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AO Starting Pay
zwink:
--- Quote ---No education or experience? Now you are smoking crack! You will find a navy nuke fresh out of the service has more experience than you can shake a stick at for operating a plant.
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I wasn't trying to say that navy wasn't experience. I was trying to say this plant says it hires people for the AO position w/o any experience whatsoever; IE: a high school graduate. Whether that has happened or not, who knows.
--- Quote ---I started at 23 and change and will go to 34 in May after 1 and half years. Will top out at 40ish in about 24 months.
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That is just insane... good job :)
HydroDave63:
--- Quote from: zwink on Apr 29, 2009, 07:26 ---
I think if more people knew what these jobs paid with virtually no education / experience req., they would be much more competitive than they already are.
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It's still a competition. I once saw a Region IV plant run full page ads in the paper to get every shape,flavor,hue and persuasion to apply. Over 500 in line, with free pizza and pop and movies on what an AO does.
Between no show/no pass of either POSS test, piss test, interview or common sense.... that utility ended up with a class of about 20 ex-Navy nukes. Having the high score on the POSS test won't overcome someone else's better interview skills or "Resume Poker"
zwink:
Thats probably because 450/500 of them were navy nukes to start with :)
I remember out of high school they tried to get me to go to Navy Nuke school in Charleston w/ something like a 6 year total commitment. Their overly repetitive selling point was almost verbatim, "...and when you get out, you'll be making 6 figures at a nuclear power plant". They were not selling the Navy, but what you make when you get out (largely because the Navy doesn't pay poo, especially to enlisted). I always found myself wondering about the supply versus demand for ejected Navy personnel at these plants. Regardless, it seems all of the ex-navy are trying their hardest to make their recruiters speech come true. I would be to... but as we all know, unless its in writing...
One guy at the test (ex-navy) said he had been applying for 6 years to get an AO position at a nuke plant, and this was his first phone call back. He was very "confident"; I hope he passed after waiting that long.
HydroDave63:
--- Quote from: zwink on Apr 30, 2009, 08:12 ---Thats probably because 450/500 of them were navy nukes to start with :)
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You missed the whole point of the post. Thank you for proving my point.
zwink:
I actually thought the point was that ex navy nukes get free pizza and star in movies about power plant operators. Damn I bet I bombed the reading portion ;)
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