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One: Hire contractors on-demand as specific skill sets are needed.
Two: Poach.
Three: Poach.
Four: Poach.
On-the-job training is pretty rare as a result.
A lot of this is Silicon Valley practices coming to St Louis now that tech is exploding here. Even though Missouri does not have the strong protections against non-competes that California has, companies who enforce strong non-competes are finding it too difficult to get candidates.
(Meanwhile, companies who cannot offer competitive salaries are recruiting for entry level talent and binding them with the highly restrictive non-competes allowed under Missouri law: 24 month blanket clauses covering the entire state and/or hundreds of miles.)
I know that individual stories on the internet are worthless but we are the only ones that make what we make with what we make it with.
We make it on machinery that is 80 years old which gives it properties that are hard to duplicate with new machinery.
As a teenager, you lived on your own and could support yourself through a paper route or some other min wage job?
Where did you live?
In your parents basement?
Because min wage are jobs meant for 16 year olds with working papers, not the head of a household who has to support a family.
When did I say I was living on my own working a paper route? You seem to be mixing up posts, I have never had a paper route.
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Are you claiming that you were able to live alone on minimum wage?
Years ago, I was working just above minimum wage and owned a 2 bedroom condo that I could afford on my own, though I did have a roommate at the time to free up money.
When did I say I was living on my own working a paper route? You seem to be mixing up posts, I have never had a paper route.
Years ago, I was working just above minimum wage and owned a 2 bedroom condo that I could afford on my own, though I did have a roommate at the time to free up money.
That is certainly not my recollection, do you have data that would support that claim? There is a 'ripple effect' from minimum wage increases but economists have found that it is limited to those making less than 150% of the minimum wage. And I checked several sources and all of them appear to show that wages took a dump in 2009
When did I say I was living on my own working a paper route? You seem to be mixing up posts, I have never had a paper route.
I said "or through some other minimum wage job".
Nice try....
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Years ago, I was working just above minimum wage and owned a 2 bedroom condo that I could afford on my own, though I did have a roommate at the time to free up money.
So under minimum wage can afford one a 2 bed condo.
Roommate to help with the bills is a plus.
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