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big_bad_buff
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I’m going through an apprentice plumbing program, it will be commission based in 2 months. The guys that have been doing it for years bring in $50k-$60k a year, I’d bring in $35-$40k my first year(if I worked fulltime). My boss told me I could go to school part-time and work a weekend twice a month if I wanted.
I have a full pel grant to go to school for visual communications (web design, graphic design, multimedia etc) I’d have to pay $120 a semester to cover the rest plus books….i would have to get up at 5:30 mon and weds and drive 45 min to the ferry, take the ferry (30 min) across the water to seattle, drive 20 min to school, get there by 9:30 in the morning, be done with classes by 3:30, dig through traffic back to the ferry(probably 30 min drive in traffic) take the 30 min ferry back, then drive 45 min back home…ferry cost $15 each way, so $60 a week or $240 a month $620 a semester. Or take the bus which will cut it down to about $150 a month and make my round trip an extra hour or so longer….while working 3 and 4 days a week and who knows how much I will end up making being my first year doing the job, plus all the gas I will spend etc. the pay off after two years would be great but seems like a huge headach…..would you guys go for it and take the chance now while I’m single and no kids, or wait a year and go next year and maybe move closer to a school or out of state or something with the job experience? Who the fuck knows whats going to happened next year……would you guys go for it, or work this job a year and get the experience to be able to get a job anywhere in the united states making decent money, and possibly go to school another time for this kind of degree……the work sucks but it’s great experience hands on that people pay money to go learn, and they are paying me while I learn, I just don’t want to do it forever.
I have a full pel grant to go to school for visual communications (web design, graphic design, multimedia etc) I’d have to pay $120 a semester to cover the rest plus books….i would have to get up at 5:30 mon and weds and drive 45 min to the ferry, take the ferry (30 min) across the water to seattle, drive 20 min to school, get there by 9:30 in the morning, be done with classes by 3:30, dig through traffic back to the ferry(probably 30 min drive in traffic) take the 30 min ferry back, then drive 45 min back home…ferry cost $15 each way, so $60 a week or $240 a month $620 a semester. Or take the bus which will cut it down to about $150 a month and make my round trip an extra hour or so longer….while working 3 and 4 days a week and who knows how much I will end up making being my first year doing the job, plus all the gas I will spend etc. the pay off after two years would be great but seems like a huge headach…..would you guys go for it and take the chance now while I’m single and no kids, or wait a year and go next year and maybe move closer to a school or out of state or something with the job experience? Who the fuck knows whats going to happened next year……would you guys go for it, or work this job a year and get the experience to be able to get a job anywhere in the united states making decent money, and possibly go to school another time for this kind of degree……the work sucks but it’s great experience hands on that people pay money to go learn, and they are paying me while I learn, I just don’t want to do it forever.
