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Offline Ladislaus

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Re: Job listings of shame
« Reply #15 on: January 31, 2026, 09:44:01 PM »
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  • I'm keeping an eye out for options myself, about where there might be opportunities for a career "pivot".  I think I have about 3-ish years left before I'm gone.

    I think that one area of opportunity might be for auto service, since cars are half-computer anymore, and troubleshooting involves following algorithms and whatnot, skills that used to be very much lacking among past generations of mechanics.

    Obviously things in the medical field will continue to stay around.  I've looked at getting trained as an MRI technicial, or things along those lines, and the few places that offer the training are highly competitive and would laugh someone my age out the door.

    Offline BOTHY

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    Re: Job listings of shame
    « Reply #16 on: February 03, 2026, 11:39:12 AM »
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  • I would worry about my job way more if lived in India than in US these days. AI when used correctly automates a lot of mundane codin, you still have to be on top of the game ...
    Maybe that's why they're moving here. Mr. Plumb plans to solve the problem. Good luck, buddy.

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    Offline Everlast22

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    Re: Job listings of shame
    « Reply #17 on: February 03, 2026, 12:05:11 PM »
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  • Maybe that's why they're moving here. Mr. Plumb plans to solve the problem. Good luck, buddy.
    .. Start with telling women to get married young and not go into retarded amounts of debt. These fake beard wearing/muh shotgun wielding dad types are the worst.

    I understand the college/no job thing applies to men too, but go to a 2 year school and get something under your belt.. For crying out loud, how is this BS university stuff not getting through the heads of the masses. 

    Offline Ladislaus

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    Re: Job listings of shame
    « Reply #18 on: February 04, 2026, 02:12:54 PM »
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  • Not looking good for developers, Matthew.  This is likely why companies are not hiring.  Why hire when they think more and more developers are going to be replaced by AI?


    Offline Ladislaus

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    Re: Job listings of shame
    « Reply #19 on: February 04, 2026, 02:18:50 PM »
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  • I understand the college/no job thing applies to men too, but go to a 2 year school and get something under your belt.. For crying out loud, how is this BS university stuff not getting through the heads of the masses.

    Some of the 4-year degrees are nonsense, but there are other fields that you can't get into if you don't have one.  Not many, but there are some.  I have three daughters going into Nursing, and two are doing the 4-year thing, but then ... they also got scholarships, live at home ... and it's actually rather cheap, where one of them will have no debt when she's done, the other just a little bit, nothing stupid like that link.  I have another who's doing the certificate route without the 4-year program.  1 year to LPN, making $70K per years, and then another 1.5 years to RN, making $100K per year.  2 years to 6 figures.  I found that BSNs vs. RNs only make about $2,000 - $3,000 more than straight RNs, and the difference is a bunch of garbage core curriculum.  After 3 years, just $2,000 per year less than the 4-year ones, and ... not only zero debt, but since she could work at $70K per year after a single year, she's got a significant amount of money all put away.


    Offline St Giles

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    Re: Job listings of shame
    « Reply #20 on: February 04, 2026, 08:13:10 PM »
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  •  she's got a significant amount of money all put away.
    To help support her parents after all they've done for her, right?
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    Re: Job listings of shame
    « Reply #21 on: Yesterday at 12:08:07 AM »
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  • To help support her parents after all they've done for her, right?
    I think it would depend on their arrangement but there's nothing wrong with young people wanting to save up for their own lives especially when inflation is a problem.

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    Re: Job listings of shame
    « Reply #22 on: Yesterday at 12:11:57 AM »
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  • .. Start with telling women to get married young and not go into retarded amounts of debt. These fake beard wearing/muh shotgun wielding dad types are the worst.

    I understand the college/no job thing applies to men too, but go to a 2 year school and get something under your belt.. For crying out loud, how is this BS university stuff not getting through the heads of the masses.
    I agree. I was only in university/college for a few years and the brainwashing stuff is pretty strong if you're a normie. I know people my age who went through those 4-5 years, and they came out brain-dead and they were doing STEM degrees. And, you have those crazy protests at universities. This one I linked, the professor gets arrested by the police for no reason. 



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    Re: Job listings of shame
    « Reply #23 on: Yesterday at 08:40:17 AM »
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  • I agree. I was only in university/college for a few years and the brainwashing stuff is pretty strong if you're a normie. I know people my age who went through those 4-5 years, and they came out brain-dead and they were doing STEM degrees. 

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    Re: Job listings of shame
    « Reply #24 on: Yesterday at 08:54:57 AM »
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  • Catholics should return to the skilled trades and building trades. The real builders of this country. 
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    Offline Ladislaus

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    Re: Job listings of shame
    « Reply #25 on: Yesterday at 08:58:19 AM »
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  • Catholics should return to the skilled trades and building trades. The real builders of this country.

    Sure, we'd love to ... but they've engineered things to make it difficult for someone to raise a family in those trades (where a few decades ago it was quite possible), AND Matthew and I are in situations where, quite frankly, we're a bit too old to be able to deal with the physical part of many or most such jobs.  I'll be 58 in a couple months.  Poeple USED to retired at 55, and the way things are going, I'll be working until 80.


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    Re: Job listings of shame
    « Reply #26 on: Yesterday at 08:58:54 AM »
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  • To help support her parents after all they've done for her, right?

    Perhaps, eventually ... hopefully.  But I'll probably have to work until I'm 80.

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    Re: Job listings of shame
    « Reply #27 on: Yesterday at 09:44:46 AM »
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  • Sure, we'd love to ... but they've engineered things to make it difficult for someone to raise a family in those trades (where a few decades ago it was quite possible), AND Matthew and I are in situations where, quite frankly, we're a bit too old to be able to deal with the physical part of many or most such jobs.  I'll be 58 in a couple months.  Poeple USED to retired at 55, and the way things are going, I'll be working until 80.
    The family wage manufacturing jobs have diminished due to outsourcing and automation, but the skilled trades are still very viable.  Winter quarter last year I took a welding class at our local community college.  The guy in the booth next to mine was in the third year of a five year electrician apprenticeship program, which he entered right out of high school.  He made $103,000 his second year with, albeit with a LOT of overtime.  His training costs were paid for by the union sponsoring his apprenticeship.  Having a professional welding license would enhance his skills portfolio and if he successfully achieved the certification his union would reimburse his tuition.  Similarly, those with HVAC certification, often going through a sheet metal workers apprenticeship as the pathway, will often also train for an electrician's license.  The "other side" is that these jobs can exert a greater physical toll than desk jobs, and they are often working in physically uncomfortable (and sometimes dangerous) environments.  In my view they deserve the wages they make.

    There has never been a time when the working class retired at 55, except because of physical disability.  Before the Social Security Act of 1935 most typically worked until they dropped, or if they couldn't work they had to be cared for by family or the county poor house.  Few were able to put away enough to live on without working.  When the Social Security Act passed in 1935 a retirement age of 65 was set.  The average life expectancy for a male in 1935 was 61 years.  The actuarial tables worked out well.  As people live longer obviously adjustments need to be made.

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    Re: Job listings of shame
    « Reply #28 on: Yesterday at 01:17:18 PM »
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  • There has never been a time when the working class retired at 55, except because of physical disability.

    That's simply untrue, and I aslo know of many in said class who have personally told me that their bodies are beginning to give out and they're looking for other things to do.

    There are probably SOME trades that are not SUPER physically demanding ... such as to be an electrician, though that can vary as well, but most of the others are physically very tough jobs, from plumbing to carpentry, etc.  Yes, you can still do it to a point, but it's simply inevitable that you SLOW down, you start getting back or knee problems.  Good luck trying to do one of those jobs if you've thrown your back out.  AND you're much less vigorous and your abilities are diminished.  Why do you think that professional athletes are considered washed up in their early 40s?  And these are men whose very lives revolve around working out and keeping in shape, even in the various roles that are less demanding, like you play baseball as a DH or play first base, where you don't have to exert yourself all that much, or as a catcher.  After their early 40s or so, their reflexes start to go, as do their batting averages, as perhaps their eyesite begins to fade, and so on and so forth.  That's just a fact.  So, just like with programming, NOBODY is going to want a guy who's closing in on 60 compared to taking someone in his 20s or even 30s.  After decades of experience, you could be a supervisor, a mentor to others, etc. ... but you'd have diminished role in the actual physical aspects of the job, and somebody just getting into those trades when going on 60 could never assume that type of role, where he'd be the wise sage that others would look up to and consult with.  You'd be a newbie at 60.  They hire newbies when they're young precisely to utlize their youth, energy, and their vigor ... but then as those attributes and qualities diminish, their experience and knowledge increase.  60-year-old newbie is pretty much a non-starter.

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    Re: Job listings of shame
    « Reply #29 on: Yesterday at 02:35:48 PM »
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  • Most business ideas/companies are started by men in their 50s, due to life/job experience giving them a good idea of what might be successful.  Keep your creative juices flowing...