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18 May ’16
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Money.
I started out rig welding just after high school and a little bit of trade school (after walking out of an interview for one of the factories in my home town). The money was great. But after a year or so I was tired of working hundred and 30 hour weeks. So I hired on with a company that does industrial setup and apprenticed as a millwright. The money wasn't as good. But I actually had some time at home.
Finished my apprenticeship and sought out a job that had me home every night instead of being in Spain one week or California the next.
It's all a means to an end. With any luck my land will be paid off in the next two years and I can work there for myself instead of for someone else.
4 Mar ’12
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hello CJ and welcome to the forum. I saw something that stuck out to me in one of your posts and I would like to comment on it.
"The answer to not making enough money is simple. Before I hired on with the company I now work for I interviewed with another company for the same job position. I didn’t like the compensation they offered. So I told them no and moved on."
In this world we live in, there are a good number of people who live paycheck to paycheck. You may find it somewhat surprising to know that 76% of Americans currently are living from paycheck to paycheck.
http://money.cnn.com.....y-savings/
many of these people have lost their high paying jobs and have been forced to work lesser jobs, many of the jobs only offering a part-time position.
As you may understand, NONE of them can afford to walk away from ANY job offer when they have a family to feed and need money.
22% of the 1,000 people recently surveyed had less than $100 in savings to cover an emergency, while 46% had less than $800.
So while you may be living the dream, you need to recognize there is a serious problem with people not making enough money to survive. 3/4 of our country are 1 paycheck away from being homeless.
44.4 million people are on food stamps. More than 45 million people, or 14.5 percent of all Americans, lived below the poverty line last year.
Inequality Between America's Rich and Poor Is at a 30-Year High
http://www.theatlant.....gh/383866/
under the current system, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. If it wasn't for minimum wage laws, people would make even less than they do today.
If you are still thinking that is OK, there's not much else to say.
18 May ’16
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I wouldn't say I'm living the dream. Not yet anyway.
And yes. There are many people that live paycheck to paycheck. My mother and father were two such people. But it was because of their decisions. I am currently making the decision to work as much as I can so I'm better off later in life. My parents whom are otherwise great hard working people decided to not take precautions when they were younger and ended up having my brother and I when they were 14 years old. They started out their adult lives at a disadvantage because of that decision.
It took a long time for them to get their lives together. But they eventually did.
So what is the answer? Have dictate how much a job is worth? Or maybe just maybe get the government out of the money business so it's not artificially inflated? Maybe we could also stop the government from interfeering with the business market too while we're at it.
Well breaks over. Time to work.
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15 Feb ’12
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One thing I would like to see is the debt level of the average person living paycheck to paycheck, when we were going through it for over a decade it was because of the debt we had. The quickest way we got out of it was get rid of the second car, using that payment to pay down our high interest credit cards, sold our timeshare, sold our camp that we weren't using, etc.
Luckily we have never been house poor, I have way too many friends trapped financially because of that.
15 Feb ’12
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Former McDonalds CEO on the matter
As fast-food workers across the country vie for $15 per hour wages, many business owners have already begun to take humans out of the picture.
4 Mar ’12
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just to put everything into perspective
The McDonald's CEO got his salary super-sized. The fast food chain's chief executive, Steve Easterbrook, brought home a whopping $7.91 million last year — a 368% raise over his 2014 salary of $1.69 million —while low-wage McDonald's workers are striking around the country for a livable income. Apr 16, 2016
18 May ’16
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And? The more responsibility you have and the fewer people that can do your job the more you're going to make.
Like has already been said in here. Minimum wage jobs were never intended to be career choices. What part of that don't you get?
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