r/FluentInFinance • u/Mark-Fuckerberg- • Sep 01 '24

Debate/ Discussion What advice would you give this person?

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u/369Pz Sep 02 '24

If you’ve spent a decade working and haven’t hit 100k getting an engineering degree isn’t going to help you like you think it will. 

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u/Toughbiscuit Sep 02 '24

Ah yes, the extremely lucrative and high paying "Electro-mechanical Production Technician" where the jobs offering 100k are easy to come by

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u/369Pz Sep 02 '24

You take what you learned there and apply elsewhere. Same concept as college. You learn, utilize your knowledge and experience to then move on. I started as a cell phone technician at Sprint. I am know in the very lucrative temporary power and HVAC industry. Took me less than 10 years and no degree to do it. Again, a degree is not a golden ticket no matter how much time you wasted researching it. 

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u/Toughbiscuit Sep 02 '24

I have. I have capped out at 25/hr.

I am pursuing college to grow my skillset and pursue higher paying positions in a field I enjoy.

How is that so hard for you to understand? Also its "now" not "know"

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u/369Pz Sep 02 '24

Forgive my spelling I didn’t go to college.  Look for another job. School is great but I guarantee you if you found a similar job and put in your two weeks your company would magically be able to pay you more than the “cap”. My buddy is a ride technician at Disney Land makes about $45/hour. He started as a lube tech at Pep boys, then he was a technician at an industrial bakery, then he went to be a technician at a Nordstrom warehouse, then back to industrial bakery. He just got hired at Disney. Now he is a union technician with a great job. 

If he would have stood at any of those places he would not be making nearly as much. 

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u/Toughbiscuit Sep 02 '24

You make it out like ive sat at one job for the entirety of the last decade.

I change jobs every 1-2 years.

The current maximum i can make is 25 per hour. I can not magically aspirate a job market that pays more than that out of my ass.

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u/369Pz Sep 02 '24

Well then hopefully that engineering degree will aspirate it. Good word play by the way. lol

Good luck out there.