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how do people actually survive on $9/hr in 2019. it blows my mind people havent started dying over this yet

>> No.12611017

>>12611002
About to start my $12.5 hour work day. Independent contractor is a way to work around minimum wage rules

>> No.12611029

>>12611017
I dont get how you survive on $12.5/hr either if I'm being honest. I don't get how anyone survives on less than $18-20/hr. Shit is way too expensive for that.

>> No.12611102

>>12611002
a wagie at my old job used to eat canned green beans on her lunch break. Idk how she did it I would have kms for sure.

>> No.12611126

>>12611029
Its cheap as fuck in some US states, assuming youre not a normie mong and the UK I hear is cheap as well, away from cities like most things.

>> No.12611127

>just read job description
>needs a Bachelors in acct/fin and 3-7 years experience
>pay is 45k
>it's in a major city with a high CoL
What kind of ridiculous shit have you guys seen out there? Are employers just retarded or are they spoiled because there are hundreds of pajeet who will fill shit like this?

>> No.12611140

>>12611002
Chinese people can live off of 4 dollars a day

>> No.12611182
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>>12611140
talking about the US fag, cost of living is relative

>>12611126
cost of living doesn't vary THAT much state to state. I mean unless you found one of those apartments for like $200/month in middle of absolute nowhere, but then I doubt any employer would pay more than $9/hr

it's not the olden days anon where the government used to hand out 70 acre land grants to people like they did for the boomers

>>12611127
pretty much exactly what you said. I've seen worse.
funny, my dad graduated college in the 80s and his first job was for 45k. wages literally haven't budged in 30 years.

>> No.12611185

>>12611029
Parents.
Ima ask for a raise on Monday. The only thing keeping from bursting out and quitting is having a few extra bucks to accumulate muh link

>> No.12611203

>>12611182
I did some research on some of the "Nicer" places in Ohio and assuming you had even like 10-20k in savings to put a down payment on a 100k home. Your rent per month including utilities and a 30yr/m would only be around 500-750 a month which is livable at around 12.50 an hour. The rest of the budget is up to what you prioritize but COL is low in some areas. Just make sure you border PA for work in areas up there because Ohio is lacking.

>> No.12611356

>>12611182
>wages literally haven't budged in 30 years.
But CoL has skyrocketed 5x if not higher and tuition has increased 20x. It really makes you want to Oklahoma City a wealthy boomer retirement village.
1500 a month...that barely covers rent and food. What are they smoking? I'd spit on them. Shit is so fucking fucked, I don't even know what to do to liberate myself from poverty in these conditions.

>> No.12611382

>>12611002
living with parents. idk how many other people i know my age that are still with their parents up to even 30 years old. it ranges from people who went to college and owe shit tons of student debt to other people who just cant find jobs paying more than $10 and hour. Ive been investing since before i got out of high school and i wasn't stupid enough to pay 30k for a useless degree.

>> No.12611390

>>12611002
My dear negro, I live in an EU country and the highest hourly wage I ever got was $3.8/hour.

If it wasn't for free movement, people would actually start a revolution.
Now if someone wants better wages he has to suck it up and leave his home country.

>> No.12611398

>>12611127
>What kind of ridiculous shit have you guys seen out there?
I seen a graphic/web designer position that required Bachelor's degree, to manage the website, help with SEO, advertising, creating graphics, talking with clients at $12 an hour. Even Fiverr pays more than that.

>> No.12611402

>>12611390
I'm talking about US anon

>> No.12611492

>>12611127
>requires a master's degree
>requires you to move to London
>20,000 GBP per year for 40 hours a week, overtime expected.
>no chance of advancement

I ghosted the fuck out the recruiter after that.

>> No.12611516

>>12611002
They raise chickens in their backyards.
Eggs+meat for almost free.
And maybe some eat roadkill.

>> No.12611766

>>12611140
Chinese are insects. Also, a cockroach can live 3 weeks without its head - so what was your point anon?

>> No.12611960

>>12611102
I'm about to kill myself. I make $7/hr and have to move out of my mom's house next month. I can't afford to rent a place on this pay and no one will hire me for a better job. I plan on killing myself at my companies entrance, so check the news next month to hear about me. It's in the US if you're curious

>> No.12611978

They live with parents / a spouse who make more, or they are single moms getting tons of government gibmedats.

>> No.12611991

>>12611960
What the fuck? If you're literate enough to post on the internet you should be able to get a better job. Even a retarded illiterate spic can make 14/hour.

>> No.12612013

Communal living, staying with family or roommates. The only really expensive thing in a first world country is housing.

>> No.12612024

>>12611991
The worst part is I have programming experience yet ended up here. Can't find a job to save my life. I used to make $25/hr and now I make close to nothing. Trust me I tried. I have depression and can't pretend to be excited during interviews and programming has gimped my opportunity to get any decent non-programming job. and I can't get a decent programming job because of my bad interview skills. Even if I found a way to fix these things, I don't have enough time since I will be moving out next month. Even if a company hired me, the hiring process for software is 3+ weeks, I will have died by then. I am a loser and will die one, but at the very least I hope I can get back at my employer for this.

>> No.12612031

>>12611002
And yet you boot licking morons will continue supporting republicans that want more than to shit on workers and keep Americans poor

>> No.12612051

>>12612024
Trying to get hired as a programmer is retarded, your wages are being destroyed by hordes of pajeets. Make something for yourself and sell that.

>> No.12612086

>>12612031
both sides screw you over. republicans want less government, democrats want more. any sane person would never vote left. democrat = socialism

>> No.12612114

Blame it on niggers and spics, instead of blaming capitalism. You fucking brainlets deserve trump, i hope you idiot republican cunts end up sick and homeless in your land of coca cola :)

>> No.12612121

>>12612051
>get hired as a programmer is retarded

Yes I found this shit out, programming is a fucking trap unless you have the best connections in the world or you simply luck out. I saw my fucking wages drop each god damn fucking year. I fell for the con because my starting pay was higher than all my peers. then it ended up below theirs. It's humiliating. I tried to escape programming world but it now haunts me on my resume. People simply won't hire programmers for their labor job because they think you will leave them for a programming job. I fucked my life over by ever getting into programming.

>make something for yourself and sell that

Me working for $7/hr was the result of 5 years of me trying to do exactly that. I had a lot of projects on the side, all failed. Just because you try to start a business does not mean it will be successful.

>> No.12612139

>>12612024
>I have depression and can't pretend to be excited during interviews and
Fucking whiner, everyone on 4chan has depression. I think about kms daily and still do great in interviews and make those bitches laugh, bitches love laughing. Stop being a whiny self pitying loser and fix your shit, or find a hole to crawl in and die.
No one hires an unemployed person. Just get a starbucks job or something, they pay like 14 after tips. They throw your resume in the trash if you have a shitty 7/hour job.

>> No.12612152

>>12612051
>Trying to get hired as a programmer is retarded, your wages are being destroyed by hordes of pajeets. Make something for yourself and sell that.
"learn to code"

i check an online jobs forum and when noobs ask what skill should they learn some drooling fat fuck always suggest to learn programming...

yeah, try competing with 3rd worlders

>> No.12612159

>>12611126
>the UK I hear is cheap as well, away from cities like most things.
not really

>> No.12612163

>>12612139
You complain about whining when you're whining? Not sure why I should listen to you when I already said what I'm going to do.

>> No.12612545

>>12611203
nigga most people barely have any savings at all

>> No.12612555

You don’t

Everyone is living with their parents ever since homes became investments and not places to live

>> No.12612706

$12 an hour herr. I get 2 $700 paychecks a month. One covers all expenses and the other is for whatever I want.

It's rough though. It only works because my gf and I live together. Could not survive on my own with this pay, especially since I'll be turning 26 in a few months and I'll have to handle all my own insurance.

>> No.12612908

>>12612152
>"learn to code"
ONLY being able to code often means shit, even if you are good at it. Not only is coding often outsourced, it is hard to learn and without a degree in this field, you often hit a glass ceiling after a couple of years doing it. Also, many people with a degree in math, physics etc. compete for the same positions.

But being able to code "a bit" while pursuing different fields yield enormous benefits. I have a degree in finance & controlling and automate many tasks in the company I work in with VBA and scripts in AutoIt. Or handle the financial data in a OLAP-cube in fucking Access (migrated everything on a SQL server in November).

A full blown developer would laugh at the simplicity of the code I write, but would absolutely know shit about what the handled data mean, so he could not reproduce it without someone guiding him. A pure finance-graduate on the other hand would know how to handle the data, but would need hours or even days to get to the same result.

So yes, coding is a skill you absolutely want.

>> No.12612923

>>12611002
I don't get it. I'd rather not work at all and just live in the streets than go wageslave 37.5 hours with zero benefits, make 360 dollars and have 40% of it taken away in various fees and taxes. Litearlly bring home 200 dollars after working 40 hours (plus time spent getting ready, plus thinking about work, plus driving to work). Gross, would rather die.

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>tfw $15/hr

>> No.12612974

>>12612923
>with zero benefits
Good job showing you don't know what the fuck you're on about.

>> No.12613058

>his family didn't grandfather him into the family business at age 19

If you only knew how bad things really are

>> No.12613119

>>12612908
What do you recommend to learn besides Python/C/SQL. Is VBA a waste of time, since the applications are limited?

>> No.12613166

>>12612974
What benefits does someone being paid 9 dollars an hour get?

>> No.12613179

>>12611102

She was already dead inside Anon

>> No.12614050

>>12611182
>$18,000 a year and minimum experience of 5 years web development experience
>they want literally every semi-useful skill under the sun
I'm fucking dying. I wouldn't take a shit for less than $9/hour, and they're offering the fucking OH minimum wage for web dev work. Phenomenal.

>> No.12614113

>>12611382
if parents are cool with it why not?

inb4 give entire paycheck to some douchebag landlord cuz “muh independence”

>> No.12614120

>>12611960
its not the companies fault. its yours. you should be grateful they pay you at all. you can make more money sucking dick

>> No.12614128

>web dev jobs paying $9 an hour

What the fuck is this real life? Why dont you just freelance?

>> No.12614129

>>12612024
contact a headhunter if you have experience

>> No.12614142

>>12614128
Already do. Making that baller ass $13 per hour

>> No.12614149

>>12613119
VBA and SQL are basically the most useful among those you listet, if you work in a non-development-enviroment. VBA works on every pc with office installed and Access with SQL is enough to handle a surprisingly huge amount of data.

Combine both and you easily can do the work of several people in the fraction of a time, after some time. It however takes a bit of time to ramp up, if you are new to this.

>> No.12614155

Government assistance. It keeps people from rioting.

>> No.12614169

I earn 3 eur for 1 hour u fucking spoiled gay faggot

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12614812

Blame the globalists. This wasnt an accident, the poorer you are, the easier it is to control you.

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>>12611002
>>12611017
>>12611960
>>12612706
>>12612925
>>12614142
>MFW see all these poorfags and I'm making $25.50 h/r

>> No.12614946

>>12614887
Right there with you bud.

Serving Tables to Blockchain Development. Best change of my life.

>> No.12614949

>>12614887
Die

>> No.12614997

>>12614887
>I'm making $25.50 h/r
i wouldn't work for that. make about $130/hr right now, thinking about quitting tho.

>>12614149
this guy gets it.

>> No.12615028

>paid off mortgage
>use parents car, because they have a spare one
>hacked the RFID of the parking, so free parking

Only paying food, so i still save 1k every month at 9/hour

>> No.12615056

>>12611002
Ppl taking min jobs are either retired or don’t have any expenses like 17 yo kid living at home workin McJob. Honestly there should be no minimum wage at all. The market should be free.

>> No.12615081

>>12614128
I get paid 29 AUD (21 US) for web shit. How

>> No.12615490

I get 10$/hr and trust me you can live like a king in my country.