With those requirements you could start your own business cleaning/maintaining tanks and make more then that.
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I think it's funny how you guys react after seeing a well paid offer in this industry. Most places start you at a little over half of that with the same requirements. Everyone talks about how great it would be to do it for a living, and then sees what the 'living' is really like.
There are no requirements set like that at all. In fact at many of the places I've delt with, it's the unpaid interns and bottom level part timers that do the diving/scrubbing of the big tanks.
There are no requirements set like that at all. In fact at many of the places I've delt with, it's the unpaid interns and bottom level part timers that do the diving/scrubbing of the big tanks.
Your cost of living is probably way less than ours over here though. Not a single place here even a burger place would start you at a little over $7 an hour and require scuba cert or a degree. $7 is under our minimum wage over here. You're right in the fact that a lot of entry level job start way lower; but to REQUIRE a degree vs. prefer a degree are different. But they did say or equal experience which could be working at a fish store or aquarium for a few years. I do know a guy who gets paid around the same though to clean the Six Flags Discovery Kingdom tanks, but all he needed was a scuba cert. And of course everyone here would love to work in their hobby for a living lol, but you're better off working at a non diving maintenance place sometimes. Or even working in fish and games.
Employment competition in the industry does not make it right for an employer to take the absolute urine.
I work in the industry and I will tell you right now, if an employer wanted me to have gained a degree & meet all those requirements, they better be prepared to pay for all those qualities.
Job satisfaction IS more important to me than money, but I am a fantastic, competent and enthusiastic employee & I'm not willing to do any job where employee's are so undervalued - high competition or not. Yes, in these days you generally need degree's to do these jobs, but it seems the requirements have gone up whilst the pay hasn't. That is a long list of requirements - and IMO the pay doesn't reflect those requirements. I genuinely laughed when I read this.
I work in the industry and I will tell you right now, if an employer wanted me to have gained a degree & meet all those requirements, they better be prepared to pay for all those qualities.
Job satisfaction IS more important to me than money, but I am a fantastic, competent and enthusiastic employee & I'm not willing to do any job where employee's are so undervalued - high competition or not. Yes, in these days you generally need degree's to do these jobs, but it seems the requirements have gone up whilst the pay hasn't. That is a long list of requirements - and IMO the pay doesn't reflect those requirements. I genuinely laughed when I read this.
Miami is VERY high cost of living. When I posted a job requiring the same thing for $8/hr, I got HUNDREDS of applications from people dying to get in. It is not an easy industry to get into, and competition is very high. If you want the job, you're also willing to make the changes to life the lifestyle.
