America's Highest Paying Blue-Collar Jobs

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Poll Results

Option	Votes
Locomotive Engineers	7
Railroad Conductors and Yardmasters	3
First-Line Supervisors/Managers of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers	2
Elevator Installers and Repairers	1
Farm, Ranch and Other Agricultural Managers	1
Ship Engineers	1
Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Powerhouse, Substation and Relay	1
Transportation Inspectors	1
Power Plant Operators	0
Gas Plant Operators	0

― omar little, Monday, 7 July 2008 20:33 (seventeen years ago)

ship engineers easy

― Surmounter, Monday, 7 July 2008 20:34 (seventeen years ago)

Locomotive Engineers (call me old-fashioned)

― Curt1s Stephens, Monday, 7 July 2008 20:38 (seventeen years ago)

I hope they still wear striped overalls and tall hats.

― Oilyrags, Monday, 7 July 2008 22:43 (seventeen years ago)

Farm manager, both old school rustic manliness and a high suicide rate.

― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Monday, 7 July 2008 22:45 (seventeen years ago)

Railroad Conductors and Yardmasters

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 03:39 (seventeen years ago)

Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Powerhouse, Substation and Relay

I don't know how broad the other categories are, necessarily, but this seems weird to me since I'm pretty sure there are operators on the high end of this putting away six figures while the low end has nonunion folks taking home probably $30K or less.

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 03:41 (seventeen years ago)

Most of these probably require skilled labour

― slecked, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 03:53 (seventeen years ago)

You can call these jobs blue collar, but many of them you still have to have a college degree, secondary education or at least got some similar training or experience through military service to get your foot in the door.

― earlnash, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 03:57 (seventeen years ago)

CHOO-CHOO Motherfuckers!

― Dr. Superman, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 04:12 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvYL4ZsK_Uo

choo choo, motherfuckers

― deeznuts, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 04:18 (seventeen years ago)

(call me old-fashioned, but i also voted locomotive engineers)

(i mean come on who hasn't wanted to be a locomotive engineer at at least one point in their life)

― deeznuts, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 04:20 (seventeen years ago)

I guess i could fit into the electronics section, in the low-voltage area. I'm paid better now than my last two tech jobs, which admittedly were shit wages.

Job satisfaction is far higher, tho. We even have an office cat.

― kingfish, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 06:19 (seventeen years ago)

having found out the answer, I can well believe it. There's some some seriously complex analogue computers in those things.

― Ed, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 08:43 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― ILX System, Thursday, 10 July 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

I voted for the construction supervision one because it seems like you'd get to have a gut and stand around pointing, putting your hands on your hips, folding your arms and generally looking self-assured and important a lot without seeming like a jerk.

Also I have a friend who does construction management and he's a good guy.

― Hurting 2, Friday, 11 July 2008 00:26 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― ILX System, Friday, 11 July 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

Having spent yesterday digging thru a backlog of 2+ months worth of trade mags, I find that i'm now in an industry where the main professional org has its own PAC.

― kingfish, Friday, 11 July 2008 23:02 (seventeen years ago)

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