Comments by "Robert Morgan" (@RobertMorgan) on "The Rubin Report"
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Very true. As a grad with an actual 'useful' degree, MIS, it was disheartening to discover that such a field views a BS degree as basically a min-wage ticket. You need a Masters to really break in. Unable to make that work, I got a job which is now my career in water treatment. I wish I had done 2 things differently: started in this industry earlier, and studied biology, chemistry, and earth science in college instead.
Water treatment is another field, like construction, that depending on locale you can start at upwards of 40k, and make double that after you put in the 4 years or so of needed experience to get licensure. Next April I'll have been working 3.5 years operating a water plant, and I'll be eligible to test for my Class A treatment license. With that cred, I'll be nationally licensed to operate any water treatment plant in the United States, regardless of size or complexity. There is no level higher. But it does have strict time-in-job prerequisites no matter what you know or what degree you have.
Water treatment, even more so than construction, is a great industry because it has permanent, rapid, sustained growth. Every human might not need a new house, but every human on earth is literally addicted to clean water. It's not a choice or a luxury. Every time a new person is born, every day, my demand goes up, and barring some catastrophe that reduced the world population, it will never go down. The work will always be there. There will always be innovation needed. And surprisingly, we're still always learning new things about water. There is an entire branch of science that could, and does, fill entire libraries with what we know and don't know about how and why water acts the way it does.
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