What do you do for a living?

[oxrufiioxo]

What does/did you wife do for a career? Maybe I need a change.........working to 65+ sound less exciting every year..........

Speech language pathologists.

I was a Nurse so we both made a decent wage she's consistently made 10-15 usd more than I have per hour from 2014-2022 then in 2023 she got a job making nearly double what I was per hour worked anyways

I'm not sure if you can search every state but at least in California it's easy to look up specifically what you would make per year for just about every district, My wife is on the 4th step currently you go up with every year of service/experience she had 2 years in the schools and 9 in Medical so only 2 years counted when she made the switch in 2023. Not sure how it works in other states or countries though. The biggest perk honestly is she only has to work about 50% of the days in a year so she has a lot of time off and typically only 6.5-7.5 hours per day depending on IEP meetings but the varies district to district where she as at right now the case loads aren't bad but in some areas they are pretty brutal.






Seems like the median up there in Canada is 90K I am not sure if that is good or bad it does require a Masters degree here so 6+ years of school not sure about up there.

Otherwise it's definitely a great field to be in and even if you work till you are 65 the amount of time off every year is pretty nice.

 

[mechtech]

Speech language pathologists.

I was a Nurse so we both made a decent wage she's consistently made 10-15 usd more than I have per hour from 2014-2022 then in 2023 she got a job making nearly double what I was per hour worked anyways

I'm not sure if you can search every state but at least in California it's easy to look up specifically what you would make per year for just about every district, My wife is on the 4th step currently you go up with every year of service/experience she had 2 years in the schools and 9 in Medical so only 2 years counted when she made the switch in 2023. Not sure how it works in other states or countries though. The biggest perk honestly is she only has to work about 50% of the days in a year so she has a lot of time off and typically only 6.5-7.5 hours per day depending on IEP meetings but the varies district to district where she as at right now the case loads aren't bad but in some areas they are pretty brutal.


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Seems like the median up there in Canada is 90K I am not sure if that is good or bad it does require a Masters degree here so 6+ of school years not sure about up there.

Otherwise it's definitely a great field to be in and even if you work till you're 65 at it the time off every year is pretty nice.

Ya I really enjoy my job, its the time off that is the down side, I just got my 4th week vacation (and we don't shut down at Christmas) at 45yrs old. Wife is nurse so she is 12-hr shiftwork throw in 2 kids and some days I feel like a single parent that works 355 days/yr. I told my manager during a performance review I'd take a 10k/yr pay hit for 4 more weeks vacation.........no dice lol But I consider myself very lucky and fortunate as the pay is very good and the pension and benefits are great as well...........just need to live to 90 and stay healthy to enjoy it

 

[oxrufiioxo]

Ya I really enjoy my job, its the time off that is the down side, I just got my 4th week vacation (and we don't shut down at Christmas) at 45yrs old. Wife is nurse so she is 12-hr shiftwork throw in 2 kids and some days I feel like a single parent that works 355 days/yr. I told my manager during a performance review I'd take a 10k/yr pay hit for 4 more weeks vacation.........no dice lol But I consider myself very lucky and fortunate as the pay is very good and the pension and benefits are great as well...........just need to live to 90 and stay healthy to enjoy it

The last year I worked full time was in 2022 and they never gave us time off. We work six 12 hour shifts per pay period and they always wanted us to shift our days in order to take time off if we were lucky we got a couple weeks. Nursing shortages and just generally being short staff is the main culprit prior to the pandemic it wasn't so bad. I scaled back from 12 to 8 days per month in 2023 and then from 8 to 4 days in 2024 to now 0 in 2025 baby lol.

My Dog needing chemo actually is what kept me on the last year or else I might have retired sooner but even though we have everything all set up and everything looks fantastic taking that jump to no longer working is a huge step especially because I will not be drawing my retirement till I hit 62.

Also not being able to buy stupid shit frequently is hard because I like stupid shit lol.

Anyone that has a job, has a roof over their head, and doesn't have to worry about their next meal is fortunate honestly and I'm not religious but I do feel blessed to be able to spend the majority of time with my family over the next 20+ years and now just hope for decent enough health to do that.

 

[mechtech]

The last year I worked full time was in 2022 and they never gave us time off. We work six 12 hour shifts per pay period and they always wanted us to shift our days in order to take time off if we were lucky we got a couple weeks. Nursing shortages and just generally being short staff is the main culprit prior to the pandemic it wasn't so bad. I scaled back from 12 to 8 days per month in 2023 and then from 8 to 4 days in 2024 to now 0 in 2025 baby lol.

My Dog needing chemo actually is what kept me on the last year or else I might have retired sooner but even though we have everything all set up and everything looks fantastic taking that jump to no longer working is a huge step especially because I will not be drawing my retirement till I hit 62.

Also not being able to buy stupid shit frequently is hard because I like stupid shit lol.

Anyone that has a job, has a roof over their head, and doesn't have to worry about their next meal is fortunate honestly and I'm not religious but I do feel blessed to be able to spend the majority of time with my family over the next 20+ years and now just hope for decent enough health to do that.

Yes.
Sad thing is when I talk to my dad when he started out mid-early 70's he said there was lots of good paying jobs, could typically pay for a vehicle with 6 months work and a house in 2-3years.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

Yes.
Sad thing is when I talk to my dad when he started out mid-early 70's he said there was lots of good paying jobs, could typically pay for a vehicle with 6 months work and a house in 2-3years.

Things have gotten really hard I thought owning multiple houses and having rental properties like my parents did was normal growing up... Now people are lucky to own 1 house which would include me.

 

[Macro Device]

Speaking of real estate... I was eyeing the listings in Bloemfontein (South Africa) just out of sheer curiosity. 20 grand buys me a small apartment. 100 grand is enough to buy a fattie. I'll probably settle on something far more reasonable like 45 thousand if I like this city enough to move there in the first place. But that's a next year endeavor...

 

[TheEndIsNear]

Control Room Operator at a power plant. 12 hours swing shift sucks

 

[68Olds]

Control Room Operator at a power plant. 12 hours swing shift sucks

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

 

[Rover4444]

... Living?

 

[Zareek]

Control Room Operator at a power plant. 12 hours swing shift sucks

That sounds like a really shitty way to run something like that. 12 hours is too damn long for someone to be doing that sort of task on swings. Same thing with nurses. I spent about a year doing IT at a hospital, they work nurses like dogs. In my 20s, I was in the Air Force working on aircraft. We did a lot of 12 hour shifts. I worked swings a good portion of the time too, quite often 7 days a week. I got burned out fast, that's the biggest reason I got out. I'm in my 40s now and there is no damn way I could do 12 hour swing shifts. I'd be falling asleep on the job all the time.