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This is a NYC forum, and there are no Walmarts in NYC, so that's a non-issue. NYC has a $15 minimum wage. So if the OP can get a full time job, or a couple of part time jobs to total 40 hours/week, that's $30K/year. Now that's not really great in NYC, but it probably lets your rent a room somewhere in the city and let's you eat. That gets him off the ground, and he can start moving up from there.
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Originally Posted by pierrepont7731
Walmart pays what? Likely not enough for the OP to afford his rent...
This is a NYC forum, and there are no Walmarts in NYC, so that's a non-issue. NYC has a $15 minimum wage. So if the OP can get a full time job, or a couple of part time jobs to total 40 hours/week, that's $30K/year. Now that's not really great in NYC, but it probably lets your rent a room somewhere in the city and let's you eat. That gets him off the ground, and he can start moving up from there.
Yeah, but I believe there are some just over the border in Long Island. I have never been to any here. In fact, I haven't been in a Walmart since I was in college, so it's been a while to say the least. lol My question is though, with rents being so high, would that even be enough to rent a room? I don't know what that yields in take-home pay a month.
I got a job, savings, apartment (that I don't have to share with non-family)... and I'll still say it is appalingly easy to become homeless.
There are those rent-a-room agencies on Grand Concourse. I had to do it for 3 months. Not good prices, not good co-residents, not good neighborhoods but, it beats sleeping on a subway station floor, or worse a men's homeless shelter. Need some pays stubs to apply there.
I avoided true homelessness in my youth by joining the Army. I was clean, fit, did well on the ASVAB and, the Army represented a generally much safer life than being homeless. From there I saved. I consider myself very lucky I was fit for military service.
I avoided true homelessness in my youth by joining the Army. I was clean, fit, did well on the ASVAB and, the Army represented a generally much safer life than being homeless. From there I saved. I consider myself very lucky I was fit for military service.
I was thinking of joining the army as a youth but it was expressly forbidden by my parents because the military has historically treated Blacks like trash after honorable discharge.
Aside from that the problem remains Americans are at extremely poor health and most will fail the ASVAB. So we're going to have a lot of homeless young Men rioting in the streets soon with this eviction crisis. Not enough space in jail for all of them.
I got a job, savings, apartment (that I don't have to share with non-family)... and I'll still say it is appalingly easy to become homeless.
There are those rent-a-room agencies on Grand Concourse. I had to do it for 3 months. Not good prices, not good co-residents, not good neighborhoods but, it beats sleeping on a subway station floor, or worse a men's homeless shelter. Need some pays stubs to apply there.
I avoided true homelessness in my youth by joining the Army. I was clean, fit, did well on the ASVAB and, the Army represented a generally much safer life than being homeless. From there I saved. I consider myself very lucky I was fit for military service.
See what happens when you aren't indoctrinated from birth that race determines everything in life?
The ASVAB and PT exams ain't that hard to get a minimum score. If much of American society can't do that, that's a problem with civilian society not the military.
See what happens when you aren't indoctrinated from birth that race determines everything in life?
Um yes true... but, I'm White.
Either way, all the Black guys I know that joined the Army, whether they stayed in or ETSd after 1 contract, all doing better than I am, and rightly so.
As someone who was homeless, (Twice.) in my youth - neither was by choice nor my fault, when circumstances exist which makes an area unsuitable for a residence its best to pack your bags and head for greener pastures. I relocated while I was in my mid thirties, moving 600 miles away from everyone I knew. Two years later and still a bachelor, I bought my first house. Flipped the next three before flipping houses was a thing. Moving was the best decision I ever made.
I was thinking of joining the army as a youth but it was expressly forbidden by my parents because the military has historically treated Blacks like trash after honorable discharge.
Aside from that the problem remains Americans are at extremely poor health and most will fail the ASVAB. So we're going to have a lot of homeless young Men rioting in the streets soon with this eviction crisis. Not enough space in jail for all of them.
Merchant marine academy is a viable option. If I could do it all over again then I would have joined them. Non-military, government subsidized trade school with a guaranteed job on graduation.
USMMA is intended to produce Merchant Marine Officers. The school itself doesn't train people to become a professional military officer. While you're required to join the Naval Reserves as a condition of being a student, it's a separate arm of the Reserves intended for crewing the merchant fleet in a time of war, not fighting in the Active fleet. Even the coursework you take as a Midshipman at USMMA will be different from the Naval Academy and NROTC kids, since they're training to become Unrestricted Line Officers (SWO, Sub, NA/NFO, or SEALs) and you're training to operate cargo ships. There is very much a reputation that they take the "leftovers" of the folks applying to USNA/USMA/USAFA. While there's plenty of interest, the service academy application process is long and full of bull****.
Anyway, OP can deliver food for uber/doordash to make some cash in the meantime even though that's hyper- competitive or work in the restaurant food industry which as others said is heavily hiring now. Plenty of new immigrants work there and while the conditions aren't great at least there will or should be free/heavily subsidized meals (if there isn't then consider walking).
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I don't know what that yields in take-home pay a month.
