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Industry Demand, Compensation, and Job Variety

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Xbox skills can make you real money, real fast running heavy equipment

What happens here

The discussion shifts to the high demand and attractive compensation within the heavy equipment industry. The speaker highlights a significant shortage of skilled workers, which translates into numerous job opportunities and competitive salaries, often around $60,000 annually, even for new operators. He emphasizes the diverse nature of the work, which can range from demolishing retaining walls and mowing lawns to operating excavators, dump trucks, or driving trucks with trailers. This variety keeps the work engaging and ensures continuous learning, making the industry an appealing career choice.

Goal: To understand the high earning potential, job security, and diverse work experiences within the heavy equipment industry.

Tools and materials

  • Dump truck Volvo — Transporting loose material like sand, gravel, and dirt
  • Excavator Volvo — Various construction and earthmoving tasks, including demolition
  • Lawn mower Toro — Landscaping and property maintenance tasks
  • Pickup truck with trailer Ford — Hauling various equipment and supplies

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pretty quick up right and so one of the other things that I want to talk about as expected paint so these guys are going to get into it and for more online every area is gonna be different now I don't know I'm gonna take you pretty decent yeah but you started me flower English okay normally you want to fix a little higher then you come our two okay so don't expect that [Music] seriously I gave a raise right away because you came in and you were just immediately took to a piece of equipment and I'm like I want to keep this kid around so there's gonna be companies guys that you have the opportunity to get into and if they if you have skills you should be paid for your skills because this industry in general is hurting for people but what's gonna happen in the sander is I'm gonna want to teach him absolutely as much as I can and I'm gonna do the best I can to hold on to him for as long as I possibly can but he's gonna have opportunities going down the road in fact if he it takes his skills that he adds and his drive and ambition that you and you apply it and you go to a technical school and you get some some training and skills you can literally hop into a job ten to sixty thousand bucks a year pretty easy yeah it's bit easy to do that's not hard especially when if you gots the skills like previous experience one of the benefits to this job is you're always do always always learning you're not always at least for us you're gonna be one day demo on a retaining wall another day you may be all on maybe another day you're driving a pickup truck I've had you just drive truck and trailer all day long for me yes and now you got he's so what he's saying is he couldn't back it up but now he can all right so all I want you guys to do is if you're wondering about is this a good profession to get into I honestly feel that it's so short of people so short-handed that they're the sky's the limit I'm not like yeah yeah if you've got the problem-solving skills and the learning skills you can actually make a lot of money knowing how to kind of just tweak little things and so that that is so phenomenal what he just said is the ability okay in force like job for say the ability to understand problems and to solve problems but also what's the next step on a problem vana can you hold the camera for me for a second one of the things guys that I don't want to see you guys do when you get out into a job site is this your hands should never be on your in your pockets the thing that…

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