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Adept-Bobcat-5783 t1_iuuiopa wrote

Around a 100k paid holidays, vacations, benefits and pension for doing something you love and are proud of. Sounds like the good life. If they throw in college tuition paid after 5 that would be enticing

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she_speaks_valyrian t1_iuurpd3 wrote

Totally depends where your living... These jobs aren't in the cheapest of areas.

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kyoto_magic t1_iuuyszv wrote

Sure they are. Boat loads of aerospace jobs in Huntsville, Alabama for instance. With some of the biggest companies

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she_speaks_valyrian t1_iuuzj7r wrote

The biggest companies are everywhere. Huntsville is the outlier, maybe parts of Texas are on the cheaper end, I'm not familiar. But your looking at Southern CA, Bay Area/Ca, Denver area, The Cape Florida, Houston. Maybe a little in New Mexico, Phoenix, but that's minor.

I sell equipment that supports this industry covering a territory from Texas to the west. My clients aren't in the cheapest of areas. 100K isn't going that far...

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kyoto_magic t1_iuvydgj wrote

100k goes far almost everywhere. Unless you are living in downtown SF or NYC

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iPinch89 t1_iuxcpm8 wrote

Pension? Where?

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Adept-Bobcat-5783 t1_iuxob9u wrote

Mostly all government employees have pensions.

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iPinch89 t1_iuxoip6 wrote

This is about aerospace professionals, not government. None of the private aerospace companies have pensions.

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Adept-Bobcat-5783 t1_iuxwgqi wrote

Lol I was on a nasa sub before this and had tunnel vision. Still aerospace though. They have a pension.

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iPinch89 t1_iuxxxq6 wrote

Understood, but you're talking a very, very small subset of the industry. Also, government salary is even lower than private.

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Adept-Bobcat-5783 t1_iuy2vud wrote

Agree but job security holds some value also and NASA pay is slightly lower than private. Some fields are actually decently paid . My buddy works there but in cyber security and makes about $150k plus the perks and it’s extremely laid back. I would assume that there are others making much more. I’ve worked at nasa but through a contractor and not directly. Strict but laid back. I met some specialist, nuclear physicist for example that I can’t imagine being underpaid but who knows nasa offers a lot of security. So it could possibly be the reason why. Small examples again but this is from my own personal experience. I would love to work there and my whole comment above was based on me envisioning working there lol.

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iPinch89 t1_iuy34xk wrote

I think it'd be a cool job. I work in industry and my job has a ton of security. I work on an airframe that won't be retired for at least another 10 years.

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