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> take fishing jobs young and may not be prepared for much else if the fishing goes away Why not just go back to school and retrain for another career? Offshor
by yardie 9y ago
> take fishing jobs young and may not be prepared for much else if the fishing goes away
Why not just go back to school and retrain for another career? Offshore and deepsea fishing is backbreaking, labour intensive work. I'd hope most of them were smart enough to figure out they aren't going to do this for the rest of their lives. Hell, I was a bartender once and even I figured out that standing on my feet 8-12 hours per day won't be possible after so many years.
- dajohnson89 9y ago>Why not just go back to school and retrain for another career? You make it sound like such a trivial thing. There is usually considerable debt and lost wages taken on for attending school, even for someone fresh out of high school. Throw a family into the mix, and it becomes very, very difficult.
- chii 9y agoWhich is why you do it as early in your life as possible, where you might still be able to count on your parents support.
- yardie 9y agoThere are some jobs that are high paying, short-term only. If you're being realistic you realize that and try to extract as much money from it as humanly possible before the jig is up. Some examples include oil derrick roughnecking, professional sports, modeling (obviously), deep sea fishing.
- draw_down 9y agoThe word "just" is doing so much work in that sentence.