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World Traveler
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| Can you elaborate on that? |
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Adam Carolla
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| Posted: Mon May 05, 2014 7:11 am Post subject: |
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| World Traveler wrote: |
| Can you elaborate on that? |
Do you have a specific question? I'll be happy to answer to the best of my knowledge. |
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World Traveler
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| Posted: Mon May 05, 2014 7:13 am Post subject: |
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| Yes. What kind of work did you do there? |
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Adam Carolla
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| Posted: Mon May 05, 2014 12:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Yes. What kind of work did you do there? |
That's an oddly non-specific question. I have no idea what kind of info you'll be able to pull from my answer.
Service tech for six months.
MWD tech for 1 year.
Office equipment service tech, 18 months.
Office equipment sales, 6 months. |
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Adam Carolla
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| Posted: Wed May 07, 2014 1:05 pm Post subject: |
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| WT, I'm curious what you learned from my answer to your question. |
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Okie from Muskogee
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| Posted: Wed May 07, 2014 8:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Adam Carolla wrote: |
| World Traveler wrote: |
| Yes. What kind of work did you do there? |
That's an oddly non-specific question. I have no idea what kind of info you'll be able to pull from my answer.
Service tech for six months.
MWD tech for 1 year.
Office equipment service tech, 18 months.
Office equipment sales, 6 months. |
I thought for a moment that you were a Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) tech.  |
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World Traveler
Joined: 29 May 2009
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| Posted: Wed May 07, 2014 9:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Adam Carolla wrote: |
| WT, I'm curious what you learned from my answer to your question. |
Nothing really, because you didn't mention how much those jobs pay or the necessary preparation/requirements to get into them. Would you say it's not worth it to get into that line of work? |
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World Traveler
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| Posted: Thu May 08, 2014 4:38 am Post subject: |
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| Just another reason to not go back to Rip-off Britain.........or Broken Britain........or whatever you want to call it to describe how it's going to hell in a hand basket. |
C'mon, man. It's not that bad.
Check out the 2014 better life index:
#1 Australia
#5 Canada
#7 United States
#10 New Zealand
#12 U.K.
#15 Ireland
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/05/05/business/oecd-quality-of-life/
The U.K. ranked significantly above average, as did other countries we are from. |
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World Traveler
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| Posted: Thu May 08, 2014 4:44 am Post subject: |
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Is Korea better than the U.K.? Maybe, maybe not, but by some measures, the U.K. is better off (and offers a superior standard of living).
U.K.-
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| The level of atmospheric PM10 – tiny air pollutant particles small enough to enter and cause damage to the lungs – is 12.8 micrograms per cubic meter, considerably lower than the OECD average |
http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/countries/united-kingdom/
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| The level of atmospheric PM10 – tiny air pollutant particles small enough to enter and cause damage to the lungs – is 30.3 micrograms per cubic meter, considerably higher than the OECD average |
http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/countries/korea/
Life satisfaction in the U.K.- 7.2/10; in Korea- 4.2/10. |
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le-paul
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| Posted: Thu May 08, 2014 5:00 am Post subject: |
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I went back to the UK for 3 months last year. Yes the hostel was a little expensive at 10 quid a night with a free continental breakfast, and the bus at 1.50 every time I wanted to travel across the country (or even the 4.50 I paid to go to the Netherlands and France) and Tescos sandwiches a right rip off at 99p, but you know what - I loved every minute of it.  |
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radcon
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| Posted: Thu May 08, 2014 5:24 am Post subject: |
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| I went back to the UK for 3 months last year. Yes the hostel was a little expensive at 10 quid a night with a free continental breakfast, and the bus at 1.50 every time I wanted to travel across the country (or even the 4.50 I paid to go to the Netherlands and France) and Tescos sandwiches a right rip off at 99p, but you know what - I loved every minute of it. |
I can't tell if you are being sarcastic. |
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le-paul
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| Posted: Thu May 08, 2014 5:35 am Post subject: |
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Really not (at least I was about the costs...).
I used to hate England when I was younger. Last couple of times I went back, I realized the small things Id overlooked.
There are a lot worse places than England to live, plus its a lot easier to get around Europe than it used to be.
Rough and smooth... |
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fezmond
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| Posted: Thu May 08, 2014 6:30 am Post subject: |
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| I went back to the UK for 3 months last year. Yes the hostel was a little expensive at 10 quid a night with a free continental breakfast, and the bus at 1.50 every time I wanted to travel across the country (or even the 4.50 I paid to go to the Netherlands and France) and Tescos sandwiches a right rip off at 99p, but you know what - I loved every minute of it. |
Megabus? |
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le-paul
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Adam Carolla
Joined: 26 Feb 2010
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| Posted: Thu May 08, 2014 7:56 am Post subject: |
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| Adam Carolla wrote: |
| WT, I'm curious what you learned from my answer to your question. |
Nothing really, because you didn't mention how much those jobs pay or the necessary preparation/requirements to get into them. Would you say it's not worth it to get into that line of work? |
I didn't mention that stuff because you didn't ask. I did ask you to be specific.
Most of the jobs, minus the last, didn't have any kind of requirement at all other than to show up and not be an idiot.
The first job, oilfield service technician, paid $65,000/year starting with full health, company vehicle, and a $40 per diem. It was also on-call 24/7 with an 8 days on/3 days off schedule. The work was mostly outdoors, involved a lot of driving, and was all hours of the day. It was...not worth it.
MWD technician would have been a great job had I been single. The requirements are basically, have a decent working knowledge of computers, plus have a little mechanical aptitude. The pay was something on the order of $100k+/year depending on how many days you worked. The schedule was 12 hour shifts from the time a rig started drilling until it finished. Typically 25-30 days in a row. Then you'd typically have about 2 weeks off. It was an indoor job 95% of the time, and the remaining 5% of the time was up on the extremely dangerous rig floor.
Was this job "worth it"? If you weren't interested in being a decent husband/father, yes.
Office equipment tech. A basic 40 hour/week job. The pay was so hideously bad that I won't mention it. The only reason I was able to take this job and survive was that I had outside income. Requirements...none really.
Office equipment sales. Salaried job which I got on the basis of being a tech. Pay is commission. This is the position that I'll be making a (hopefully lucrative) career of. |
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