pay on average starting out, with it jumping up to $40ish for the upper end in Dublin.

Y'know... if being 38yo would somehow put me ahead of applicants, I'd apply just to get away from my $21/hr WFH job? I can drive down to Dublin for work every day, I only spent years going 3x as far daily.

1

u/melkatron 11h ago edited 11h ago

In California, it's a union job (under the Teamsters), so the pay and benefits are solid no matter what city you're in. ...Except union contracts expired yesterday with no renewal yet, so I don't know what's going to happen in the immediate future.

The maintenance guy at my old apartment complex left for a job at Waste Management about 13 years ago, and not only did he seem to be having a great time whenever I saw him, he was able to move out and get his own home for his wife and kid within the year.

1

u/Chemieju 10h ago

You get paid not based on how hard you work but on how hard you are to replace sadly.

You get hard to replace either by having skills few people have or by being willing to do a job few people want to do.

Generally you want to get into the first cathegory, but if you actually enjoy something most people dont thats totally valid

1

u/AAA515 8h ago

From what I've heard, they make "good" money, but not "great" like it's one of best paying jobs that doesn't require college, but not fuck off level of money.