I spent 8 months consulting in a mine in Saskatchewan. Starting pay for miners

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Sep 14, 2024
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ptcougr All-American

(13 years ago) was ~90K. Most were making around $120K. How many BA Liberal Arts majors earn that kind of money?

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ptcougr

Bio page: ptcougr
Joined: Aug 21, 2003
Last login: Sep 19, 2024
Total posts: 5,378 (170 FO)

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“We plan to mock their religion Saturday but it’s not hate speech” ?????

Cougs1 All-American

Sep 14, 8:15am

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RH84025

Sep 14, 8:16am

To be fair, some will work up their way up into supervisor roles.

BYU Tar Heel

Sep 14, 8:25am

Nothing wrong with working a mining job.

IronPotato

Sep 14, 8:29am

They might be having a shortage of engineers. I've been thinking of steering my

paulb

Sep 14, 8:30am

I used to be in oil and am now in mining. It’s a great field now that we are waking up to what China realized

BYU Tar Heel

Sep 14, 9:28am

I’m curious to what China realized?

Bin01015

Sep 14, 11:47am

RE: Nothing wrong with working a mining job.

OldFogey

Sep 14, 9:18am

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Plantagenet

Sep 14, 12:08pm

CB can be sort of snooty sometimes.

Brisco

Sep 14, 11:54am

I worked in mines in Wyoming

Cougrrrs Roll

Sep 14, 2:24pm

I spent 8 months consulting in a mine in Saskatchewan. Starting pay for miners

ptcougr

Sep 14, 5:15pm

The miners I know are awesome people

AZ Coug

Sep 14, 11:47pm

And I thank him for doing that tough, dirty, and dangerous job.

Dark Forest Green

Sep 14, 8:47am

My uncle was a miner and died of stomach cancer from his years of exposure to

pegushin

Sep 14, 8:49am

You just did the same thing he did. Don’t be a hater. I love miners and farmers

Cougar76

Sep 14, 8:52am

It will probably be a trona mine and he will probably make bank

Traveling Coug

Sep 14, 8:55am

This is not the own you think it is.

immacougar

Sep 14, 8:55am

My dad work and died in a coal mine. …

DNPcoug

Sep 14, 9:18am

Probably just an idiot student. Delete the rest!

Zoobieman

Sep 14, 9:51am

This is why people hate byu and their fans. Less to do with religion, more to do

Utefaninenemyland

Sep 14, 10:16am

Major irony alert.

Cougar76

Sep 14, 10:37am

BYU and their fans. . . This is one person's opinion

Zoobieman

Sep 14, 10:40am

You take a thing that is inbounds for EVERY SINGLE COLLEGE RIVALRY and say that is why people hate BYU?

BYU Tar Heel

Sep 14, 10:42am

Yea, okay to mock a person for religious beliefs, but not work!? Dumb logic!

BYU I Bleed Blue

Sep 14, 11:15am

Where did I say it is ok to mock religion?

Utefaninenemyland

Sep 14, 12:16pm

Where did you say it wasn’t

BYU '80

Sep 14, 2:06pm

RE: This is why people hate byu and their fans. Less to do with religion, more

OldFogey

Sep 14, 11:40am

Should we list all the reasons the majority of the B12 hate the Utes

DNPcoug

Sep 14, 1:32pm

Don't love the arrogance, but the superiority isn't perceived. A national championship during a LONG run of superiority

RoaroftheCougartails

Sep 14, 1:45pm

THIS!!!!!

DNPcoug

Sep 14, 2:41pm

Don’t throw rocks in a glass house dude.

BYU '80

Sep 14, 2:06pm

Ah yes. Take one random post and pretend that’s the reason for all the hate

ColonelMustard

Sep 15, 11:23am

One random post. Pick any day of the year there is a CB post about inferiority

Utefaninenemyland

Sep 15, 12:40pm

And your profession is....?

OldFogey

Sep 15, 1:23pm

Retired

Utefaninenemyland

Sep 15, 2:49pm

..you're stalling....retired from....?

OldFogey

Sep 15, 4:30pm

I worked for one of the big 3 brokerage firms. Did you get what you need?

Utefaninenemyland

Sep 15, 6:08pm

Yep. Just wanted to make sure you weren't an employee of the much-maligned

OldFogey

Sep 15, 6:11pm

Probably best to delete your post, we are not really interested in supporting that kind of trash talk amongst our fans

KYU

Sep 15, 12:36am

Nothing wrong with blue collar. More valueable than most business people.

EDthoracotomy

Sep 15, 1:27am

Most of the blue collar I know are actually making more than the white collar

bornbyu93

Sep 15, 3:13am

As long as BYU's play mocks Wyoming players as "athletes" who cares what the

Hoopster

Sep 14, 8:18am

that's just sports in general. BYU fans make fun of USU for being farmers/

cwilke1

Sep 14, 8:20am

I agree it doesn’t bother me much when they mock BYU students for being future Lawyers, Dentists, CEO’s and Accountants

Cougs1

Sep 14, 8:25am

hello we are a religious university owned by a religion. Some even argue that

cwilke1

Sep 14, 8:57am

lol in todays society you can’t go after someone religion, gender or race. If we

kotacoug

Sep 14, 8:25am

Unless it’s LDS or Judaism

pegushin

Sep 14, 8:45am

Judaism off and on. We seem to be suddenly and violently swinging back to “on” right now, but anti-semitism was

mvtoro

Sep 14, 2:39pm

It should have remained that way as all racism and religious bigotry should too

pegushin

Sep 14, 3:48pm

You don’t see any distinction there?

kansascougar

Sep 14, 8:30am

People used to and still do mock race. Is that just sports?

ochobeeguy

Sep 14, 8:40am

maybe we should just outlaw all mocking? is that a good solution?

cwilke1

Sep 14, 9:02am

RE: maybe we should just outlaw all mocking? is that a good solution?

mvtoro

Sep 14, 2:41pm

Maybe we should just allow all mocking…is that a good solution?

ochobeeguy

Sep 14, 3:35pm

I could go for this one. As long as it doesn't cross the line of making a threat

cwilke1

Sep 14, 6:27pm

“Police resources”? 🤣 I think it’s ok for you to say that racism and religious bigotry is stupid and shouldn’t be

mvtoro

Sep 14, 7:56pm

I hope you and all of our fan base can survive the onslaught of religious

cwilke1

Sep 14, 8:14pm

Oh, I’m not there. Just think you could maybe do better than 100% fallacies and sarcasm. Maybe not though. I’ve been

mvtoro

Sep 14, 8:33pm

oh but you might hear something mean yelled on the tv broadcast. If it happens

cwilke1

Sep 14, 9:06pm

Turns out I was wrong

mvtoro

Sep 14, 9:14pm

Pretty bold for a state that is 10% LDS and school that has an LDS Institute.

LeGrandBleu

Sep 14, 8:22am

Is the flag at half staff there because Wyoming football lost to Idaho?

IronPotato

Sep 14, 8:30am

No, it for 9-11 like the rest of the country...

ochobeeguy

Sep 14, 8:41am

Don’t forget at least two major contributing families are members of the Church. When t-shirts were printed with foul

Cougarpride

Sep 14, 2:54pm

Well, we plan to mock their football team by beating the yewt out of them

Carnac

Sep 14, 8:23am

Good thing we're not a historically black college

byujdmba

Sep 14, 8:27am

If they're not shy, why did the student ask to remain anonymous?

BigTex

Sep 14, 8:29am

Or because people will see it as more than football banter and try and ruin

rtNelson

Sep 14, 2:30pm

No matter what, I would rather lose and live where I live, than win and live in

carcoug

Sep 14, 8:36am

One of Lavell's many immortal comments.

DeepCCoug

Sep 14, 8:58am

A Wyoming editorial echoed Lavell "We too, Mr. Edwards, would rather you live

LeGrandBleu

Sep 14, 9:15am

What would Dawn Staley do? Let's do the opposite.

BluebloodOR

Sep 14, 8:37am

I invite them to put “Jew” or “Muslim” in place of Mormon and see how that flies

BYU I Bleed Blue

Sep 14, 9:04am

Well, we do have a Jewish QB and probably at least one muslin on the team

SV72 Sale

Sep 14, 9:44am

Jew and Muslim both have racial connotations. How about Catholic?

beefytee

Sep 14, 9:48am

Mormon also has racial connotations, not to the same degree but still

BaseCoug

Sep 14, 8:14pm

Jews are threatened with extinction every day; anti-semitism has exploded

VinnyBYU

Sep 14, 11:31am

Sad, but indeed true

pegushin

Sep 14, 1:21pm

Get used to it. It’s not gonna get better from here on out.

YOHONOMOTO

Sep 14, 9:07am

Classy. I just saw this on FB...

Penske Material

Sep 14, 9:14am

Someone’s parents….

Lvworkman

Sep 14, 9:15am

They left out the “we’re not shy about throwing trash” part of the quote

NYC and Japan

Sep 14, 9:25am

Haha. It’s okay, he said it’s not hate speech.

Ham

Sep 14, 10:12am

Give 'em a break - they are going to college in Laramie and have suffered enough

VinnyBYU

Sep 14, 11:30am

Thick skins everybody!

DizzyDean

Sep 14, 11:39am

We're thin-skinned but we can sure dish it out!

Plantagenet

Sep 14, 12:09pm

Hate speech is such a stupid term. We’re not Europe. It’s offensive but who

reagan21

Sep 14, 1:09pm

How did they mock the religion?

Dark Forest Green

Sep 14, 11:03pm

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