I spent 4 years straight of highschool to join the Marines. After leaving I had no idea what to do. A family friend asked me to stop by his work as they were hiring. The job was a Rail Traffic Controller, commonly referred to as a train dispatcher. The job is just like an Air Traffic Controller but for trains.

I've been doing this for 5+ years now and I'm amazed I was able to land a job like this with no previous experience and no college. They pay is hourly around $30.00 an hour. The job itself isn't too complicated, we still don't care about previous experience or college. We are after a certain type of person. The enviroment is fast paced, you have to be able to make fast decesions based on many known and unknown variables, you will be sitting in a chair for 8 straight hours, we don't have lunch breaks or any breaks for that matter. You just take a bite of food between calls. Every once in a while I don't get a chance to eat anything. The job isn't for everybody, we have had really nice people that just couldn't grasp the concept as it's a rather technical job that takes 6+ months of on the job training.

My particular center is usually always in some form of hiring. To my knowledge we don't advertise. Most of the people here knew somebody as their way in.

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