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  • 22-09-2013 08:40AM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭


    I'd love to give long haul trucking a try in the USA. I like driving and listening to the radio but I suppose sleeping in the god dam thing would get old quick. :pac:. Driver's salaries vary, most earn by the mile, starting rate is 25c for company drivers. It ranges upwards from that, Owner Operators can earn 6 figures a year.

    A fisherman is another manly profession which I'm probably not cut out for. Wearing the overalls and hauling gear for hours on end etc.

    Like trucking salaries vary drastically, A crab fisherman in Alaska can earn 50k for one 5 week season but a deckhand working onboard a trawler in Ireland would be lucky to make half that in a year.

    What profession would you like to experience without having to commit to it?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 847 ✭✭✭Bog Standard User


    I'd love to give long haul trucking a try in the USA. I liking driving and listening to the radio but I suppose sleeping in the god dam thing would get old quick. :pac:. Driver's salaries vary, most earn by the mile, starting rate is 25c for company drivers. It ranges upwards from that, Owner Operators can earn 6 figures a year.

    A fisherman is another manly profession which I'm probably not cut out for. Wearing the overalls and hauling gear for hours on end etc.

    Like trucking salaries vary drastically, A crab fisherman in Alaska can earn 50k for one 5 week season but a deckhand working onboard a trawler in Ireland would be lucky to make half that in a year.

    What profession would you like to experience without having to commit to it?

    porn star anyone????


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 328 ✭✭TommiesTank


    Astronaut

    F1 Driver


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,039 ✭✭✭force eleven


    Working on one of those Alaskan boats, fishing for King Crab in the Bering Sea would be great.Although, I hate heights, get seasick and have a healthy disregard for personal safety, I'd say I'd be fine.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,335 ✭✭✭wendell borton




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,785 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles-old


    Always wanted to work in a bar :D Someone hire me for the day! Ill work for free!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,301 ✭✭✭Daveysil15


    Window cleaner in the red light district.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 847 ✭✭✭Bog Standard User


    Daveysil15 wrote: »
    Window cleaner in the red light district.

    that would be horrible.... its like putting a junkie in charge of a pharmacy :eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 295 ✭✭seanie_c


    What profession would you like to experience without having to commit to it?

    Astronaut or fighter pilot was always something I dreamt of.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,301 ✭✭✭Daveysil15


    that would be horrible.... its like putting a junkie in charge of a pharmacy :eek:

    Nah that logic would only be accurate if I was sex addict, which thankfully I'm not... ohh wait... :eek: :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,443 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    Dream job - F1 driver, a professional athlete

    Possible - I'd love to work for the Criminal Assets Bureau. There's a rewarding job!

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 328 ✭✭TommiesTank


    Software Developer or System Architect


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    Airline pilot

    Bathysphere operator


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,939 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Not sure I'd want to actually do them.... but I'd love to have a fly-on-the-wall view of airline pilots in action, and also a radio show being broadcast - something like Da Lahv Line :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85 ✭✭whadafook


    Proctolgist or Cowboy


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,082 ✭✭✭irelandspurs


    Mcdonalds


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Working on one of those Alaskan boats, fishing for King Crab in the Bering Sea would be great.Although, I hate heights, get seasick and have a healthy disregard for personal safety, I'd say I'd be fine.

    Have you been watching DC like myself? :pac:

    If you can put up with the grind sleep deprivation etc you need only work 6 months in a year. The crab boats do two seasons King Crab (late October-eary December) and Opillio (early January early March), they tender salmon during July and August. A normal guy on the deck of a big boat could earn 200k for the 6 months. Apparently this used to be bigger in the early 90s with crew members earning up to 25k a week in crab season. Hence the massive influx of lads to Alaska. The fisheries have slowed down recently and the quota system has put an end to the megabucks but they still earn well above average for blue collar labour.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,180 ✭✭✭Sunglasses Ron


    porn star anyone????


    I remember watching a Louis Theroux behind the scenes look at a filming. The stuff is so choreographed and stop start acted that the actor and actress seemed pretty bored

    Having said that apart from Lisa Ann most American porn is unwatchable rubbish anyway.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 847 ✭✭✭Bog Standard User


    Mcdonalds

    it would be much better working for supermacs... if your going to get ridiculed for wearing a dorky uniform you may as well support an irish based chipper


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 93 ✭✭redtapestyl


    Software Developer or System Architect

    Woah!! Let's not go mad now..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,793 ✭✭✭tritium


    Masked crime fighter

    Or more sensibly (?) Fighter pilot


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  • Site Banned Posts: 9 Mr Jake


    Gynaecologist


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 328 ✭✭TommiesTank


    Binman - the one driving the truck though, obviously.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,764 ✭✭✭mickstupp


    Making stained glass windows. Or pottery.

    I have no idea why.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,301 ✭✭✭Daveysil15


    I remember watching a Louis Theroux behind the scenes look at a filming. The stuff is so choreographed and stop start acted that the actor and actress seemed pretty bored

    Having said that apart from Lisa Ann most American porn is unwatchable rubbish anyway.

    Ron Jeremy said he used to think of his grandmother and drowning kittens to stop himself from cumming too soon.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 505 ✭✭✭oncex


    A coroner! Awful but just to experience it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,246 ✭✭✭ROCKMAN


    Top Gear presenter ,Them lads seem to have the dream job ,

    Football scout Based in Spain/ Portugal.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 915 ✭✭✭hansfrei


    One of them cowboy builders I used to hear about. Riding into work, riding during work, riding after work. Thats what I want. More riding.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 811 ✭✭✭canadianwoman


    Helicopter pilot. :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,263 ✭✭✭Gongoozler


    Luas driver. Seems so glidey


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    oncex wrote: »
    A coroner! Awful but just to experience it

    In Ireland your local coroner is usually a solicitor or GP. They investigate the death but they're not present at the scene and they don't witness the autopsy, if one is performed. Years ago they did but this practice has changed.


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