tons of local jobs in my area try their best to underpay, some do some work arounds to pay less than minimum and they still struggle so yes the inherent idea of he title is true
tons of local jobs in my area try their best to underpay, some do some work arounds to pay less than minimum and they still struggle so yes the inherent idea of he title is true
then you should have done it when you were 18 not when you were 27 .. stop partying and get education .. find a way anyone can do it ... move to someplace low cost ... there are many ways rather than "I work 2 jobs and have no time" its upto YOU to better yourself .. its not my job to better you.
If your over 22 and get paid minimum wage you failed at life and wasted the last 6 years of your life.
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If you are 25 and have no life skills you failed in life and have lost. It is your fault not everyone else and your worth what your worth.
A bus ticket and move would be all that is required .. if your so poor you have no shit .. go couch surf for a few weeks .. or go back to school.
Get a loan .. go to community collage rather than Yale .. In Arizona the Maricopa community colleges cost about $86 per credit hour and Arizona can be a low cost of living state. This means if you take a full time course load of 15 credit hours it costs about $2000 per semester including books and you can get a shared apartment for about $350-400 a month. A student loan PLUS a part time job and school may not be easy bit its doable for EVERYONE but no .. you want it handed to you ... just give it for free fuck actually working for what you want.
This is misleading. What exactly is the "rent rate" they are quoting? I mean a one bedroom home, where do those exist? I could see a one bedroom apartment but not a house. Also, if they apply a general rate to the entire nation, it will screw with the results. I mean, a home in California will certainly cost more then one in Montana, so if applied evenly will make some states fair far worse then others.
Minimum wage sucks, I get it, but this chart is deceptive. IN addition, most of the states offer higher minimum wage then federal yet they still list the hours needed to work in federal law not state. Its designed to elicit a reaction.
Ah, Annamarine, spouting the typical talking points of someone who thinks talking down to people is an actual solution to a problem. Blaming people for their problems -- regardless of the root cause -- isn't going to help anything. When the majority of the population is struggling, that eventually becomes a problem for society as a whole whether you like it -- or whether it fits your favorite narrative -- or not. Telling millions of people, "well, you screwed up, too bad" doesn't make them go away.
School is actually very easy to get funding for, with next to zero and in most cases zero money out of pocket. Dont get me wrong you will have to pay for it later, but getting the initial funding is stupidly easy. It requires effort and for people to stop feeling sorry for themselves however, which many dont want to do, they simply want to bitch and moan about how unfair the system is.
Everyone can get government student loans what are you smoking?
If you get a actual degree that is worth something .. preferable in a STEM program you will find a far better job than working for Mcdonalds for $9.50 a hour.
Its not supposed to be easy but it is doable. Just standing around whining about how its not fair will do absolutely nothing for you. Going and obtaining marketable skills will.
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Or construction .. hard manual labour sure but its good paying work.
So your solution is to just hand people money and hope for the best? For craps sack man/women/thing, this world isn't designed to give people everything they need. There is nothing wrong with starting at a community college and then moving onto a university. People do it ALL the time and in fact many large universities even encourage it. ASU has an entire pathway program for the counties community colleges. In addition, not all skills require a bachleors degree. Go become a technician in the medical field, learn to draw blood, learn to weld, work on engines etc. There are so many paths to take, sadly they all require some sacrifice, hard work and time. If being poor is so fucking bad, I would take any of this over being poor any longer. Yes, going into debt in the future to get out of the hells cape that is being poor is a great option.
Hell in Arizona becoming a LPN or a RN takes 1-2 years of school and pay 15-30 or more a hour to start and there are tons of jobs there and its growing.
Heck a quick search shows thousands of jobs in Arizona alone for a RN (2 years of education plus a certification test) for 75k +
Yeah I wouldn't suggest a STEM degree is right for everyone, but there are other options, most still way better then working for minimum wage at McD's. Its OK to not be a rich person, just ask the dem's. Not everyone needs to be lawyer, scientist or doctor. The trades are a valuable source of income if people would just learn them.