Your job?

[Murfreesboro]

Yes, I've always heard that nursing is a good profession for employment. Trouble is, I have never been turned to want to be in any medical field.

[666daGorehound666]

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[Li H'Sen Chang]

Anyone know how much money karate senseis make? My grandma wants me to be instructor so maybe I will find out about it?

[Pumpkin_Man]

Karate and Marttial Arts instructors in general make pretty lousy money. Even those who own their own schools find it hard to eek out a living.

Murf, I don't care for the medical field, either. I am easily grossed out by certain things that I won't mention on this 'family friendly' web site, in addition to the fact that medical peopole are constantly exposed to every virus and bacteria going around. BUT, it's a very high paying gig, and if I had to do something to earn a livine: Say the State of Illinois goes totaly bankrupt, and I no longer have my SURS pension, I would consider getting my RN certification. I probably would hate it, but I would at least be employable.

Mike

[Li H'Sen Chang]

Well my job at carwash is done for 2011 for winter and I have to quit restaurant to get another factory job or figure out the karate thing. I need monies to try to move back to Laos.

[Murfreesboro]

So you don't consider yourself a permanent US resident, Chang? What brought you here, and what is taking you back to Laos? Perhaps you wish to rejoin family there?

[Li H'Sen Chang]

Yes I want to rejoin families there. My dad moved us here when I was 15 and I been here almost 20 years trying to make enough monies to move back. It is way cheaper to live there.

[Pumpkin_Man]

Well, I wish you the best of luck. I know what it is to be 'home sick,' as I am often that way about Mt. Greenwood. The average cost of a house in that neigoborhood any more is over 200,000 dollars.

Mike

[iHaunt]

Good question for everybody here....

Do any one of you do or have been worked at the haunted house or attraction before? Cemetery? Ghost tour?

[Pumpkin_Man]

Years ago, I volunteered at a 'haunted house,' but before I was supposed to be the "host," the entire thing ended up being cancelled because of lack of participation. The New Lenox Fire Dept was going to sponsor a 'spook house' for Juvanile Diabetes, but there weren't enough volunteers to make it work, so it died a wimpering death.

Too bad. I was sort of looking forward to it.

Mike

[Li H'Sen Chang]

I think I might want to drive big truck long distance to get money. I need CDL license and then need to buy truck because I read that owner make more money than driving for other persons.

Have any of you drove a truck long distance to get money?

[Pumpkin_Man]

Long haul trucking is no longer what it's cracked up to be. It use to be a great paying job with lots of benifits, but that's no longer the case. Back in the 70s, I seriously considered getting a CDL, because the average over the road trucker was bringing in over 40 grand a year. And that was 1970s dollars. Now a days, the average a truck driver makes is around 24 grand a year, which is nothing to write home about. If you own your own rig, the payments alone will be huge, and that's for a used truck, not a new one. A brand new one will routinely be price at over 100 thousand dollars, for just the tractor portion. Most truckers just own a tractor and they pick up and deliver trailors.

That's not to say that you can't make a living. BUT, it's a very tough way to earn a living, and the physical work you have to do can be very demanding. Most truckers also have to load and unload their own trailors. A lot of truckers make deliveries to various places, like the Cysco food service people who will come to my work place and drop off what our food service department ordered from them, then they will go on th another food place and drop off another order, and so on and so fourth.

The very highest paid, upper escenon truckers are the guys who have beer and'or grocery routes. The only problem is that you really have to know some body to get a route like that, and you routinely drive in urban traffic. Urban sprawl and total grid lock is bad enough when driving a regular passenger vehicle. It's a total nightmare when you have to manipulate a big rig in multiple lanes of slow moving traffic.

And just do you don't think I 'm talking through my hat, one of my neighbors and friends is a long distance trucker. He owns his own rig now, but he started out working for a small trucking company as a driver's partner.

Mike

[Undertaker]

I work at the cemetery as the security guard (the nightwatchman), all I do is walk around and look to see if everything is ok. So how about you?

What cemetery do you work Ihaunt? Boy, between you and I, I bet we have some stories! My job, my user name is the clue! We also operate a cemetery!

[Li H'Sen Chang]

Long haul trucking is no longer what it's cracked up to be. It use to be a great paying job with lots of benifits, but that's no longer the case. Back in the 70s, I seriously considered getting a CDL, because the average over the road trucker was bringing in over 40 grand a year. And that was 1970s dollars. Now a days, the average a truck driver makes is around 24 grand a year, which is nothing to write home about. If you own your own rig, the payments alone will be huge, and that's for a used truck, not a new one. A brand new one will routinely be price at over 100 thousand dollars, for just the tractor portion. Most truckers just own a tractor and they pick up and deliver trailors.

That's not to say that you can't make a living. BUT, it's a very tough way to earn a living, and the physical work you have to do can be very demanding. Most truckers also have to load and unload their own trailors. A lot of truckers make deliveries to various places, like the Cysco food service people who will come to my work place and drop off what our food service department ordered from them, then they will go on th another food place and drop off another order, and so on and so fourth.

The very highest paid, upper escenon truckers are the guys who have beer and'or grocery routes. The only problem is that you really have to know some body to get a route like that, and you routinely drive in urban traffic. Urban sprawl and total grid lock is bad enough when driving a regular passenger vehicle. It's a total nightmare when you have to manipulate a big rig in multiple lanes of slow moving traffic.

And just do you don't think I 'm talking through my hat, one of my neighbors and friends is a long distance trucker. He owns his own rig now, but he started out working for a small trucking company as a driver's partner.

Mike

Thank you for informations. There are mines in north Minnesota that pay good monies to truckers where you get big loads to deliver. Those jobs are hard to get hired but if you get one you will be rich for sure.

[iHaunt]

Forest Lawn Cemetery on Granby Street.

I work at the cemetery as the security guard (the nightwatchman), all I do is walk around and look to see if everything is ok. So how about you?

What cemetery do you work Ihaunt? Boy, between you and I, I bet we have some stories! My job, my user name is the clue! We also operate a cemetery!