Exactly! Its not as easy now. Not realistic either. Its a full on startup initiative without a possibility of boot strapping for a dollar amount the average human can save.
If your business savvy and have years of legal experience I do know people that have raised private unaccredited investors and setup shop here in CA though.
I think if someone’s an actually good, mentally stable employee they can within a few years find a reasonable income. You can get yourself a 50-60k job making wax.
@Darrenjaydirect great list! Thank you for keeping it going
I have 3 years of lab tech experience under my belt. I started out as a lead C02/Alcohol extractor and winterization eventually worked my way up into the distillation lab doing pesticide remediation through chromatography and a lot of other stuff. Company I worked for stopped doing concentrates and just focused on cultivation so I am looking for other opportunities. I been doing cultivation for the past year and am pretty good at it but my knowledge of expertise is in concentrates. Will be checking out your list to see what I can find. I’m in southern California.
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What area of So Cal area you in? I’ll keep an eye out for you.
I’m in adelanto San Bernardino county
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Hawaii!!!
Wanna guess what a gallon of milk costs over there?
Acreage holdings Syaracuse New York is looking for a bachelors degree. I couldn’t even submit my application on indeed without it. I’ve reached top pay in my area for a diesel/heavy equipment mechanic with a GED. $90k.
Really sad to see so many companies requiring college degrees in a field that colleges simply don’t know enough to teach. I’ve been skimming this thread and it doesn’t look like I would qualify for very many jobs without a degree. Good thing I own my own business and run my own lab because I would be fucked if I had to rely on a degree that wouldn’t even prepare me for this industry. Thank fuck for that C+ I made in my last chem class in highschool!
then be a hawaiian dairy farmer. my uncle moved there and was an executive for mauna loa selling macadamia nuts. Better than when he was in columbus ohio marketing jays chips.
I’m in charge of hiring for my team. I can tell you first-hand, I can generally rely on candidates with (relevant) college degrees being able to:
That’s not to say that I don’t find these qualities in non college graduates. But I tend to find more folks that are much more individualistic, take longer to integrate with an existing team, and generally are more difficult to on-board.
That being said, I’ve hired plenty of non college graduates (thank you trades!) and they’re great at what they do but so many of them want to just be left on an island to do their job and have little interest in transitioning to a management or leadership role. This is despite me explaining that being accountable for a group of people instead of only being accountable for themselves is waaaay more valuable to the company and I can more easily justify the pay raises they ask for 
I’m definitely interested in a job on an island, someone else can make a trip ice a week with food, dry ice, solvent, and clean jars.
I would take a black market job, a white market job, someone in the middle of the country that has the money to pay someone to come teach them how to safely and efficiently run their shit!
I’m seriously considering ceasing to teach anything to college graduates. I’ve worked for lots of them and they all have two things in common. They won’t pay what my experience and skills are worth and they pay too much for knowledge that is mostly not useful.
Bro, I don’t even put my degree on my resume! If that’s what they’re looking for I don’t want anything to do with them!
While I agree that the “soft skills” were beat into our heads in school and they were required to progress through (I dropped out as a senior in comp sci), I firmly believe the drive lies in the individual. I think college can filter out some that don’t, but I’ve met some LAZY ass college grads. I really feel it’s a case by case, but I only have 1 year experience as an employer of 3 so take my experience as a manager with a grain of salt.
70k for director at manoa just isnt worth it. I’m in Hawaii and was expecting that to be listed a lot higher. Definitely fighting for second or third place in dispos here and an uphill battle they’ll need to raise that listing if they want to gain market share.