/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1336963
this.
bricklayers earn more than GPs. but a teachers sole function as a matter of the way their guilds are set up is to feed universities. the schools rank and apparent quality goes up if you make more doctors. it goes down if you produce more bricklayers. a bachelors degree is a science field like chemistry or biology is completely useless. a business degree is similarly useless unless you have family contacts to secure you a high paying job before you graduate. I know a lot of MBA types who just work in call centres. but teachers encourage more students to go to university not because it's in their students best interest but because it's in their best interest.

in australia the average age of a bricklayer is 45.

>http://www.baka.com.au/national/blow-to-brickies-best-laid-retirement-plans-20090526-bm42.html
>ONLY earns $300 a day doing light work
>oh fug im so poor
>too poor to retire he says, cant claim the pension
>40 years of laying bricks with young brickies easily earning 200k/year laying 800 bricks a day
>no money left
one wonders why he managed to not save a fucking penny

there are loads of fake stories regarding bricklayers like this. these are the kinds you're shown by career counsellors. by selfish teachers who only want their wages to go up slightly. but just like any well paying job, you actually need to consistently work hard and not blow every cent you earn on a fleet of luxury pleasure craft and other liabilities if you dont want to retire poor.

you can live quite comfortably with those kinds of wages after retiring early by choice. even doing light work, you're still earning as much as a doctor.

yes its physically hard on you to lay bricks. but young doctors work 80 hour weeks during their internships and training period. the rich doctors you see kept working those double work weeks.