This is life on $7.50 an hour

[UWasntThere]

She needs to find out what the community colleges cost in her area. Locals often get a huge discount and financial aid will cover most of not all of the rest. The get a job at a company with tuition reimbursement

 

[TheBoyDuddus]

Coli Capitalists just wanna replace the white boot that's on our necks with a black one and call it a day.

temporarily embarrassed millionaires

 

[Bigblackted4]

Slavery

 

[BaggerofTea]

Correct. I was just trying to tell him that there is way more than just Google that pays that much. Hell, Google isn't even the highest paying for interns at all. There are literally thousands of interns every year making that much money.

As @Ethnic Vagina Finder said, most of those companies are software companids/primary internet prefacing firms. Google, was just an example. To intern at one of those firms, you have to be exceptional.

I am glad i was wrong, good shyt and congratulations.

 

[Big Simpin Losing Cheese]

She could make more at a school cafeteria worke but you will have to get a second job cause of breaks & vacations

 

[Mike809]

$45/hr + $1k/month stipend. So ~$52-53 an hour, yes. Software salaries can be pretty insane. I'm not even the highest paid out of my intern friend group (top 20 CS school). Highest paid is ~$12.5k/month.

Which city ?if you dont mind me asking. Im studying CS in NYC at the moment , that type of money only motivates me.

 

[Nobu]

Which city ?if you dont mind me asking. Im studying CS in NYC at the moment , that type of money only motivates me.

I interned in the Bay Area. Nice! See reddit link I posted above for more motivation lol

 

[YvrzTrvly]

Honestly can't imagine that. I made ~7 times that wage at 20 as an intern.

Yea i had a 24 inch dikk but had to roll it back so i could keep my job or else the bytches would leave a pool of p*ssy juice under their desk chair

 

[Freedman]

$45/hr + $1k/month stipend. So ~$52-53 an hour, yes. Software salaries can be pretty insane. I'm not even the highest paid out of my intern friend group (top 20 CS school). Highest paid is ~$12.5k/month.

Another CompSci breh here. In college down south but I hope to move out to California once I graduate. Started programming last August and I want to start looking for internships locally next summer

 

[EndDomination]

I worked in the call centers to. That stupid bytch can get a job at a call center making 11.50

I can imagine she's probably applied, its getting the job that's the difficulty.

 

[EndDomination]

You could never be more wrong. The problem is that how much people are getting paid. The problem is people's lack of financial discipline. Put the minimum wage at $15 if you want, the average apartment is going to be $1,400 a month, in the iPhone is going to cost $1,600 on its release date.

Too many people are clueless on how to properly manage their money. The more they make, the more they're going to choose to spend. There was a time that people used to make $2 an hour and were not as broke overall is we are now, because more people knew the value of everything. Today, everybody only knows the price of everything.

What about the people that actually went to school, and actually has a job that requires skills that are of value in the job market? You think their employers are going to bump them from $18 an hour to 28? How would you feel if you spent money to go to school and learn a trade, only to find out that a McDonald's employee is making 3 - $5 less than you thanks to the stroke of a pen?

That's now how things function, you're putting a simplistic, Econ 101 spin on markets that are far more complex.
And yes, using your same logic, were $15 dollars to become the minimum wage, and product prices to jump because financial skills don't change, there'd be increased market pressure to pay more at jobs across the board, or offer incentives.

Look at the legal world, corporate law firms in the middle (501+) have their payscale dictated by the top, otherwise there'd be a squeeze for talent.
COL and inflation have outstripped minimum wage, at the very least $10 should be the standard.

 

[Wisdomkeyz]

the father would be incarcerated

 

[the cac mamba]

minimum wage needs to be 10 dollars an hour in this fukkin country jesus christ

 

[Critical Distance]

Who told her fast ass to reproduce? :kobe_smug:

 

[Killer Instinct]

If you're in this situation, why the aversion to warehouse work or otherwise?? You make more throwing packages at FedEx and UPS. The hours can sometimes be feast or famine but the idea is to work smarter. You'll likely pull in the same -- if not more -- on 25 hours. UPS is all about seniority & tenure but you can make well over 70k a year as a driver. Guy I went to high school with that I couldn't stand threw packages for $11 at UPS from 2011 until 2015. Passed the ROAD test and started at $18 or so in 2015. Within 6(?) years, you make the max as a driver, which is $34 - $36 an hour. Requires no degree, only the ability to follow directions and use common sense. He didn't even bother finishing school and is making great money for him and his people. A lot of warehouse jobs pay $12 - 14 an hour, part time & full. USPS is also an opportunity for those without degrees to make 37 - 45k not factoring in overtime, and you don't need to be a career carrier for that amount either, especially in major cities. You'll get all the hours you need as a CCA and make $17+, with anything over 8 hours being overtime. There's also the military.

I know some of these alternatives aren't as simple as filling out an app for Wendy's, but Id like to think if one was going to kill themselves by working on their feet, they would at least desire to be better compensated for it. I won't knock baby girl because you have to do what you have to do from day to day, but I can't fathom that she's genuinely explored other alternatives. Rudimentary hurdles (ASVAB, USPS Postal Exam, "earning your stripes,") ect intimidate a lot of people but often, you have to actually die in order to get to heaven. If your hell is $7.50, things can only get better.