If you go into the Navy as a Nuke, you are trained for commercial work.....
not,...
you are demonstrably trainable for commercial work, not trained for commercial work,...
........If you are not Navy trained, is it worth the cost of the education to work in a dying career path, as all my nuclear training is worthless outside of the nuclear field?.........
you're typing of yourself and your experience,...
the difference is maybe 15 to 20 percent for transferable nuke skills to non-nuke work,...
which still leaves you in the upper half of the median wage category for US of A workers,...
if you must have that 15% to 20% you're on the financial edge already,...
analogous to folks being "hooked" on perdiem as part of their income, which per diem should not be,...
most folks just like that extra percentage for being an occupational rad worker, ergo they never leave nuke or come back as it suits them,...
...(Remember buggy whip training and slide ruler manufacturing are useless skills today)...
again not,...
you do need to be awful dam good at it though if you want to command the compensation rate needed to earn a living because the market is very small and exclusive for both endeavours,...
but if you're good enough, you can make that living,...
there is just no longer a market for the "oh by the ways" and the "also rans",...
but the masters can still get by,...
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