"Atlanta will eat you up. You sure you still want to move here?"

[nicole89]

There are plenty of ways to make money in Atlanta, if you have a plan. If you can pass a test, you can get an HVAC license and make six figures in Atlanta running an A/C business. People get these degrees in business, communication, and social sciences and find out while job searching they are a dime of a dozen.

 

[AAKing23]

Getting my IT experience under my belt right now in Atlanta and within 5 years I am relocating somewhere else. I’m around 20 dollars an hour here so I know once I have 5-6 years more experience I can command 60-70k in somewhere like Seattle or something, or even somewhere else

 

[HARLEM AL]

Atlanta is a hustle city. You can’t go there and expect shyt to just happen. You have to get out there and get it. Which is why if I had to move to start over I would move from NYC to ATL.

 

[TallMan_J]

It’s really the same anywhere. Don’t move to a new city without a job or a career. Don’t move without savings.

This is also very important, breh. Having a nice sized emergency nest egg will eliminate sooo much unnecessary anxiety. I don’t understand how a person could completely relocate across the country with just $500 and their car. No job lined up, but they’ll have dreams and aspirations. That’s how you end up having to sleep in that very same car that you arrived in.

 

[NeilCartwright]

I will say IMO it’s the hub for entrepreneurs. People from NYC, Philly, DC, Cali etc come here to hustle. There’s an event called Invest Fest at the end of August down here with all the big dawgs.

That’s why I chose to plant roots here but I feel for those trying to get a decent job. I have no constructive input on that front

 

[ALonelyDad]

Moved out here two years ago on a whim. Found a decent job and I had a roommate. I was able to stack while having a roommate and now that I live alone I have a really healthy savings if it all comes crashing down. I've networked with people within and outside of my company and hopefully I'll be making 6 figures in a couple years.

One thing I recommend everyone to do is lie on their resume. Lie, lie, lie!!! These people don't know you. All you have to do is be able to speak to your roles. Once you're hired, they'll train you. Of course don't do no shyt like this for a computer program position or nothing like that.

Didn't we have a poster here who was begging to help her with her work project last week? But I agree, its okay to lie a little.

 

[Jekyll]

Atlanta isn’t really a working man’s city and that’s where people get shyt twisted. There’s a handful of high paying jobs but its not like DC. I’d say it’s probably average or lacking in the normal jobs.

Most people there with money are some form of entrepreneur.

 

[Pure Water]

Didn't we have a poster here who was begging to help her with her work project last week? But I agree, its okay to lie a little.

Yup and she got the job done too. My point tho is, this world ain’t fair, so stop trying to play by the rules.

 

[AVXL]

It’s an interesting conversation…as a native Atlantan I see it kinda the opposite way though. I think for people from Atlanta who don’t have skills or the ability to navigate how the city is changing, they’re missing out on the prosperity, wealth building and access that has plagued black people in Atlanta for generations. I know alotta natives who have to work menial jobs, can’t afford to live in the city and either don’t have a plan for how to change it or are oblivious to what’s happening around them. They either were failed by the public school system, didn’t go to college or never got serious about how to better themselves

And shyt at this point if you don’t have a clue on how to fix it, you’ll be living in Douglasville or Lawrenceville or Marietta or Clayton County with minimal skills and very few opportunities to get out of the class you find yourself in. Income disparity in Atlanta is the worst in the nation and children born into a particular class have less opportunity to get out of that class than anywhere in the US. It’s sad but I can’t feel sorry for people who haven’t chosen to invest in themselves b/c the money is here (tech, music, real estate, healthcare, Fortune 500 corporate money, etc). Folks who move here and are from here just gotta move smarter

 

[Thanos]

Atlanta isn’t really a working man’s city and that’s where people get shyt twisted. There’s a handful of high paying jobs but its not like DC. I’d say it’s probably average or lacking in the normal jobs.

Most people there with money are some form of entrepreneur.

For real, I know people went to GT and GSU don't be here. The pay and opportunity is outside of the perimeter and better yet outside of the state for a lot of stuff.

But the trick is if you do have qualifications, live here but have work based somewhere else.

 

[JLova]

shyt is happening everyhwere.

 

[RennisDeynolds]

I get what they saying and it’s true, i tell people all the time, don’t come to atl and you ain’t got the first job lined up, and no most jobs in atl will not sustain you to live in the city. But it’s a lot of people that come to atl with a degree or (s) and experience, yet can’t find a job, the issue is over saturation of the job market, if a job open up and 300 people apply and 150 of them are qualified to over qualified then how do they get a leg up ?? How do they earn income, they work an entry level to service industry job just to survive. You got so many degreed up people working at stores etc just to make ends meet, until they hopefully can get on

btw the Erica classy climb chick i remember when she first started, she doing big shyt now

I always wonder how people move to new places without a job, don't you have to prove income to rent an apartment?

 

[DropTopDoc]

I always wonder how people move to new places without a job, don't you have to prove income to rent an apartment?

Folks be thinking you show up in atl and the jobs come

 

[Shadow King]

There are 24 hrs in a day… You have 14 hours everyday to yourself lol. I’m not talking down on you, but that mentality keeps nikkas poor. These white boys and Messycans are proudly doing these jobs and providing for their family.

But you don't have 14 hours to yourself though. 1-2 hours commuting, ideally 7-8 hours sleeping. At best 8 hours at worst 4. And if you actually have a family, you don't have time to yourself.

60K in 60 hours in just about any major metro area isn't that impressive.

 

[Wink Beaufield]

I like Atlanta.

Some of my coworkers moved down there to Atlanta and they eating good. The catch is that the jobs are fulltime work from home so its a cheat code for them to move from DC to Atlanta. Now, I do like how "cheap" (when compared to DC) the midtown condos are down there. The legit negative about Atlanta is how you gotta drive everywhere and MARTA is not expanding fast enough to take the pressure off of 85.