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Recently got a job in retail Loss Prevention. Pays well in comparison to most local competitors, just over 30k starting, and okay benefits. I was wondering where else I could go with this, but I don't think I want to move on to retail management at this point. Do security officers make decent money in other industries? What are my options here?

>> No.28618114

im so sorry

>> No.28618305

>>28618114
Me too, bro. I feel like I'm fucked but, at least I can scrape by now.

>> No.28618916

>>28617885
There is no future for you in this unless you are happy with a low standard of living and don't aspire to any position with prestige. At best you can try to manage branch of your company but this will be stressful trying to staff posts and hardly worth the compensation. At my highest point I was making $18/hr as a guard, $25/hr supervisor, and $60k salary as a branch manager for a big name in a major city. We had huge name contracts and they were a massive pain in the ass to try to accommodate. Keep in mind I was one of hundreds of people that got to fill those higher roles, so it can be hard hard get there unless you are fantastic with people. A lot of it was from talking to and getting along with my contacts who worked at companies like Amazon and Dianey where we had contracts. They started to invite me to meetings and then specifically requested that my employing company place me in a the positions I got to. Not many people would have thay success and even then it was not much of a success

>> No.28619009

>>28618916
*I was the only one of hundreds of people to fill those roles* was what I meant to say. Only a very rare person gets anywhere with this shit.

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>>28618916
$60k? Interns right out of college (or some drop outs that decided to just skip the degree and start working) in low cost of living areas like Texas and Ohio make more than that.

I don't understand people who are in their 30s and make less than $100k. It's just bad life decisions.

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>>28619580

To follow up on this, a company I was working for was hiring manual software testers for $20 an hour, no experience needed, you just followed the scripts and reported bugs.

Starting salary for people with 2 year community college degrees working 20 hours a week from home doing JavaScript coding and some SQL? $70k. We had one guy literally working from inawoods and another that was basically a neet living with his mom, both making $90k+.

I'm at a different company now, 7 years experience getting paid $180k + benefits as a team lead. My rent is $800 a month, and I have $1.5m in ethereum. I dropped out of college, fyi.

I don't understand why poor people choose to be poor.

>> No.28620298

So you're saying, learn JS?

>> No.28620466

>>28620078

a lot of it is confidence. i'm self taught and had created a package with 200-400 weekly downloads on npm but was unemployed for nearly two years. i'd send out a few resumes, hear nothing back and get discouraged. i got a few technical interviews but panicked during the interview and was unable to focus, mind just went blank. meanwhile i've seen webdev bootcampers lie their way into 6 figure jobs.

currently making less than six figures at a FAANG as a contract worker. still way better than what my parents had and i was born into.

>> No.28621018

>>28620078
i would literally rather remain in poverty than become a techno dorkoloid.