Post Grad Career Planning

[NavalBaygel]

Hey everyone,

I’m interested in understanding what a shoreside career might look like after sailing on your license for five years post-graduation. Specifically, I’m curious about the potential earnings in such a role. Any insights or experiences you can share would be greatly appreciated.

 

[NeverSayNever]

I play golf with a mid-2000s grad. He worked for a shipping company leasing containers. He kept bringing in multi-million dollar contracts to the business that were rejected. His boss said they were too small. He started his own company that could handle the contracts that size and funneled the billion dollar contracts to his former employer. In turn - they moved the smaller contracts down to him. Not sure how he is doing financially but his 16yr old daughter drives a new BMW.

 

[KPEngnr90]

Hey everyone,

I’m interested in understanding what a shoreside career might look like after sailing on your license for five years post-graduation. Specifically, I’m curious about the potential earnings in such a role. Any insights or experiences you can share would be greatly appreciated.

If you wanna retire and be independently wealthy by your late 30s early 40's, sail and invest real estate. I got a late start since I did a stint on active duty in the Navy. But I sailed with MEBA after and did just that so between the MEBA pension and the rental income life is pretty financially comfortable. Even more so when my Naval Reserve pension kicks in. One thing KP definitely does for us is put us on the short side of the 50 yd line. Not many 21-22 y/o's making $120-160k fresh out the gate with 0 student debt including our contemporaries from the other academies. Hint. One of our alumni Robert Kiyosaki laid out the blueprint.

 

[JohnPAKP65]

On the engineering side of things, I found a vast number of grads in the power generation industry. That can include actual power plants or even large vendors to power generation like GE (25+ years for me). Years ago I got a vanity license plate (KP 1965). When I visited power plants it was like a mini-reunion. Sometimes a group of.a 1/2 dozen guys would get together for dinner. You will often find KP grads working in refineries as well.

 

[KPEngnr90]

On the engineering side of things, I found a vast number of grads in the power generation industry. That can include actual power plants or even large vendors to power generation like GE (25+ years for me). Years ago I got a vanity license plate (KP 1965). When I visited power plants it was like a mini-reunion. Sometimes a group of.a 1/2 dozen guys would get together for dinner. You will often find KP grads working in refineries as well.

Yup. One thing I did on my time off from shipping was moonlight as a powerplant engineer. EZ money and I banked all my vacation pay from shipping for other investments.