EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

What is a job that pays well. And what's the average salary??

I believe NFL quarterback pays pretty well and they probably average 3million usd per year.

X2 That is way better than a doctor or lawyer like I was thinking.

I'm an aspiring replacement for Hugh Hefner  ;)

I'll take his seconds any day of the week  ;D

What kind of work do you want to do? I personally like working in the plants and I make good money for a 21 year old but I work hard and I work a lot. If you can handle the shift work and tons of hours the plant is a good place to be.

Im a concrete super , 67 thousand a year , need to know math , convert inchs into tenths , read plans ,finsh concrete , set all kinds of forms ,  do alot of paper work , come under budget on jobs and be able to push people including yourself and you could make it at this

If you dont have any formal training or college.  Then working in the plant is for you.  Sometime you end up working a lot of hrs but its worth it.  Youll probably start off at around $14 an hour almost anywhere as a helper.  You have to look at the long term.  Are you a bumb or not? Do you want to make a career out of what you are doing or just trying to have a job because your dads on your ass?  Are you willing to pay for your own training to move up or are you just going to settle for what they give you and stay on your tools forever and never move up?  Just a few questions you should ask yourself.  

Personally I'm not a bumb.  I went to college because my dad was on my butt about it.  I had a full time job I like and decided I wanted to make a career out of it and I did.  Finished my certificate in welding technology at a junior college.  Paid for some national recognized certifications and now I just work 40 hrs a week because I have put myself in a position where I can afford all I want and need off of 40hrs.  I think the first full year out of high school I worked I made about 40k and that was working a lot of overtime.  Every year since then I have increased my salary by 10k a year and still going.  

 I'm a equipment inspector in so we basically make sure that all the piping and vessel in a chemical plant are in good enough condition to operate and tell the client how long they will be able to operate.  You can start off as a NDE or NDT Tech.  and work you way up the pay scale pretty fast.    

If your willing to drive a truck I have been told oilfield south tx starting drivers at $35 hr
Be a pollination if you can lie cheat & steel and want to get away with it!

To add to what R Schmidt said decide if you want to work for a plant or be a contractor. There's pros and cons to both. I personally like working for a plant because I know where I'm going to report to work every day and it gives you quite a bit of stability. However some guys like working at different places regularly and you can make an ass load of money in a few months time if you work a shutdown.

Ride bulls you only have to work 8 seconds at a time and maybe 3 days a week. ;D

Admin on ETHD,

After the first year, Mike has doubled or tripled our salary every year. ;D   

If you want a good paying job, don't go into agriculture.

If I could start adulthood over, I'd lease a pasture and build out one of the metal sheds to live in. Id never have a "job" but try to always keep work.

I would go in to some kind of trade like a mechanic... change flats... some thing service oriented that is fairly simple. Then I would get a big sign that said CASH ONLY.... or CASH DISCOUNTS. ;)

Go in business for yourself. I hear meth labs do well in these parts. Cash only.

Drug cartel pays $10K a trip to Mexico and back. Not bad for a couple days of driving.

Im actually doing what T-Bob said he would do if he could start over.   Got a little pasture and building a barn house for me and the old lady paying as we go.  Sale hay off my pasture and make a little side money.  Cant beat simple living 

Im with T-Bob just become a back up NFL QB and you can make an easy 2 million a year by just wearing a ball cap and holding a play sheet.

I got a girl pregnant in 04 after my first semester of college and had to do something to support the kid
I started in 04 @$9.42 with a contractor in the plants :-\. They paid for my trade school. 2years later I finished trade school and got married to that girl. I was at $25 from 06-09

5 years in the trade I got hired by a plant in 09 @25.85 and just topped out last week at 37.25


The money is in the plants. 2-3 year trade schools are cheap and it doesnt take that long to climb the pay scale. I am a Millwright by trade. Millwright or Instrument and Electrician are two paths that will always keep you with a job. These two are dying trades with alot of older fellas looking to retire soon. 4-10's cant be beat either. You just have to figure out what you want to do, and what has the most demand.

Either you want to succeed or you want to collect a check. Your attitude determines your altitude

50k and over 100k in the plants. Depends on the overtime and the trade

Let me tell you younger fellas a thing or two about "makin good money"

Making good Money will be in your favor if you want to live out the traditional American dream, smiling wife, 2.5 kids, 1 dog (of your wife and kids choosing) and a pretty house with a white picket fence. If that's where you'd like to be eventually, then you need to get educated and work hard and with age you'll attain success.

Now, if you wanna be a hog hunting bohemian till the day you die, keep reading
Good money comes from long hours, long hours make hunting trips less frequent, but it evens out becuase you have better equipment and a nicer truck to hunt out of. Now the good money, less frequent hunting trips combined with shiny trucks and cool toys will attract a good looking girl. This is great! For a while. A good looking sweet smelling woman is going to rightfully demand more and more of your free time be spent on her and her activities, afterall, you do reasonably owe this time and these gifts to her. ( if you're doing what I think your doin)  ;) eventually this story ends in you dressed up and excited that you get to go play Golf with "the guys" and you run into a kid with a beat up truck full of dogs and a trailer full of hogs and as you get into a conversation with him, you say those inevitable words we've all heard from some poor Ol fella ,"oh yeah, I know how it goes bro, I used to have hog dogs too". RIP testicles...

Moral of the story, money ain't bad for a man, women ain't bad for a man, and a career ain't bad for a man, but they don't mean #?*! to a dog.



All tongue in cheek folks, don't get no feelings hurt.  :D

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Lmao truer words have never been spoken

Where do you work schmidt???

Ive been in Inspections for over 7 years

Nde lvl 2 ut pt mt rt vt and cawi certs.

Worked for englobal for 4 years and just got hired on with JV as a qc 2 months ago.

Nde/ndt is a great career if you dont care anymore for college than I did. I've made as much as 106k in a year.

Im a resident inspector for NDIC at BASF Freeport, TX.  I have worked for QPro in the past no longer QPro now it's mistras.  I have my API 570 had my level 2 certs pt mt ut vt.  I also certified in Guidedwave level 1 buried pipe and road crossings. 

10 4, kinda cool to see another inspector on here. I am eventually going to take my 510, 570 and 653 but i want my CWI first, id like to hit the pipelines for a while as something other than an RT tech to see how I like it.....id much rather be in the woods than a plant! I Currently work for JV doin QA/QC work at flint hills in port arthur and plan on stayin here for a while.

Butttt it interferes with our huntin, you need to let em know you have another job too. Saving the world of too many hogs. Bahahahaha

X2 LOL!!

 I'm about to go back to school to get an HVAC certification. I've heard it pays very well, and I've already been offered a job with a friends construction company.  it is a field with a lot of demand.

Some guys I work with are in there CWI class right now.   Take the 570 first it the easiest to get you ready for the 510.  I think the pipeline is the place to be but I have a easy Damn good job and it would be dumb for me to start over. Good luck on the CWI. I here it's a beast.

Just remember, if you love what you do you will never work a day in your life!

I just recently started working for lykes bro's in south Florida. Don't make number 2 for money, but get a nice house to live in, benefits and all that other stuff. I could've taken over my dad's concrete business and made damn good money, but i would hate every day of it. So i found something that i liked to do and made it happen!

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Yea the new cwi test is a killer, i only have to take 1 section this next go round so ill stomp it, but with work theres no tellin when the next go round will be!

Lol danielle says the same thing!

I went thru hvac.  It a good paying job if you work in a big city. I ran calls for two years for a contractor. Just resently left to go do hvac in the luminant coal mine. Pays double of what I was making running calls

I just graduated college with a chemical engineering degree; it took lots of years of hard work, but I got a job as a Process Engineer with a signing bonus and get every other Friday off and it doesn't pay half bad either!!!

OSHA is a good option.

i worked in surgery but decided to move to ER work with patients.

goin back to school for HVAC also. up here a guy i work with went and got his HVAC and 3 years later hes making great money and has his own buisness.

About the whole money deal,
Younger fellas t bob has it figured out! Rschmidt is one of handful of true blue ride or die friends that is with me matter what. Although we are nowhere near made the same. He likes the plant and is book smart as they come and makes very good money. Now me on the other hand I HATE the plant. I hate everything about it. From retarded out of this word rediculous safety rules that good old common cents could do away with to politics to wearing a hard hat to having a safety guy fresh out of school don't know nothing about actual work telling you how to do your job to laziness and lack of work ethic in fellow employees.....and I could go on forever! My point is don't let money decide what you do with your life. Just because you don't have nice new things and money to blow doesn't mean jack at the end of the day. Live within your means and do what you want. If you like the plant good for you have at it but don't run to it for a fat check or you will end up like me. I am a full time pipe fabricator and part time cowboy. I work in a fab shop 4 days and daywork. I am very good at what I do but I now see it is not what I wanted in life. If I could go back I would have never ever have got a job but kept steady work and would not have all these bills I can barely afford for crap I don't need and be just fine.

Mr.Blackwell only speaks the truth.  Man works for all he's got.  Never heard the man lie its good advice for a young man to follow.