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Message: <blockquote data-quote="deleted user" data-source="post: 399712" data-attributes="member: 1778">My 0.02 is that everyone’s goals and priorities are their own. There’s exceptions to every rule and everyone knows someone who climbed the ladder with little education and lots of sweat. Personally I did the BSC 2 year program, got in a plant as a laborer/trainee and worked shift from there. It’s a good living and good money but you sacrifice a lot. Everyone suffers from the sleep schedule, you miss important days with family and friends, and taking time off is difficult since someone has to cover for you at all times. It can be hot, dirty, and dangerous. I realized that the pinnacle of my career would be more of the same, just pay bumps. Shift work gives you a lot of time off so I finished my bachelors online and took a promotion to management at another plant. More money, shorter days, lots of paid time off. I never thought I had issues with fatigue but I felt 10 years younger leaving shift work. I believe the BSC program is doing a fine job, but the field is risky to plan a career around. With the aging plants, political pressure to shut them down, it’s hard for a new grad to plan their life with a major change possible at any moment. Some plant operators are treated like janitors who are the lowest on the ladder and they lose talent, some plants ops is the top dog. Also, everyone knows the plants are often kind of a “you need to know someone there” type place to be hired. Nepotism exists.Now, those wanting to go electrician or instrumentation, I’d push that all day. Even more so there are plenty of specialized medicine jobs like sonography that only require 2 years and pay over 150k.</blockquote>

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