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VolPhoneMan:
Hi everyone,
This is my first post. I have spent a couple days reading and looking around. I got out of the Navy in 1998. Spent 5 years and got a medical discharge (though with zero disability, go figure). I finished my time as a ET2 and qualified SRO on the USS South Carolina. I currently work for AT&T and make between 60 and 70k with a little overtime and really very little stress (compared to what navy drills were like). However, I seem to have hit a ceiling where I work and am trying to work around it. I am just a couple hours away from finishing a bachelors degree in nuclear technology from either TESC or Excelsior (trying to hash out the most efficient path right now). I have looked around and though there is quite a bit of info on salary and careers etc, I just thought I would ask for some direct advice. Assuming I stay in the South East, does swithching to a nuke career from a pretty cushy job making fairly good money sound like a good decision in the long run. What is the upper limit on earnings in a nuke career? what is a realistic time frame for getting into a decent job? Am I going to have to take a pay cut to get into the industry? Also, if anyone knows of the job market in East Tennesse area, some information on where to start searching for a job would be awesome. Thanks in advance. This site is wonderful, I wish I had found it or something like it on my way out of the navy.
PWHoppe:
--- Quote from: VolPhoneMan on Aug 28, 2007, 01:38 ---Hi everyone,
This is my first post. I have spent a couple days reading and looking around. I got out of the Navy in 1998. Spent 5 years and got a medical discharge (though with zero disability, go figure). I finished my time as a ET2 and qualified SRO on the USS South Carolina. I currently work for AT&T and make between 60 and 70k with a little overtime and really very little stress (compared to what navy drills were like). However, I seem to have hit a ceiling where I work and am trying to work around it. I am just a couple hours away from finishing a bachelors degree in nuclear technology from either TESC or Excelsior (trying to hash out the most efficient path right now). I have looked around and though there is quite a bit of info on salary and careers etc, I just thought I would ask for some direct advice. Assuming I stay in the South East, does swithching to a nuke career from a pretty cushy job making fairly good money sound like a good decision in the long run. What is the upper limit on earnings in a nuke career? what is a realistic time frame for getting into a decent job? Am I going to have to take a pay cut to get into the industry? Also, if anyone knows of the job market in East Tennesse area, some information on where to start searching for a job would be awesome. Thanks in advance. This site is wonderful, I wish I had found it or something like it on my way out of the navy.
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Welcome to NukeWorker ;D and before you hear from BZ and Hydro ;) let me just say, try the search function, most if not all of your questions have been asked and answered. Of course what you should do as far as giving up a "cushy job" vs. going into the power industry will not be answered and I don't think it can. That will be a personal choice decided by you after looking at the pro's and con's of each career path. Good Luck in your search of the site. 8)
Note courtesy of RDT:
On the site front page (click on the Home tab at the top of the page) there is a 'New Search Function' comment on the right. The is a somewhat hidden link (because it is blue on blue) just above where it says 'continue reading.' If you move your mouse over the link it will become a hand pointing at the link. Click when the hand appears. You should go right to the search page.
hamsamich:
you might want to consider working elsewhere if you don't like stress. as a technician or an unlicensed operator you can't make too much more than you are already making. to go beyond 100k you have to start thinking abount being a first line supervisor, licenesed operator, or working quite a bit of OT, especially in the south. then you would be dealing with quite a bit of stress! I've seen some indications that the pay hike that people who work in nuclear power seem to enjoy vs other industry is erroding compared to the way it used to be. that is just my opinion, and may not be the case. best case you could make close to 40 bucks an hour at a few nuc plants as a top technician, but usually the cost of living offsets the raise there. I think places like Indian Point and Diablo pay that much. So working moderate OT maybe you could make 95 a year BEST CASE? just a guess, but i don't know if it worth it to you to change jobs for that.
navytwinmom:
--- Quote from: VolPhoneMan on Aug 28, 2007, 01:38 ---I currently work for AT&T and make between 60 and 70k with a little overtime and really very little stress....does swithching to a nuke career from a pretty cushy job making fairly good money sound like a good decision in the long run.
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Please take a nuke job and send me an application for your job...I would love a cushy low stress 60-70K job!!
Welcome to the site. Hope you find all the infomation you need
Take care
biloxoi blues:
Yes you should travel six to seventh months out of the year and enjoy the United States. Stay in places like Homestead Fl, Forked River NJ, Waynesboro Ga, Peekskill, NY and Benton Harobur, MI. Live the life of a traveling carnival. Meet and work with interesting people. Work 72 hours a week sometimes nightshift. Treated at plants like a rock star. Find Marijuna at your doorstep (homestead). Cushy jobs are so boring get out and live. It dont get no better than a traveling contractor.
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