What’s an unexpectedly well-paid job?

Air traffic controller in the states here. This thread has honestly been kind of depressing and not because we aren’t being mentioned.

I’ve been doing this job for ten years and make less than a lot of plumbers. Not that there’s anything wrong with plumbers, btw.

I made well over six figures for a bit and had to live in Afghanistan for it. I make decent money now with the faa, but fuck.

Let me get in the tower and fuck up, and even with the technology we have today, I could kill hundreds of people. With one little fuck up.

I’ve been doing this for ten years. If i fuck up, people die. And I don’t fuck up, in fucking good at this.

I make less than a lot of plumbers.

Can’t wait for the next government shut down, where we work on IOUs and get fired if we even mention “fuck that”.

Ten years into my dream job and I can’t help but think maybe I should have done something else.

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