Military is one option that still works for a poor guy growing up in poverty. Also, getting a decent construction job that pays well.
The only good reason I can see for risking your life for Israel is the training. Bennies probably aren't worth it given that most of them will be reserved for dindus and the ones you are entitled to are paywalled behind a fortress of anti-white public employees.
In terms of raw earning potential trades are probably better:
Low barrier to entry
Earn while you learn
Lower tax bracket, since your earnings are stretched out over a lifetime instead of concentrated into a few peak years like professionals
Always in demand
If shit hits the fan you can do something useful
Earn while you learn is huge. Beats $120k in college debt
For me it was welding. Skilled welders can go just about anywhere in the USA when the economy is good.
Shipyards seem to hire when they get a huge contract while oil industry hires when fuel prices are high. For oil industry it's simple welding on new tanks or repair. For me, I love repair as it's much less work and more welding. What I don't like about new tanks is that as the ring is stacked up by the time you get to the upper rings it's scary as hell moving the scaffolding up. There's nothing to hang onto or to attach your safety harness to and one wrong move and down you go 40 feet to the steel bottom. Fuck that. Also, at my age my shoulders are fucked up and I can't lift the boards very easy so the younger guys give me shit about it. On repair you don't have that hazard as it's mostly replacing a rusted out steel floor.
Shipyard welding is just weld, weld, weld all day or all night depending on your shift. Simple, easy work so you have lots of time to think about things and let your mind drift because the process becomes sort of automatic after a few years. Also, I enjoy the camaraderie of working with a crew. Some stupid, some smart, some funny and some as much or even better skilled than I am. Mostly in my later years I came to be the expert and got the more technical welding jobs like running a subarc. Management loves a guy who can run a sub arc welding machine.
thats so fucked up...if I saw an older guy struggling I would offer help.
the problem is the zoomers.
they are heartless fucks, and will eventually (hopefully not) be management of these shit hole companies. those fuckers are heartless AND they fuck up everything while being heartless.
"earnings are stretched out."
All I heard was "doesn't make enough money."
If you're a professional then you spend most of your career paying off crippling debt and working shitting jobs in high cost economies. Once you finally get past all that towards the end of your career, you start making bank, but because all your earnings are concentrated into those few years in the 1%, more of it ends up in high tax brackets.
By contrast, tradesmen earn their money at a steady pace over a longer time, so they always keep their earnings in lower tax brackets.
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