LIVING IN MOM & DAD’S BASEMENT

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Pirate Jo
Pirate Jo

I went through the same thing Kepi did. Back in 92/93 the wage was $7.00 an hour and not $10.00, but it was the same type of situation. I got my degree in accounting – a hard, boring subject – because I thought that would get me a better job. But I ended up surrounded by a whole bunch of other 22-year-olds with accounting degrees, all of us making $7.00 an hour in jobs that didn’t really require a college degree. (Although once the job market was flooded with college graduates like us who would take anything, those jobs DID require a college degree.) Anyway, that wasn’t enough money to scrape by on, after paying for rent, food, and utilities and putting gas in my car.

My solution was to get a second job rather than live with my parents. So I worked 40 hours a week at my $7.00 job and another 20-30 hours a week at my part-time retail job which paid $5.15 an hour, minimum wage at the time. It took everything I made between those two jobs to get by. It took me an entire year to pay off the $1,000 I had on my credit card – only to have to borrow another $1,000 when the engine in my piece of crap car blew a head gasket.

As the years went by, I got better full-time jobs and better part-time jobs until when I was 28 or 29 I was finally able to quit my second job and live off one job. I sympathize with the situation the Millennials face, but I have to question whether this is anything new. This was going on 20 years ago, and with the exception of a tiny handful of years in the early 2000’s, hasn’t the job market always sucked? Especially for recent college grads?

llpoh
llpoh

Goldorack is still a moron.

Kepi – working for the government is not real work. So sorry. But it explains your idiot bosses.

PJ did it the right way. She doesn’t mention blowing money on Starbucks and video games and DVDs. Self-restraint is also a human nature – just one that fewer have. Studies show around 1 in 3 have it. The other 2 of 3 blow what they get immediately.

Kepi
Kepi

I disagree when you’re talking about government agencies that actually provide services to and are accessed by the general public (government run utilities, police, fire, etc.). The paper pusher jobs? Sure, most of the time that’s not work, but police and fire services are pretty much the same service provision formula as private industry.

llpoh
llpoh

Of course you do. All government workers think they are hard working, underpaid, underappreciated. All teachers think that. All police and firemen think that. All government servants think that. All road workers on the government payroll, all meter readers, all sanitation workers, all licensing workers, etc etc etc. think that.

So sorry – they are all wrong, at least collectively they are wrong.

Tell me – how many folks have you seen fired from your government job? Not laid off, but actually fired for non-performance or poor performance? It just never fucking happens. And that tells you all you need to know – sub-standard performance is allowed, and as it is allowed it becomes the norm.

Firing a government worker is so rare as to be essentially non-existent. Governments should be firing 5 to 10% of their workforce EVERY year for poor performance. No kidding – there must be a penalty for poor performance. But not for government workers. The bottom layer should be forced out continuously – but it does not happen. You are more likely to die than be fired if you work for a government.

The federal government fires 0.55% of its employees each year for poor performance – 12,000 per year out of 2+ million employees. The state department fired 6 out of 28,000. Unbelievable.

Bah.

indialantic
indialantic

I have found great appreciation in the comments posted above from everyone, young and old. Some universal truths from my own experience for what it’s worth:

(1) Life is sometimes harsh and unforgiving. Depend on no one but yourself.

(2) Nobody owes you anything in life. Period.

(3) Never underestimate the ability of people to disappoint you.

(4) Make your mistakes in life. Then, forgive yourself and move on.

(5) Be loyal to your employer even if he has none for you.

(6) Think before you speak. Watch your mouth.

(7) Outside of family and a few friends, nobody really gives a damn about you.

(8) Integrity and character make you who you are. Keep them close at all times.

(9) Be noble and rise above the pettiness of others.

(10) Gossip is usually the activity of selfish and inferior people.

(11) Knowledge and wisdom are not the same thing.

(12) Mind your own business at every opportunity.

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