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Is it literally as easy as this?

>http://www.tccd.edu/cie/workforce-training/career-technical-programs/railroad-dispatcher/index.html
>http://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/train-dispatcher-salary-SRCH_KO0,16.htm

Am I missing something here? Can I literally just pay $800 for a few classes and then make more than the average college grad? Or is there a catch like dental hygienist, which is there is no job market.

>> No.908151

>>908145
Can't you just google what the job market is like?

Sounds like a pretty boring job though.

>> No.908157

Holy shit maybe I should drop out

>> No.908159

>>908145
http://www.bls.gov/ooh/transportation-and-material-moving/railroad-occupations.htm

>> No.908161

>>908145
from what i gather, railroads are one big good old boy's club. seniority and sucking the right dicks is everything.

also, train engineers make even more. you have to start as a conductor and work your way up, though.

>> No.908163

>>908161
>railroads are one big good old boy's club
This. My uncle has been laying tracks for 20+ years. He is a manager or something of the sorts and makes six figures easy. He got his son, my cousin, in there too. They say it is hard ass work but the high pay and benefits more than make up for it. His other son went the gold trading route and he's not doing well with the falling gold prices.

>> No.908184

It is actually that easy. There aren't many trades that have a huge influx of new talent. The reason it's so easy and lucrative is because the market needs tech workers. However you don't get a 40000 dollar piece of paper on your wall unfortunately.

>> No.908189

>>908145
>Or is there a catch like dental hygienist, which is there is no job market.
the catch is America's infrastructure is collapsing from lack of funding. Bridges are collapsing and railroads are in disrepair. You're going to be dispatching trains on tracks that are going to buckle in ten years.

>> No.908190

>>908145
>>908145
This will be automated soon, and you'll be just as desperate and dateless as you are now, but older

>> No.908199

>>908190
This tbh. I'd stay away from jobs that are on the verge of being automated away, like pilots/dispatching/most things transportation.

Like how fast food workers want a huge fuckin raise. If labor rates double, you bet someone is gonna come out with a product that will allow the stores to run with less employees. Around here Sheetz is ahead of the curve by having customers simply order through a touchscreen.

>> No.908201

>>908199
Stores were going to be automated anyway, minimum wage has nothing to do with it.

>> No.908202

>>908199

mcdonalds in australia does this already, full touchscreen ordering at every store

>> No.908207

>>908201
I agree and am a firm believer in the upcoming automation revolution, but a massive min wage increase does nothing but make it come faster.

>>908202
Exactly, its just many tasks can't be done (well) by robots yet.

>> No.908621

>>908189
they have people repair train tracks all the time with a huge fucking machine its mandatory maintenance

>> No.908624

>>908199
I actually think its most trade type jobs that are the safest, decent pay and pretty far away from being automated. I would like to see a robot that can come into someone house and crawl under a sink to fix plumbing or get into crawlspaces in an attic to do electrical work.

>> No.908627

>>908199
>pilots

Pilots are still a safe bet yet. We're several decades away from having self-flying planes and even then, there's no way the consumer is going to accept that shit without reservation. People would shit bricks if you told them there's no dude up front at the controls.

>> No.908748

>>908627
you do realize that the 747s that fly overhead every day are already automated and flying themselves?

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908751

>>908145

There are only about 30 of these jobs in each state and the people who do them are going to do them until they retire, then someone internal will get put in their place.

FYI, spergs: just because you googled something then found that it pays well and has a training program for it doesn't mean that you have found the cheat codes to life.

>> No.908752

>>908748
Yah, and people dont want to know that. The problem is, people still want to have a pilot.

>> No.908800

>>908752
That sort of stigma wears off with time.. Not exactly thing sort of thing that's conducive to job security.

>>908624
Trade type jobs are definitely the safest, by far. Same with "meta" robot jobs like much of the computer/it world and engineering. Here's a list of jobs projected to be the most at risk of automation.

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-2642880/Table-700-jobs-reveals-professions-likely-replaced-robots.html

>> No.908817

>>908624
>>908800
For trades maintenance yes, for installation no.
3D printers are already being used to print with mediums like cement and even titanium dust for piping.
Construction will be literally whittled down to a team of 3-4 men for everything from bungalow homes to high rise apartments.

The future of trades is maintenance

>> No.908877

>>908817
Maybe in 10-25 years, in urban environments.

I'd expect that time to double or triple for a rural area like 80% of the country.

>> No.908893

>>908624
True, but crawling in an attic and fixing something is a far cry from telling trains where to go. Honestly the biggest surprise of this thread is that train dispatching isn't already automated, at least mostly if not fully.

>> No.908913

>>908893
I bet unions aren't allowing it.

>> No.908937

>>908800
people are too scared of flying to just have it go off on its own. sure autopilot has been around since the 50's but you still need to be two steps ahead of the plain, talking to atc, and handling emergencies.

what's killing aviation is you're worse than minimum wage starting off

>> No.908939

>>908189
>Bridges are collapsing and railroads are in disrepair.

In the last 10 years there's literally been like 2 bridges that have actually collapsed.

"muh infrastructure" is a political talking point. Nothing more.