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patriotthad

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For a machinist, where is the best place to live? Such things as number of opportunities, pay, cost of living etc. Some times there are some really good jobs but, they are in really inconvenient places. Any thoughts?
 
Some say netherlands, some say switzerland... Wherever they make the lasers to measure the red hairs for calibration... NIST maybe?
 
Some times there are some really good jobs but, they are in really inconvenient places. Any thoughts?

Those inconvenient locations pay a lot BECAUSE they are inconvenient. You want to work on an oilfield in Middle-of-Nowhere North Dakota, yea, it's going to pay well. Mike Rowe did a segment where he talked about welders making well into 6-figure incomes out there.

You need to find your own balance of inconvenient and income.

Steve
 
Those inconvenient locations pay a lot BECAUSE they are inconvenient. You want to work on an oilfield in Middle-of-Nowhere North Dakota, yea, it's going to pay well. Mike Rowe did a segment where he talked about welders making well into 6-figure incomes out there.

You need to find your own balance of inconvenient and income.

Steve

North face Alaska comes to mind. Did some structural consultation back in the day on a 'drilling fluid production facility' they were planning to put up there. During some of the meetings we BS'd about living conditions, how workers compensation was, and all that. Oilfield in general pays well if you're not going home every day/week, but those guys were raking it in. But at a big personal cost, admittedly.

Best place for a machinist depends on what you want in life. Money? Find the shittiest shithole in Shitsville. That's where you can have mediocre skills and get big fucking dollars you can save up. You'll just burn out quick. Or spend it all on booze and loose women and two divorces and child support, never seeing the fruits of those big dollars, wondering why you ever did it in the first place. Seems to be the only two ways it happens. Big savings or big regrets.

Maybe you just want beautiful scenery and to be able to hunt on your own land every turkey/deer/elk/pheasant season. Then you take whatever job's in range of the property you can afford/find/inherit.

Maybe you just want a job in an industry you have a hardon for like geology/auto racing/undersea drilling/whatever. Then you just take whatever job'll have you at a good-enough wage, and plan to relocate.

Some may just want a steady job with a boss that's admirable and respectable.

Seriously it's a big open question.
 








 
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