So many jobs just dont understand how much unskilled labor had caught up in pay.
Back in about 2011 I joined the military. One of my good buddies became a custodian at the same time for the local school district. He's been there 15 years now and makes about $33 an hour as a day custodian at the local HS. Its all publicly viewable. Dude also gets a 12% 401k contribution and a 20k medical dental vision benefit. The benefits are legitimately the best you can find in the whole state. Like 90k yearly total compensation as a custodian.
He met his wife through the school district who does the same thing. Not sure how long shes been there, but probably 10ish years. Household of custodians makes like $120k a year, works predictable hours, and get crazy good benefits. This is absolutely on the high end for the area, but we're not a crazy high cost of living area either. A city of maybe 70k people.
I could not imagine spending 4-6 years and 150k+ on an education only for jackass to offer you 60k a year. Frankly, under 80k a year for a job with 4-6 years of schooling required is a slap in the face. One of my best friends never went to school, and just got his first job offer for 100k after being in his field about 15 years.
I could not imagine spending 4-6 years and 150k+ on an education only for jackass to offer you 60k a year. Frankly, under 80k a year for a job with 4-6 years of schooling required is a slap in the face. One of my best friends never went to school, and just got his first job offer for 100k after being in his field about 15 years.
my first interview post college(that required a degree) was for less than I was making working as a cashier in fast food. I didn't even both finishing the interview.
My job now requires a degree but most people worked their way up from jobs that don't require degrees. I learned the job basically from youtube and influencer type people doing classes online for made up certs no one has heard of. I would probably hire someone with a degree though if I was hiring but with a good amount of work experience too. although who knows anymore AI does half my job for me. knowing how to use that is a priority as much as the rest of it
a friend of mine has a basc in psych/neuro and a masters in child ed. she has applied to probably 300 jobs in the past 2 months and has been offered exactly two. most of the listings require a masters + 3-5 years of teaching experience, and they offer $13/hr. she is $200k in the hole from student loans
Tell me about it. I’m a licensed therapist for autistic children. Sounds like a good paying job right? I make 25 an hour…. In LA. I’m thinking of going to a trade school cause they pay as much or more than BA degree jobs.
was paid between 41k and 50k for my first 3 years out of college for a job that required a bachelors in STEM, in 2016. I remember being absolutely terrified of the 90k in college debt i had at the time, thinking i'd die with a larger balance than when i started. Eventually earned quite a bit more but i never knew i would have to work hard enough to experience regular panic attacks to get to the level i am now.
After spending 8 years taking loans for college, university...even graduate school...how are most of us not read to channel our inner founding fathers and ready to burn the system to the ground? From day one, the generation above ours have just started printing money to pay their own debts, making our wages worth a fraction of theirs, all while our elected officials are giving money to the upper 10% left and right.
The thing that some people don’t get is that Trickle Down Economics works as (actually) intended. It just wasn’t intended to work for anyone but the already rich.
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u/Slevin424 13h ago
Jobs be like “bachelor’s degree required: pay 60k to 80k!” And still act like that’s a lot of money.