i want 40 hours/week minimum but it's a field tech position and it's only when they call me.. they offering $25/day per-diem for being oncall .. i'm not trying to be put in a position of not having worked 5 days in a row.
Y'all ever look at low wage employees and be like damn?
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i want 40 hours/week minimum but it's a field tech position and it's only when they call me.. they offering $25/day per-diem for being oncall .. i'm not trying to be put in a position of not having worked 5 days in a row.
Oh its on-call? Yea, don't move for that. You made the right call. Unless a full-time position opens.
jwonder
Superstar
Seeing people work bum jobs triggered me to get a degree. Damn I couldn't imagine working at a Walmart, Gas Station or Customer Service. Especially in my 40's. They look legit worn out and stressed. Automation about to kill a lot of those jobs too.
Dorian Breh
Veteran
I don't think this about you
But I do feel sometimes that for every person humbled by their experiences at low income service/retail jobs....
There's like five motherfukkers who feel entitled to mistreat minimum wage employees on some "I did the job, I know how it works" bullshyt like they earned the right
I count my blessings each day.
Grew up with no pops then had to move to the U.S with 6 other siblings broke...at age 12.
My 1st job I had,( was un official )but when I was like 7 or so, I used to go the grocery store and bag groceries. I would catch the bus by myself and go. I literally would walk behind a register and start bagging for tips. Made about $20 a day.
I would stay after school as well and clean the chalk board for the teachers for loose change.
From 16 got my 1st official job working as a camp counselor for inner city kids in Rochester. Ive probably worked 30 different jobs in my life from office mover, to circuit city clerk, to DSP to hotel clerk, chef, therapeutic counselor, call centers etc then went unemployed for a bit over a year and got my wakeup call.
I didnt pick myself up until after my grandmother passed in 2012. In the last 90 days ive counted over 30k. I dont own a degree but this GED I got when I was 16(ive been to colleges and universities tho)
People used to talk shyt but now they put respect on my name
Its never to late for most people tho, IMO. Focus and drive determines a lot. Some people just are fine with complacency
Grew up with no pops then had to move to the U.S with 6 other siblings broke...at age 12.
My 1st job I had,( was un official )but when I was like 7 or so, I used to go the grocery store and bag groceries. I would catch the bus by myself and go. I literally would walk behind a register and start bagging for tips. Made about $20 a day.
I would stay after school as well and clean the chalk board for the teachers for loose change.
From 16 got my 1st official job working as a camp counselor for inner city kids in Rochester. Ive probably worked 30 different jobs in my life from office mover, to circuit city clerk, to DSP to hotel clerk, chef, therapeutic counselor, call centers etc then went unemployed for a bit over a year and got my wakeup call.
I didnt pick myself up until after my grandmother passed in 2012. In the last 90 days ive counted over 30k. I dont own a degree but this GED I got when I was 16(ive been to colleges and universities tho)
People used to talk shyt but now they put respect on my name
Its never to late for most people tho, IMO. Focus and drive determines a lot. Some people just are fine with complacency
Ezekiel 25:17
Veteran
Trade school for the win!!!
Went from making $11/hr to $30/hr in 4 years.
That's what's up mane for real. If you can try your best to put other brothers on. My 'white' professor came up to me one time and ask me what was going on and blacks not being in the trades. Like he was bewildered. He actually tried to put me on but I ended finding a job
Btw, save up and go to College that what when you get older you good
During college I always maxed out my work study (about 10-12 hours a week). I supplemented my minimum wage work study gig with data entry at a bank till I got fired from the bank for constantly showing up late.
Summer between my sophomore and junior year I finally was humbled working as a dishwasher at the cheesecake factory. Managers didn’t give a fukk if you’re a near 4.0 college student. They treated me like shyt as if I had no career aspirations and had me working alongside felons who begged me to give them rides or pick them up. I only lasted a month but it was much needed life experience to motivate me to never get caught slacking.
Summer between my sophomore and junior year I finally was humbled working as a dishwasher at the cheesecake factory. Managers didn’t give a fukk if you’re a near 4.0 college student. They treated me like shyt as if I had no career aspirations and had me working alongside felons who begged me to give them rides or pick them up. I only lasted a month but it was much needed life experience to motivate me to never get caught slacking.
RennisDeynolds
I am untethered and my rage knows no bounds!
It really fukking sucks when everybody you were on the come up with blows by you and you're stuck in place watching everyone else's lives move on. I'm doing a lot better now but still not where I want to be.
When you're younger you tend to only think highly of people with careers not regular people with dayjobs. The older you get the more reality sets in: Why fault anyone for doing honest work? Some people are content with their position others just doing the best they can.
Coming from that situation I do not give anybody a hard time at their job, so many people are just trying to make it through to the next day. I always try to acknowledge people and not treat them like they don't exist
When you're younger you tend to only think highly of people with careers not regular people with dayjobs. The older you get the more reality sets in: Why fault anyone for doing honest work? Some people are content with their position others just doing the best they can.
Coming from that situation I do not give anybody a hard time at their job, so many people are just trying to make it through to the next day. I always try to acknowledge people and not treat them like they don't exist
Big Simpin Losing Cheese
Bought my girl a Chanel bag, and she left me still
Without Low wage workers this country would collapse
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Mirin4rmfar
Superstar
Yep!! No matter how much education you have, you are still an expense on someone's spreadsheet somewhere, if they decide that you arent worth it anymore, you will be on your ass.
I seen how brutal corporate America can be. At my previous job, I'd be on calls where upper management is deciding to cut 16 percent of an organisation, and seeing the stresses in people's face. Many working on things that were not easily transferrable. It was some sad ish. Co workers you are cordial gone.
Never get too comfortable at a job.
Working about a 30 hour work week.
Pacni99a12
All Star
My 2 sisters ended up going to school for 2 different bullshyt degrees. One did Arts and the other foreign studies or something like that. One graduated and had a hard time finding anything decent. shyt pissed me off. Im looking at my dad and step mom thinking wtf are yall doing?
BlackDiBiase
Superstar
probably looking at OP like damn he did a dissertation in casual wears in the middle of the working week, no he doesnt have a job.
dollar tree isnt that one dollar or less
items that last less than one week
im sure they were envious, coli coli.
dollar tree isnt that one dollar or less
items that last less than one week
im sure they were envious, coli coli.
Contrefaire
Superstar
No, because I know people gotta make a living somehow and I also used to work those kinds of jobs.
I was in high school when the economy collapsed and started college at the height of the recession. At 17/18 I was working retail alongside fully grown adults who had advanced degrees and shyt but were working hourly part time gigs just to make ends meet. Met a lot of good people at those jobs and quickly learned that not everyone in that predicament is there because they're lazy, lack ambition or whatever else people like to tell themselves.
Instead of pity or "empathy" and whatever else you should feel RAGE. Jeff Bezos' baldheaded, do-nothing ass is walking this earth paying ZERO taxes and in fact getting major cities to pay HIM and his company just to be considered for futuresweatshops headquarters and plants, meanwhile people with bachelors' degrees' are damn near BEGGING in the streets.
I was in high school when the economy collapsed and started college at the height of the recession. At 17/18 I was working retail alongside fully grown adults who had advanced degrees and shyt but were working hourly part time gigs just to make ends meet. Met a lot of good people at those jobs and quickly learned that not everyone in that predicament is there because they're lazy, lack ambition or whatever else people like to tell themselves.
Instead of pity or "empathy" and whatever else you should feel RAGE. Jeff Bezos' baldheaded, do-nothing ass is walking this earth paying ZERO taxes and in fact getting major cities to pay HIM and his company just to be considered for future
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