Out of Pod Experience

Travel to AUSTRALIA and work at the MINES for 100K$ to 200K$ a year!!!!

Real mining pays well in Australia, in Latinamerica its crap. So if you broke, have no skills and/or just want something diff and can take the punishment go mine the hell out of mother earth for PROFIT!!!

And if you're smart enough to play EVE (and not be cannon fodder for half the universe), then you probably know enough about why mining is paid so well... and so few do it.

If it sounds to good to be true, it probably is!

Now google "health risks of mining" and note that you're probably trading years of your life (and quality of life) for money.

http://occmed.oxfordjournals.org/content/54/5/283.full.pdf

LOL so true ... sad but true :P

Its arguable that working in a mine is more dangerous than being in a war zone. Depends on where and what you're mining though. Mining in China, for instance, is basically a death sentence.

Maybe we should send our inmates on death row to mine in China and save the taxpayers money lol

Oddly enough, if people were this prepared for life, no one would live theirs, and just would end up living whatever they have left just paying the insurance/loans quotas.

Though I might understand somehow your completely alien and paranoical secure view of the world (to my latinamerican eyes, as we have to live here with diff types of paranoia) dealing with consequences and the need for insurance, health benefits and perhaps retiree plans, plus any kind of security packages, like dental, surgery and other illnesses, let me remind you that there's millions of people out there living their lives without ever bothering to get insurance, affording whatever they can with CASH and perhaps a debit card, that have access to the net and enjoy basic commodities. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find a source for a study that showed that future generations care less and less for "classical life packages" , of which big families, kids, insurance and ownership of tracts of land are included, so take it as you will, with a big grain of salt.

In Latinamerica, people that have such broad coverages of insurance are not the norm, as the gross population lives by whatever they can make and get away with it. To my eyes, you sound a bit of a control freakish person, but that's ok, guess such broad coverages give you a sense of being and I can respect that, but honestly, lots of people in the world live their lives pretty well without the need of insurance under governments that could care less about where they send their prisoners or if they get fed at all and where basic civil liberties you take for granted usually have only existed in strange alternate realities.

I have travelled abroad and have had accidents, without insurance too to boot, like everybody out there, blame statistics, and I'm still uninsured. My daily worries usually boil down to get money to eat and pay the rent, I veer away from credits and loans and my only CC has a cap of perhaps 2k$, I have no debts to anyone, not even the local varieties of IRS, I have managed to live pretty good with a wife like that. I own a car , fully paid in cash and rarely use it to work as it is cheaper to go some places with public transportation or just walking here in PTY, only Insurance I pay is my car's , which I pay in full or in quotas depending on my current monetary situation (which is like 400$ a year), and only because by law I'm required to do it, but this being latinamerica, you could probably get away with murder if you know enough people or grease the correct hands.

I can't speak for anyone else but me, but seriously if your answer to a high paying high risk job is calculating the possibilities of health related issues, shortened lifespans, inability to enjoy the money as your life is practically forfeit, lack of any real purpose as it is a death trap waiting to happen and no way you will get another job on return, plus closed doors and opportunities lost due to mining background checks, adding the lack of eligibility for insurance packages, then I must say ... professionally, as I'm a psychologist, that Mining is not for you?

Just sayin' ... Also if you trolling, you totally got me +1 to you for that

My hat off to you sir, well explained and enlightening +1 to you.

damnit! i don't need money and i have skills. how the hell did i end up here?!?