Why does everyone say to not do commercial diving on here?
I’m 21 and in the military. I make about 55k a year and have an extremely easy job but it’s not what I want to do at all. I’m interested in getting out and going to dive school but all I see is people saying it’s not worth doing and that you make no money and work your ass off.
I did some welding in my job and was on a ship for a year and a half (not sure if that counts for anything in the dive world).
Is commercial diving really that bad? I’m willing and actually would be looking forward to traveling and I understand that I would probably be making less than I do now starting out but people make this job out to be hell.
My school would be covered by my GI bill and I am definitely willing to give this my best shot but I don’t want to make a huge mistake by leaving this job to do this if I will just have to quit in a few years because I don’t make any money and am being worked to death. People also say that out of their class they’re the only ones still diving which also concerns me.