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Old 01-08-2017, 09:22 PM
 
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Originally Posted by jco5055 View Post
now she expects she'll never be able to buy a house thanks to the debt etc she's built up because "I haven't ever had a livable wage in my life".
because she doesn't try to live on $14/hr or whatever, she wants to live on $25/hr or what her debt is making up

not saying that you are highly paid there, but someone that doesn't manage living expenses is dumb/lazy. If they know they can't live on it, get a second job, or a higher paying one

yes, it sucks working 80 hrs/week but if they can double their income, then why don't they? they can use the money to fund future education/moving & living costs while looking for a better job

does anyone lament that a programmer or doctor working 80 hours/week but makes $150k+? yes, they get paid more, no they don't have 40 hour days while the rest of us have 24 hours. They do what they do in order to make the money they want.

for your case, if you don't want to make $14/hr, then talk to your boss about a raise or learning something that the company pays more for and get promoted/transferred. Leave the company and find a different one. Or put in more hours into working there or somewhere else.

attend a 5-6 week class on drawing blood, then go work for a hospital/outpatient center/medical office and make $15/hr trading the hassle of managing contractors for a different kind of hassle. Or in same time period, take a EMT course and make the same $15/hr with a different set of stress. Wait tables and get $15/hr from pay+tips. Walk dogs/babysit for $15. Tutor kids for $15/hr

you sticking it out there is good if you want to use that experience to build into a career. If you are holding the job because it "pays", then don't stick around because at $15/hr, you can literally do any job and net the same pay


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The way I was raised, it was the "don't complain, just show your abilities/talents/hard work etc and you will be rewarded"
you are complaining... to us. "working hard" doesn't imply only during the hours you are at work. Work hard by using your abilities where you can to make money that you want. You know you want to do more, so work hard for a short period of your life and do a second job. or take whatever form of action you want. Sticking it out is not working hard anymore than telling someone in an abusive relationship that it will get better. It takes action for things to get better. actions gets results, complaining is hot air.

You are not taking action at your job, you show up and do what the job says and you get paid. Why would the company take a different action when their contract with you is for $14/hr and for you perform the duties you agreed to? Your action of learning the job got you that small raise, take some more action for more raises

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