I could totally be an ice cream taster.
Career change!
Everything looks good from here... Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... 'This Land.' I think we should call it 'your grave!' Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! Ha ha HA! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die! Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!
Wash ,'Serenity'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Steph L. - Jul 17, 2013 9:06:57 am PDT #29440 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Amy - Jul 17, 2013 9:08:31 am PDT #29441 of 30001
Because books.
Embalmer's pay isn't great, but I bet it's a really low-stress job if you're cut out for it. When I was in upstate NY, I ran into a lot of people who were going to a college up there for funeral directors.
Jessica - Jul 17, 2013 9:14:02 am PDT #29442 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
If "less than 50,000" is the threshhold for surprisingly low-paying, then most of the surprisingly high-paying list...isn't.
§ ita § - Jul 17, 2013 9:15:34 am PDT #29443 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I could totally be an ice cream taster
I don't think you have the qualifying degree, which is another reason the list is weird. If I'm a scientist with a BSc, is 50k *surprisingly* *high*? Genetic counsellor is going to require a bachelor's as well. Also, I remain unstunned at the idea of a hot dog vendor making $30K, or a body part model making $20 for an afternoon, at least unless they mean low. I hope you get expenses, at least.
If $45k is objectively low in the second article, I don't see how some of the salaries in the first are high, even surprisingly so.
And the embalmer thing makes zero sense.
Hil R. - Jul 17, 2013 9:18:05 am PDT #29444 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Burrell - Jul 17, 2013 9:18:58 am PDT #29445 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Jesse, my stretch teacher has us do isolation exercises with the torso, hips, etc. I find it surprisingly difficult.
Calli - Jul 17, 2013 9:21:03 am PDT #29446 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I had trouble isolating body parts for movement when I tried belly dance, but I'm not great at isolating them in most other situations so I don't think belly dance was particularly unique there.
Burrell - Jul 17, 2013 9:21:21 am PDT #29447 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I've got a doctorate and I'm making less than that.
Grrr, that's just wrong. You are NTT, aren't you?
Hil R. - Jul 17, 2013 9:21:54 am PDT #29448 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Grrr, that's just wrong. You are NTT, aren't you?
Non tenure track? Yeah.
(The bit that Burrell quoted was me, which I deleted, then decided deleting it was stupid. I'm very indecisive today.)
Jesse - Jul 17, 2013 9:23:37 am PDT #29449 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I had trouble isolating body parts for movement when I tried belly dance, but I'm not great at isolating them in most other situations so I don't think belly dance was particularly unique there.
I don't think I've ever isolated a body part in my life! At least, not on my trunk. I mean, I can move just one arm with no problem.