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Wow, I've been at my job for a year and a half and I barely make $1,600 a month. I really need to start school in the Fall. :/
 
The cost of living up here is nuts. I pay $650 for my half of rent in our 1BR (so it's $1300/month).

We're moving when the lease ends because we found out my parent's neighbor rents houses, so we can get a sweet deal.

The misses works in the same department as me, but she makes a lot more since she's a FT university staff person. The starting FT positions at the university start around $35k here due to the cost of living. Before we graduated we both worked as supervisors here, and she ended up getting like a 66% pay increase when she started FT.
 
[quote name='tiredfornow']Wow, I've been at my job for a year and a half and I barely make $1,600 a month. I really need to start school in the Fall. :/[/QUOTE]

That's eerily similar to me.
 
[quote name='tiredfornow']Wow, I've been at my job for a year and a half and I barely make $1,600 a month. I really need to start school in the Fall. :/[/quote]

Yeah that is thing, it just sounds crazy for an entry level job. But we'll see.
 
And you have a baby, lordwow! :whee:

I hate to sound rude, but does it stink that your degree is kind of useless at the moment?

I wish I were getting paid a bit more, but I should be happy I even have a job. I have friends that finished school last year and they're still working at Target/Walmart/whatever department/retail store and lookin' at me like "Man, you get paid 500-600 bucks more than I do." Also have really good health insurance and they're pretty understanding for the most part when shit hits the fan, so I really can't complain.[quote name='st0neface']That's eerily similar to me.[/quote]we're just some true ass $$$$as.. not much more to it. *hi-5*
 
Ya mang, I tell people my degree isn't worth the paper it's printed on. They had an undergrad kid call me and say "oh you know how hard it is to pay for school, can't you donate some money" "Ya... I do know, I pay my fucking student loans bill every month."

That's why I'm applying to a grad program. Gotta get a degree that has a job market.
 
28k a year is really nice for being 16, just getting out of high school, and still living at home, iletanescortlickmybutthole05. Dude just barely got his drivers license and had his first big road trip last night.
 
[quote name='tiredfornow']we're just some true ass $$$$as.. not much more to it. *hi-5*[/QUOTE]

True, very true.


$15 an hour is a lot for an entry level job, cmart05.
 
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[quote name='tiredfornow']28k a year is really nice for being 16, just getting out of high school, and still living at home, iletanescortlickmybutthole05.[/quote]

I was 20 when I got my current job, no degree, and I started at 30k a year, imakelamejokesthatonlytwopeoplelaughatnow.
 
Try going out and getting a $30k/year job now man. I've been trying for almost a year. With a degree and years of work experience.
 
[quote name='lordwow']Try going out and getting a $30k/year job now man. I've been trying for almost a year. With a degree and years of work experience.[/quote]

Oh I absolutely agree. I know people much older than me, with degrees like in your situation that are out of a job and have to work at like Wal-Mart or Target or something like that.

I was lucky to land this job right before the economy took a big shit. The market out there sucks.
 
[quote name='Rocko']Thanks for the tip on ID Watchdog, stoneface. Just credited for me.

I really wish YF360G had the RB2 drums.[/QUOTE]

The FFA link worked this morning, so I did it here at work. I'm hoping it goes through, my MCRs always just get ignored.
 
[quote name='cmart05']That's $28,800 and if that's before taxes he's looking at most $20-22k a year. That's not alot at all.[/quote]
It's a shitload more than i make a year. Hell, i don't even make 10 grand a year.

At least i'm looking for another job this summer, hoping for an internship or actual job in IT.
 
Ya, my department is supposed to be for student employees, but now 90% of the supervisors are recent grads who can't get a job and can't leave this job because it pays more than anything out there.
 
I shit my pants just knowing I was going to getting 70-100 bucks more on each paycheck with a raise. It was a gift from the gods and now I can buy more mighty muggs and GI joes.[quote name='cmart05']I was 20 when I got my current job, no degree, and I started at 30k a year, thebestmostawesomeposterintheOTT.[/quote]ok.. and?
 
You can definitely live off of $22/year, but it's not very comfortable. I bring home 0 each month after rent, utilities, transportation, student loans, food, and the maybe $10-$15 I spend on entertainment.

The irony is that if the misses didn't have her FT job, we'd probably get everything paid for by the state.
 
I can't complain too much i guess, i couldn't find an easier job or one that afforded me so much time for school work. Still, knowing someone with an internship making around $20 an hour while i'm stuck here sucks.
 
Ya, it's sort of awkward that our co-ops we bring in get paid more than I do despite the fact I've been working here for 4 years or so.
 
[quote name='lordwow']Ya, it's sort of awkward that our co-ops we bring in get paid more than I do despite the fact I've been working here for 4 years or so.[/quote]

There's no loyalty with companies anymore. It used to be back in the day most people were with one company for 10-20+ years and you were "taken care of."

Now a days from what I hear the average person doesn't last more than 5 years with a company and that hurts us as the employees because that loyalty between company and employer is almost non-existent in most companies now.
 
Ya, my boss complained I wasn't taking on the co-op's job responsibilities when they got cut due to the economy, I was like... well.. I don't get paid to do that. That's pretty much the attitude you gotta take.

Ya, the stimulus $10/week is pretty :cool:
 
[quote name='Admiral Ackbar']Woot Woot, the stimulous bill just staretd showing up in my paycheck!

Twenty more bucks every two weeks. \\:D/[/quote]

lol you just got it? I saw mine two weeks ago, it's definitely nice.
 
[quote name='cmart05']There's no loyalty with companies anymore. It used to be back in the day most people were with one company for 10-20+ years and you were "taken care of."

Now a days from what I hear the average person doesn't last more than 5 years with a company and that hurts us as the employees because that loyalty between company and employer is almost non-existent in most companies now.[/quote]
Yeah people change jobs more often now than ever before. Which i think a lot of it is people getting better offers, either a higher position or more money. Nothing wrong with leaving a job so long as your next one advances you in some way.
 
I've been told before not to refuse a request from your boss. Saying "that isn't my job description" or " i don't get paid for that" is a good way to get canned. Of course, if you hate your job that may not matter. Job descriptions are basically non-existent today anyway.

I wish i got that stimulus money, but i don't pay taxes as it is, so no Obama bucks for me. I will at least get a bump in pay in July when the minimum wage increases to over $7
 
[quote name='JolietJake']I've been told before not to refuse a request from your boss. Saying "that isn't my job description" or " i don't get paid for that" is a good way to get canned. Of course, if you hate your job that may not matter. Job descriptions are basically non-existent today anyway.
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It is.
 
[quote name='FriskyTanuki']Wow's already been threatened with being canned on technicalities, so he's just using that same tactic on his bosses.[/QUOTE]

Ya, that meeting came after they told me I was being let go, so I wasn't in any mood to help them out.
 
[quote name='JolietJake']I've been told before not to refuse a request from your boss. Saying "that isn't my job description" or " i don't get paid for that" is a good way to get canned. Of course, if you hate your job that may not matter. Job descriptions are basically non-existent today anyway.[/quote]

Well absolutely, if you get a better offer somewhere definitely use that to your advantage though things have changed now.

Back in the day it would be, you would get a better offer somewhere else, bring it up to your current boss before making any decisions, talk about what your current company can do for you to make you stay and if nothing can be worked out you end your tenure with the company mutually. This leaves the door open to possibly come back to that job if your new one fails in any way, shape, or form.


Now a days it's get offered new-job, immediately hand in re-signation papers, leave 2 days later.
 
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