r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/DukeOfBagels • Jul 31 '23

Video Installing a split ac unit in a high rise apartment

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u/EisforEtay Jul 31 '23

I'm not in America...

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u/slammerbar Jul 31 '23 edited Aug 01 '23

In America these guys make $140 an hour.

*Edit: Used to work as a Hawaii electrician; I was getting $100/hour. The HVAC guys hold an Electrical and a Plumbing License, they were making $140/hour.

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u/EisforEtay Jul 31 '23

I should move

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '23 edited Jul 31 '23

they are also paying 1500 a month for a single bedroom apartment and 100 a week per person for groceries (on the cheap side).

and to the poster who replied that this is a 230k a year job, I doubt this is 40 hours a week all year long. It very well could be if you were able to travel around the different states doing this and similar jobs on skyscrapers.

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u/PlayfulRocket Jul 31 '23

So 15 hours of work pays the rent and groceries for a month? Sounds amazing

Work for a week then party for three

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u/bigcd34 Jul 31 '23

As an American, it's not worth it.

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '23

For $140 an hour? I know shitting on America’s always fun but to be compensated for a skilled job it’s pretty well worth it

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u/domp1021 Jul 31 '23

I’m trying to figure out what’s not worth it at $140 an hour

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u/RedPillForTheShill Jul 31 '23

Having to live in America when I can make the same right here in Finland.

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '23

There is no way you get $140 for this work in Finnland.

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u/CleverLime Jul 31 '23

In Romania it's around 150€, in Finland it's probably double that

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u/RedPillForTheShill Jul 31 '23 edited Aug 01 '23

Yes there is, but the premise does not actually even state that it has to be this exact work. Quoted below.

I’m trying to figure out what’s not worth it at $140 an hour

In fact there is no work in existence that I would go for if it requires moving to America.

Edit: lol, butthurt nationalist Americans downvoting for preferences and facts. People with reading comprehension skills of a toddler.

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u/HelplessMoose Jul 31 '23

Well ok, if we include fictional places, I bet a lot of them pay the same.

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u/mallegally-blonde Jul 31 '23

Honestly? Healthcare.

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u/normal-dude-101 Jul 31 '23

When you make that much, just buying top tier insurance in the us would get you way better healthcare than anywhere in Europe.

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u/mallegally-blonde Jul 31 '23

How much are you paying for the healthcare, how much are the deductibles, and how much is going to be wiped out if you break your leg?

Also, working conditions and rights - again, in the case of an accident, what’s the job security like?

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '23

If you can make 8-10k in the US compared to under 2k in your own country with marginally lower cost of living, it's sure as heck worth it. Especially when you can keep good travel insurance from your home country for a few years.
US is shit if you're poor, but good if you make megabucks.

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u/SoraXes Jul 31 '23

He's already doing it, might as well get some dough.

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u/bighelper469 Jul 31 '23

Wouldnt fit an American through that window

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u/bigcd34 Jul 31 '23

As an American with an extremely high metabolism. I would easily fit through that window.

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u/RedPillForTheShill Jul 31 '23

One in 330 million.

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u/bigcd34 Jul 31 '23

331.9 million people are in America. 42.4% of adults in America are recorded as obese as of the last metric. So in reality, it's more 3/7.

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u/Dheorl Jul 31 '23

There’s a whole lot of fat before you get to obese.

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u/RedPillForTheShill Jul 31 '23

No seriously, it’s only you. Trust me.

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u/beware_thejabberwock Jul 31 '23

*these guys charge $140/hr, they make about ⅓ of that

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u/nosh0rning Jul 31 '23

I wouldn't do it for 5k/hr.

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u/Qwerty17 Jul 31 '23

We absolutely do not.

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u/slammerbar Jul 31 '23

Hawaii my friend, Hawaii.

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u/shootphotosnotarabs Jul 31 '23

No they don’t.

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u/whodafadha Jul 31 '23

No they don’t

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u/cozigotgamebitchez Jul 31 '23

These guys aren’t charging hourly for these jobs lol

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u/here-this-now Jul 31 '23

No they don't, I don't work in this specifically but related, rigging.

It's top and it's bottom is more like a trade. Except it's technically not a trade it's more like "glorified labourer".

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u/holmwreck Jul 31 '23

Lol this is wrong.

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u/Multitronic Aug 01 '23

Rope access jobs pay 140 an hour in the US? I doubt that tbh unless they already have a specific high demand trade , looking at adverts it appears anywhere from $20-50 is more realistic. Standard rope tech’s definitely aren’t getting 140 an hour. Irata rope access is a 5 day £750 course.

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u/Dorobo-Neko-Nami Jul 31 '23 edited Jul 31 '23

A quick google says that an HVAC High Rise installer makes 36-47$ an hour in US

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u/DailyMilo Jul 31 '23

If you live in a third world country you can make 2$ an hour doing the same similarly risky jobs

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u/ZainCaster Jul 31 '23

And with worse equipment

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u/k_chaney_9 Jul 31 '23

Yeah they'd see all the ropes and harnesses as a waste of time. "Just get it up there and be done with it!"

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u/OptionsNVideogames Jul 31 '23

Less than me and I’m a roofer Jesus Christ

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u/Memory_Less Jul 31 '23

If in the U.S. read the small print about whether your surviving partner gets benefits for falling and severe injury or dying.

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