How much do you make?
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i figure throughout co-op ill make between 30-45k. im hoping to save almost all if not all of it. i also believe like bluejay said earlier in paying a vehicle off the day you buy it if your finances allow it. i hope to do really well in Mech Eng. where i can do this. you would be suprised how smart some of the kids are these days. but im not going to argue that alot of kids are really stupid. i just cant stand how the older people of the forum classify us as the stupid generation who have no logics or responsibility when you asks us what we make and then look at our trucks and just assume we are idiots. not saying everyone does it but alot do. just ask us before you start criticizing us.
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I am a union millwright. Working for the same contracor for the last 13yrs. Average is about 75k. I've gone as high as 96.6. Just shy of 100k. I hosed myself because I could have made the extra 400 bucks if I didn't take the last two months of the year off. In 13 yrs I've put away roughly 120k for retirement through the union. Now just to finish off my 18yr till retirement.
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Ya know ... I was kind of feeling your posts and than you go off with this attitude like you're better than everyone else. Give it a rest, you're just making yourself sound like an *** every time you post. 
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I have been working as a Civil Engineer for 14 years and I make $105k plus another $10k in bonus. When I started, I began at $27,500. New grads in civil engineering begin at around $53k.
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thats like a 7k raise a year! just keep hoping it goes that way til you retire!
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everytime teenagers or college students post what they make, what they spend it on,
all the "old" people get all pissed off because we have trucks with mods in them. thats what we love so thats where we put our money. dont judge us just because we have money now and spend it. every adult i have ever talked to saved money for cars when they were kids and then spent their money on that car. same freakin concept for us.
we get paid more than 25 cents an hour like all of yall did. i still save my money. like i said in another post i have 4k in the bank. im 18. obviously i have some common sense on spending or i would have ALOT more money into my truck and other toys. and just like yal say were so stereotypical blowing our money away yal are so stereotypical to complain about how we spend our money. just chill out and get back to what the OP was asking.
i just turned 17. still working at my first job as a register op. at wendy's for 25 hrs a week. earning $6.89/hr before taxes. cant wait to move up. going to college for a Bachelor's in Aeronautical Science and either might be a pilot for the state (FHP or FDOT) or pilot for EMS.
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Me too! I have been averaging 6-7% raises the past couple of years. I got a nice bump when I passed the PE exam.
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It's not about how much you make,,it's about how good your credit is and how far in dept your willing to go to have a nice toy!!!
Oh yeah,
I'm a heavy equipment operator out of work for 8 months now. My last job was $20 an hour...
Phil
Oh yeah,
I'm a heavy equipment operator out of work for 8 months now. My last job was $20 an hour...
Phil
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school is great but dont be a jacka$$ preaching about it making those that choose to not go to school sound worthless. i quit school after finishing one year for an oppurtunity that might not come around to me again. after i get done with all my physical stuff and what not ill be an employee of the Norfolk Southern Railroad. Safests class one railroad in the US for 19 years straight if anyone cares lol. but anyway. starting out this year as a 20 year old im looking at 40-60K, this is at 80% wages. after 5 years ill get to full wages. i dont pay into SS but railroad retirement instead. so instead of being some young idiot who doesnt save, i will be taking roughly 10% of my check and putting that into my retirement fund while my employer matches that with roughly 12.5%. pretty good deal there huh. After one year of employement ill be able to start a 401K. which i will. yes i live at home and that helps ALOT. but that doesnt mean i dont help my mother with bills.
so not only am i not going to school, i am going to saving a ton of money for later on in my life but i am also going to making a very healthy living. so much for being young and dumb huh. some of us grew up a long time ago. most of us not by choice. so please stop preaching down to us. for a few it is needed. for most it is not. there is also something to be said for live and learn.
so not only am i not going to school, i am going to saving a ton of money for later on in my life but i am also going to making a very healthy living. so much for being young and dumb huh. some of us grew up a long time ago. most of us not by choice. so please stop preaching down to us. for a few it is needed. for most it is not. there is also something to be said for live and learn.
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school is great but dont be a jacka$$ preaching about it making those that choose to not go to school sound worthless. i quit school after finishing one year for an oppurtunity that might not come around to me again. after i get done with all my physical stuff and what not ill be an employee of the Norfolk Southern Railroad. Safests class one railroad in the US for 19 years straight if anyone cares lol. but anyway. starting out this year as a 20 year old im looking at 40-60K, this is at 80% wages. after 5 years ill get to full wages. i dont pay into SS but railroad retirement instead. so instead of being some young idiot who doesnt save, i will be taking roughly 10% of my check and putting that into my retirement fund while my employer matches that with roughly 12.5%. pretty good deal there huh. After one year of employement ill be able to start a 401K. which i will. yes i live at home and that helps ALOT. but that doesnt mean i dont help my mother with bills.
so not only am i not going to school, i am going to saving a ton of money for later on in my life but i am also going to making a very healthy living. so much for being young and dumb huh. some of us grew up a long time ago. most of us not by choice. so please stop preaching down to us. for a few it is needed. for most it is not. there is also something to be said for live and learn.
so not only am i not going to school, i am going to saving a ton of money for later on in my life but i am also going to making a very healthy living. so much for being young and dumb huh. some of us grew up a long time ago. most of us not by choice. so please stop preaching down to us. for a few it is needed. for most it is not. there is also something to be said for live and learn.
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sorry if i came off like that, just trying to point out that there are always other options of you know the right places to look.
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Aside from that, I'm glad for everyone, and congratz to you all in being able to make it this far. It's nice that we can live in a country where we can live the way we want, even if it means receiving a bit of criticism every now and then. Anywho, I say good job, and good luck to you all.. Hopefully we can atleast agree on our choice of truck, even if we have nothing else in common.
But you're right.. I'll give it a rest..
