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I'm glad they are getting that money (or were?), but the fucked up thing is knowing that's literally more than I get in a month working 30 hours a week of the hardest job I've had in 15 years. ๐
I'm betting the two people who downvoted me would happily tell me to just get a better job. ๐
I wish you got that money too.
You are getting paid less than $8.33/hr at a challenging job?
Unless you're getting hella personal satisfaction you need to pound pavement.
The hardest jobs I've had have all been the lowest paying.
Higher paying jobs tend to have higher entry requirements but it also means the employer actually values you (like, literally places a high monetary value on you because at the end of the day that is what capitalism demands)
This idea that low paying jobs are easy is wrong. Being replaceable makes you vulnerable to exploitation and abuse.
Yep.
It's the way market forces work.
Markets aren't moral. So while this is how it works, that doesn't make it good. It's so important for governments to protect workers for exactly this reason.
On this front, America is a literal joke.
I'm not joking when I say that I have put in at least 1-3 applications every single day for 3 months now and all the while making calls to the companies to check on the application process. I could go into elaborate detail about how much pavement pounding I've done, but honestly I'm just too tired and exhausted with life and just want to tell you to go fuck yourself.
I didn't mean to sound like I was blaming you - I realize how it came across that way and I'm sorry.
Your situation sucks. And I know you're not alone, there are tons of areas that have what basically works out to a labor surplus. It drives wages down because there's no protection for workers and the minimum wage is a fucking joke.
Yeah, sorry, just feels like I get beat down every day and then people hit you with "just get a better job", "just stop being depressed", etc. It's very exhausting to live these days.
How does that work?!
mind you if there was reasonable social security like a payment to the jobless, exploitation like that would be harder. It feels like countries like the US fight social security to make it easier to pay people almost nothing, by keeping the danger of homelessness and lack of healthcare real.
not presuming you're in the US, that income would honestly make more sense in a less developed part of the world. I hope that's not an insult ๐ฌ
It feels like an insult. I'm in Indiana.
sorry ๐
So a less developed part of the world, got it
Well you're not wrong there. ๐