12-01-2013, 03:53 AM
Pander75,
One of the greatest gifts in life is to have work that you love, but no matter how much I may love what I do for work 190 days a year, like most people, I have bills to pay and the need to save for the day when I am too old to work in my profession, which means I do care about the money. Maybe in some idealized airy fairy world out there, people who do work they enjoy can do it for free, but in the real world everyone I know also has to make money, it just really improves your life if you like the work you do for money. The best advice my mother ever gave me about career choices was this: Find something you really like to do, then get really good at it! It is not enough to be passionate about what you do, you also have to be good at it.
In our society, money is how we reward people; when I was a crafts person the greatest compliment ever paid to me was not when someone walked past my booth and said how beautiful my work was, it was when someone pulled a hard earned 20 dollar bill out of their packet and gave it to me so they could have a piece of my work. Words are cheap, but money that represented 2 or 3 hours of work out of someone's life, that meant something, and it helped me feed my kids and pay my bills.
Back to the original topic: x-ray techs only need 2 years of school and as the Puna population grows and grows older, we will need more of them, any medical technicians really. Respiratory techs can make $100,000 a year within 3 years of getting out of school, although maybe not in Puna, heavy equipment mechanics are in demand here, so are diesel mechanics, lava is hard on that equipment.
Carol
One of the greatest gifts in life is to have work that you love, but no matter how much I may love what I do for work 190 days a year, like most people, I have bills to pay and the need to save for the day when I am too old to work in my profession, which means I do care about the money. Maybe in some idealized airy fairy world out there, people who do work they enjoy can do it for free, but in the real world everyone I know also has to make money, it just really improves your life if you like the work you do for money. The best advice my mother ever gave me about career choices was this: Find something you really like to do, then get really good at it! It is not enough to be passionate about what you do, you also have to be good at it.
In our society, money is how we reward people; when I was a crafts person the greatest compliment ever paid to me was not when someone walked past my booth and said how beautiful my work was, it was when someone pulled a hard earned 20 dollar bill out of their packet and gave it to me so they could have a piece of my work. Words are cheap, but money that represented 2 or 3 hours of work out of someone's life, that meant something, and it helped me feed my kids and pay my bills.
Back to the original topic: x-ray techs only need 2 years of school and as the Puna population grows and grows older, we will need more of them, any medical technicians really. Respiratory techs can make $100,000 a year within 3 years of getting out of school, although maybe not in Puna, heavy equipment mechanics are in demand here, so are diesel mechanics, lava is hard on that equipment.
Carol
Carol
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb