Retail workers are quitting at record rates for higher-paying work: ‘My life isn’t worth a dead-end
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Man's is a fukking idiot, it's incredibleIn your eyes, the whole country should have either a degree, a cert, or a shyt load of stocks and options. If not, they're losers.
What alternate universe do you live in?
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The fukked up part is, dude is obviously smart. But how can anybody sit there and say that unless someone has one of A, B, C or D, then they aint worth shyt?
Like, what?
Ezekiel 25:17
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Never that. Wendy's back in the 80s was paying $4.25
Hood folks where also working Construction labor, warehouse, and manufacturing jobs. Them was all our Grandfathers and uncles did.
Ezekiel 25:17
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In your eyes, the whole country should have either a degree, a cert, or a shyt load of stocks and options. If not, they're losers.
What alternate universe do you live in?
Degrees, certs, brains, or skilled labor. That's how the world has been the past 100 years. You been sleeping under a rock?
CEO of Morgan Industries
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They can still do that too....What type of pie ass kids y’all raising?
No they can't, stupid ass. College prep is a full-time job in and of itself these days.
Be a stupid-ass parent who tells kids to get a job wrapping Whoppers at Burger King that takes precious hours away from schoolwork, volunteerism, SAT and essay prep, etc., brehs.
Field Marshall Bradley
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one person doesn’t make a company billions.... unless it’s the entertainment industry.... otherwise, your thinking is flawed
The fukked up part is, dude is obviously smart. But how can anybody sit there and say that unless someone has one of A, B, C or D, then they aint worth shyt?
Like, what?
Nothing is going to be handed to you, affordable housing is what you make of it, get a roommate, live at home. It's an infantile way of thinking....18 and above you gotta be able to think critically and see 1600 a month isn't doable for a middle class lifestyle...
Hot skills determine the wages....Flipping burgers and being a carpenter's apprentice are two different weight classes.
Field Marshall Bradley
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See.... this how I know we in trouble for real.... these types of posts.... if this is a dude, hopefully he won’t get the chance to reproduce and pass his punk ass genes on to another generation.....
Ezekiel 25:17
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You're both right and wrong.
Back in the days, you could work a few summer jobs and have enough for college. This day and age though college is so expensive and you wasting your time. Unless kids stack up every cent throughout high school and even then they'll still have to deal with school work and still apply for grants and scholarships.
The push should be cheaper college and access to trade school, more so increasing wages. Increasing wages is a temporary band aid, but if you make college more affordable then you have more people moving up the ranks.
Field Marshall Bradley
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But I get your point tho.... Wages are the real culprit
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ThatTruth777
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Sheesh.. with the way yall accept people being treated like this, no wonder society is getting more debased and violent.
CEO of Morgan Industries
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See.... this how I know we in trouble for real.... these types of posts.... if this is a dude, hopefully he won’t get the chance to reproduce and pass his punk ass genes on to another generation.....
Shut up, ho. This is why you and your punk ass kids won't ever achieve shyt. Hustling backwards having them work for pennies at a job that won't set them up for shyt with your dumb ass.
Broke bytches like you don't get women anyway, so you won't have kids that will be begging me for change one day any fukkin way, otherwise I'd advise you to stab yourself in the dikk and save us all some trouble.
The issue I have is that if you're working toward a four-year college, you want to lower costs via scholarships, and that means loading up on as much extracurricular shyt as possible. One of the biggest mistakes I see college-bound kids making is that they don't apply for scholarships that they are able to get. Working PT at a Starbucks doesn't make sense when you can do college prep, volunteer at a non-profit, and hold down multiple school activities and get that tuition waiver and book money instead.
Now, if you're talking college-age students, that's different - work a PT service job makes sense so you can have some spending money, gas money, etc. High school kids looking at four-years can use their time better. I agree that college costs are too high, but that all can be mitigated if you're smart and if you have a resume that isn't depending heavily on "bussed tables for three years at Denny's" or whatever.
(It's also wise to do your two years of GE at a community college to save money and then do the last two years at a four-year, etc., but that's outside the scope of this thread.)
If you're working toward a trade, you're still going to college for two years, and you're better off trying to get into your field at a lower-level or working internships in the field you're going into early rather than taking these jobs. Spending three to four years interning with or working around the field that you want to go in gives you an advantage over students that didn't do that.
It's about working smarter as well as harder, but I think a lot of kids just don't know, and a lot of parents don't really know either, about the ways you can get a four-year degree and not even pay for it (which is what I did - didn't pay a cent for my Bachelor's degree
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Field Marshall Bradley
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Fast food work was a livable wage at one point.... probably 78 to 89.... at least in the south