We're in the WRONG trade guys!

[dufjax]

Looks like we picked the wrong trade. Electricians earn £156,000 a year....... Well according to the Daily Fail Mail... So it must be fact!!

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4874400/Electricians-earning-156-000-year.html

[norman]

Not even going to increase their clickage, if the DM said good morning I'd look outside to check, shitrag.

[PeterJames]

4 hours ago, dufjax said:

Looks like we picked the wrong trade. Electricians earn £156,000 a year....... Well according to the Daily Fail Mail... So it must be fact!!

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4874400/Electricians-earning-156-000-year.html

I saw an alarm engineer vacancy at £80k a while back, but I would guess a pound of flesh would be the requirement for the wage.

[norman]

It's all about the hourly rate, anyone can earn 80k (if the works there) but they still may be on a 'meh' hourly rate.

[goncall]

my mates son was earning that as a spark,he was in afgan tho ,lived on site no alcohol no internet and you risked your life every day,worth the risk? not for me

[datadiffusion]

Agreed, remember those network engineers gunned down in Checynya a few years back, and that was after the main conflict had so say ended.

[goncall]

theres money to be made if you take the risk,old man worked in war zones in the mid to late 70's as a spark was coming out with £300 a week which was about the same as this 150k thing, think the average take home pay in the uk was around £50 a week back then

[sjsturner]

Bet he cleared the mortage quick with that!

is it still lucrative on the rigs?

[goncall]

Just now, sjsturner said:

Bet he cleared the mortage quick with that!

is it still lucrative on the rigs?

its all relative as you move up the housing ladder i guess,he worked the rigs later on but not the same money i dont think the rigs pay v risk is great these days

[sjsturner]

Proper grafter then, fair play.

the money should be good when your working away. Was talking to a woman I know today who said her bloke is going from working in Germany to Kuwait for a year because the money is so good, she said it's great because the mortgage will be paid off soon, thing is though he sees his two kids a few weeks a year and don't do f all with them, been working away about 5 years now. I feel sorry for him if he thinks that's living.