Anyone here have a job paying over $20/hr? How is that even possible?

>>39524748
>18 dollars an hour as a programmer
did you even get a fucking degree?

It's easy for normals. A neurotypical can fit into any social environment and advance. If someone's neurotypical, not disabled, and poor for more than a few years it shows me they made really bad choices.

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>>39524748
Do you have a degree OP? I'm a last year CS student & my internship this summer paid $20/hr. But most of my friends were getting more than that, one got $39/hr in San Francisco, others were getting like 35-45-50 or so

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>>39524748
i make 22 as a postal worker in the united staes

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>>39524748
I'm 22 and make $29 an hour plus commission

>>39525691
Not OP and how did you get payed for an internship? Doesn't that defeat the point of being an intern?

>>39524748
make $26 as an electrician/apprentice could be better could be worse. I regret not getting a bachelors degree but it probably doesnt matter as I didnt really have the motivation for STEM

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>>39525876
You only have unpaid internships in politics, maybe some business ones. The interns do the same work as everybody else, just get paid less for it, for the most part anyway, coffee gophers are a thing of the past.

>>39524748
20yr old reporting in
18.75 an hour
board of ed work is ok

tfw everyone looks up to you and doesn't know you're fucking out of your mind

>>39525899
You did that with a trade program?

I'm salaried, but if I work it out to hours I make just above $56 an hour

>>39525996
yea, non union. Could be doing better than that but I took a detour. If I can get one more certification I can get up to 40 possibly

>>39524748
?? Im graduating with a CS degree next Spring and i already have an offer for 60k and extensive benefits for when after i graduate

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>>39524748
>know of an uncle who got a job paying $28/hr where he sprayed down vats for 4 hours and the other 4 he sat around in some break room
>he had no high school education and managed to get the job because he knew someone there
>the uncle actually quit the job because "it is the hardest work you will ever do"
>in reality, he was just addicted to heroin and didn't want to fail the drug test
>mfw I am struggling to get a job above $20/hr when I have a bachelors in business and don't know anyone beyond fags on r9k

I make $21-$23 dollars an hour depending on which job I'm working. Unfortunately I have a seasonal position so I only work ~6 months out of the year. That's an alright pay, but the cost of living in Massachusetts is retarded.

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>>39524748
it's okay anon. life isn't fair. i think about all the people who make anime making way less than me and it makes me sad because they're the ones who create the only thing i enjoy in life ;_;
>30, $25/hr (probably a lot less thanks to overtime and being a salaried cuck)

>>39524774
>>39524748
Damn OP where do you live? I make 15.30 as a thrift shop cashier!

>>39524748

Nice bait OP.
Really instructive seeing all the normies crawl over each other in a lemming-like rush to post about how they make more than you.

>>39526143
>cost of living in ma

LOL

I'm a Merchandiser and I make $22/h

>>39525691
>San Francisco
but why live there if it's so expensive

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>$20CAD/hr
>helpdesk monkey

I'm back on days I'm going to kill myself

>>39524748
Nigger if you're a programmer and not making at least 100k you fucked up

I'm a server/waiter at a restaurant and I can make $20/hr if I'm feeling up to it.

>>39526810
programmer here, make less than op

20 and pull 75k/ a year what the fuck are you doing OP?

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>>39526873

Pajeets don't count

i make 20/hr doing data entry in a government office

>>39526969
I live in US actually, I'm American.

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>>39526143
>>39526352
>>39526836
Why the fuck do you all have basic jobs yet making over $20/hr? Where the fuck do you live!?

I make $13/hr working at a warehouse, and I consider that a lot.

>>39527064
To be fair, I can only really make $20/hr on the weekend. During the weekday it's close to $14/hr. Live in the midwest btw

>>39524748
That's a shit tier salary for a programmer unless you didn't go to college, my salary a year out equates to $35 an hour at a non-Seattle/SF based company

>>39524748
$18.85 with no education or training whatsoever kek
Universtycucks kys

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>finished my bullshit gender studies degree
>immediately turned around and got a job as a prof at the same uni
>get paid $27/hr to tell kids that cis men are evil

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>>39524748
Holy fuck this thread makes me want to suicide.
>20yrs old
>$8 an hour as a Jimmy Johns sandwich slave
HELP

>>39524748
I have a few programmer friends. They all make between 22-28 an hour, in New England and the Southwest.

I'm really good at masturbating to hentai, shitposting, and watching anime. How do I make money off of this?

>>39527460
Put on girl clothes and sign up for Chaturbate.

>>39527460
>How do I make money off of this?
Are you a girl?

>>39524748
>tfw making negative money an hour as a studycuck through federal loans
t-t-t-t-thanks m-mom

>signed up for those coding bootcamps twice
>one of them cost $3500
>never showed up to either
help

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>>39524748
The real deal is how much money you actually receive at payday.
>990 / 2 weeks
>IT Support

>>39524748
I make ~$60/hour, AMA.

I'm a programmer on the east coast.

Smoking weed right now so I might be slow to respond.

I make $30 an hour as a Junior product manager for a Finance company, should be close to $40 when I get promoted in a few mo ths. Are people still falling for the STEM meme?

52 an hour, literally do a job so easy a child slave could do it. No qualifications and no experience. U mad

>>39524748
22 MechE/EE making ~$35/hr at design firm

OP are you working for an onshore outsourcing company too? Cause I make 17.50/h as a programmer, but they trained me from scratch and put me on a 2 year contract after I passed the training course so I have to work for them at this low wage until then so they can recoup their cost of training me. But I had no experience or degree, they were willing to take me despite that and mold me into a programmer. I was happy for the opportunity.

I guess it sucks if you actually went to school to learn programming, but if that's the case not sure why you'd enroll in a program like this.

>>39527794
How do I make money with programming I don't think I can learn it I'd rather do business or something but I can't be poor anymore

>>39524748
$25/hour as a Comp Tech. You're just not doing your fucking due diligence.

>>39527794
Question 1: is K&R really a good way to learn? Been working through it and all but idk, the way they wrote code back then is so weird

>>39527951
Get a business degree and become a BA (Business analyst). Helps if you have familiarity with programming.

Salary around ~45k starting.

>>39528001
>K&R
what is this?

>>39527951
You need experience to get anywhere. You can get in at very low levels that pay less than $20/hour but until you rack up the necessary experience nobody will trust you with any real responsibility and you'll be at the entry level code monkey level making shit for money. But with like 2-3 years of experience? Man the fuckin world is your oyster. There is such a huge shortage of labor in the tech industry. There is SO MUCH shit that needs to be done and not nearly enough people to do it. Once you hit the magical 2 year mark you don't have to look for job offers anymore, the work comes to you.

>>39528002
>Salary around ~45k starting
thats like walmart wages man cmon you cant be seriously

>>39528024

Not him but its a book by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie on "The C Programming Language."

>>39528056
Yeah but how the fuck do you learn it in the first place? What's a good thing to do that's less complicated than programming shit?

>>39528166
Walmart wage is more like ~22k youngster.

Do you work?

>>39524748
30/hr as a night-shift psych nurse. There is a lot of bullshit to deal with, but night shift is an eternal excuse not to do social things

>>39524748
>this thread
Is this what wagies do, compare numbers and divide amongst each other based on these numbers even though Mr. Goldberg controls it all?

Pathetic.

>>39528218
Literally just (((google))) it and teach yourself.
Don't worry about classes or those "boot camp" scams; if you can't teach yourself to be a programmer, you'll never be a good programmer anyways.

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>>39528024
I thought ALL programmers knew of K&R. The most sacred of texts.

Question 2: how large is the leap from recreational/hobby programming to actually getting paid for it? How many LOC do you write a day? How difficult would you say your work is? What is the average problem you solve like? Do you do any complex programming, or is it just a bunch of simple tasks? When you work on large projects, how much of the overall program do you actually understand?

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>>39528224
I'm more in touch with reality than you faggot

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>27 years old
>still never had a job
I don't think I could handle being answerable to somebody

>>39528001
Read C Programming a Modern Approach by KIng

>>39528293
>assistant manager
Not even him but come on anon, you're clearly out of touch if you think the average "sales associate" or whatever they call them at Walmart makes anything close to that

>>39527313
Do u have a car anon? Being a delivery driver gets you a lot more money for lunch shifts

That being said I also hate my job and may quit at any time

>>39528267
How do you make all that with no degeee

>>39528237
i'm in the pn program at my school. Is pysch nurse rn?

>>39528293
>>39528337
This guy gets it.

Also BA with 5 years experience, 85k.

>tfw make $10 an hour as a overnight stocker for Target
>come home sore from pulling heavy ass pallets and sweaty from walking around the store every night
>only perk to the job is being able to listen to podcasts while i work

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>>39528340
No car, lived in relative poverty most of my life, never driven a car ever. I've been learning programming but it's going to be quite some time before that's profitable. Tried getting into college as well but some bad luck and bad timing and a mistake when doing my financial aid destroyed that for now, all my classes got dropped at the cut-off date and it's too late to register. So hard trying to move forward with no real support. The real fucked part is my parents are living in luxury and constantly traveling the world on exotic vacations. Fuck.

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>>39524748
>work shitty $11.25/hr job as bank teller
>blow weeks paycheck at the casino

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i make $25.50 an hour as a cashier in a bin/shelving store with no previous retail experience
i'm also a high school dropout

>>39527313
Can you do manual labor?

>>39528570
Dude be a driver. Podcasts all day. Ciggies. Fat cash

>>39528740
Probably. I'm healthy and young but I'm not exactly strong, I weigh 140lbs and I'm 6'0.

>>39528804
Go be a helper. Even 10$ an hour is good so you'll def get the job and you can learn something you can do well to make money.

>>39528804
>>39528823
A helper in a trade like drywall or plumbing. A set of hands is well worth 10 an hour and after a few months (or years) you'll be able to pull 15 if you pay attention

ITT: gotta impress my fellow robots to convince myself I'm not a failure! Better make up some bullshit about a job and lots of money per hour!

>>39525691
>I'm a last year CS student & my internship this summer paid $20/hr. But most of my friends were getting more than that, one got $39/hr in San Francisco, others were getting like 35-45-50 or so
im guessing you're near san fransisco or something to justify these high wages, btw sanfran is a horrible place to live

>>39525899
>>39526086
Getting a non-STEM degree was a mistake, I should have gone to trade school for literally anything. I have a bachelors degree in history and currently work at a hotel making $11 an hour. Please kill me.

I'm a corporate lawyer, I make $200k/yr. it's alright but it's not as great as you guys probably think.

Wtf, I make 23 and hour starting as a utility engineer.

Talking about pure numbers is kind of meaningless without knowing your living expenses. Most decent graduate jobs here start around 27k-30k a year, I've never met anybody under 30 who earns more than 70k.

>>39528925
I don't know how much work your job actually is but I always figured that a job with less hours but a decent salary was way better than six figures and ungodly hours.

>>39528615
Call up mommy tell her you love her and want milkies and to travel with them

>>39528924
You deserve this. Why the fuck would you get a degree in history? On the alternative, there are literally billions of history majors out there with jobs right now. Stop making excuses.

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>>39524748
hahahahahah what did you losers study in school. tfw $250k a year working as a Java developer. haha poor fags.

>>39529022
Yeah I bill maybe 55 hours/week on average so I'm at the office a bit longer than that. After tax I make $10k/month ($15k before tax) plus a $20k bonus this year. Don't know how that adds up.

>>39529122
but are you a virgin? because money isn't real it's just another jewish trick. it would be a shame if you worked so hard for this position in life and you were still a loser virgin, right?

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>>39528881
Nope, Texas actually. All the guys who went to San Fran got noticeably higher but not enough to make up for the COL

I make $7.25 an hour as a ferris wheel operator.

>>39529122
who would pay that kind of money for a java developer when pajeet will do it for tablescraps?

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>>39529022

I make about 57K per year but I would take my job over working all the fucking time for 200K. I work from home and I only actually work 2-3 hours each shift so I have tons of time to do other stuff. I'm in a low cost of living state plus no kids or women so my money goes pretty far. I live comfortably, I have time to do things I want to do, I don't have to go into the office and deal with normies and my job doesn't make me want to kill myself. I'm pretty happy about my work situation tbqhwyf.

>>39528925
>tfw state attorney earning 1/3rd of that
Should be senior counsel next year at least so no more litigating losing cases on behalf of stubborn client agencies

>>39529277
Can't relate, I'll never set foot in a courtroom,

>>39528924
>get a bachelors that's dog shit without going to grad school
>third year running that I didn't get in
>I can almost hear the sound of snickering emanating from the closet I'm hiding my degree in every once in a while

Just about done.

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$100+/hr playing online poker. come at me bros
attached is 2016 graph

>>39529407
Why are you being rejected so much? I had an absolutely dog shit GPA and I got into decent grad school by virtue of having one or two good grades.

>>39528925
I always thought attorney work would be good for an argumentative hole-poking dipshit like me, mind elaborating?

>>39529472
don't worry bro you'll lose it all soon enough

>>39529475
It became the spicy meme field that everyone suddenly wanted and the hot potato exploded in my hands. Too many applicants for my abysmal GPA.

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>>39529535
damn havent heard that one before, lawl

>>39528925
If srs, what is your lifestyle like?

>>39529568
plo or nl

>>39529512
>argumentative

"You'd make a great lawyer you're so argumentative" is a silly meme that parents and teachers who don't know anything other than Law and Prder tell their fedora tier le rational skeptic type kids (I know, I was one). Practice has little to do with that skill set. It's just paperwork, at least for me. You can't be stupid, contracts can get complex, but you don't have to be Socrates and the types that think they are are cringeworthy and just become professors for half my salary.

>>39529611
NL, mostly 6max

>>39529607
I like in an expensive neighborhood in an expensive city because it's close to work paying $2.2k/mo for my apartment and $2k/mo to my expensive student loans. No gf. Fat bc I have no issue ordering $40/night in take out. Saving a few k a month too. It's nice not to have to worry about money and working 60 hours/week gets me out of the house. Otherwise I just come home and shitpost alone, we aren't that different you and me.

>>39529645
You play 5/10 right?

Geez man. I make $20/hr splitting firewood as a high school summer job.

>>39529706
the graph is everything 1/2 to 25/50, depending on where I get action. my avg stake over the past ~5 years is about between 2/4 and 3/6

>>39529715
Most guys here would never consider any job that's not at a desk or behind a counter.

>>39529732
I'd do literally just about anything of it means I'm paid a high salary.

>>39529727
nice man
Do you think PS is screwing itself over with all this new shit?

>>39524748
Is producing music worth it? It's the only skill or field of study I pay attention to

>>39529764
I don't keep up with stars much anymore... used to grind 1/2 and 2/5 zoom a ton 2012-2014 but in recent years have just been bumhunting on obscure sites. Much easier games out there if you know where to go looking

It does seem like they are skinning the sheep now as opposed to just shearing (as they did under the former management.) Games are just getting absurdly difficult on there and the regs can only take so many rake hikes and rakeback cuts. I'd imagine the company will implode within a few years if current trends continue

$13 an hour as a pharmacy tech. They trained me and gave me a tech license after training. Pretty slow on most days and the pharmacist/boss is pretty much afk in the back so i pop benzos and play hearthstone on the front computer

>>39524748

The responses in this thread are weird. Most jobs really don't pay much nowadays. Everything I see on job boards is 40k tops, and yes that's including STEM and programming. Every market is saturated with poor fucks desperate to get a job. Unless you're lucky or going in to be a wall street shark, nothing is going to give good pay. "In this economy?!" Is a running joke but for real, this economy right now is still fucked up from 2008

>>39529715
i would do it for 8$ a hour and im 24 who the fuck pays that much for a job any kid, mexican or excon can do

>>39529863
Tee old untracked euro sites lol

Reminder that you can't be a robot unless you're a neet or a wageslave making minimum wage. You need to go back.

>>39529888
this is definitely not true inside the tech bubble where $100k is seen as low end pay for all but junior level developers

>>39529939
this. all these well off faggots need to stop bitching.

>wagie threads are filled with richfags bragging about their high salaries
>neet threads are comfy neets on bux
Being a minimum wagefag on this board is suffering and a constant reminder of your failure.

>junior accountant
>make roughly 20 a hr (get 40-44k salary, works out the same)
>my life is litterally just work and study for CPA
>all my money just goes to rent, food and bills
>able to save like 100 bucks a month
>tfw look at all my friends working retail and still living at home

Its not all that bad

>>39524748
I make maybe 35 dollars an hours on average.
Unskilled labor. This is in Europe, blue collar job,

>>39529888
People who are well-paid are hunted/have connections. Even so most who claim to be well-paid on this site tend to be
>undergrads who haven't actually got a job and are just projecting a delusion about how much they'll make when they graduate
>people who didn't go to college trying to goad people who do

>>39530040
lot of wagies are just lying because they conflate salary with personal value, to say you feel its worth it to dedicate your time to a low-wage job is seen as an admission of low worth - and thus the NEETs were right

>>39530096
>undergrads who haven't actually got a job and are just projecting a delusion about how much they'll make when they graduate

I also think that these threads attract people with decent income.
Often feels good to brag, even anonymously.

>>39529568
How did you get started was it mostly for fun or the money? Are you one of those super talented autistic guys with one really special skill

>>39527752
My take home after taxes is right at 3k every two weeks. I also do IT.

>>39530142
I would never work for anything less than 25 an hour. Just isn't worth my time.

Also, I assume everyone here states income before taxes?

In any trade you can just walk up to the manager and give him a firm handshake to get at least $50/hour on the spot.

>>39530155
Considering the demographics of the board, undergrads is more likely

>>39530302
Yeah, probably. People get fooled by unions and organisations, thinking they will get the "recommended wage" right out of the gate.

>>39528881
Why do you think SF is a horrible place to live other than the high prices? I briefly lived there and it wasn't so bad.

>>39530168
I planned on making money at it from the start. It can feel monotonous at times, but when you focus on how complex every decision you have to make is, it helps to keep it interesting at a minimum

Def autistic but thats not to say I didn't put in the study time to reach the level I have. I spend a good amount of my free time on poker related shit. WRT only having one talent, I don't think thats the case. As a kid I deep into competitive chess and did fairly well at that also

>>39524748
I make $21.50/hr with a Poli. Sci degree as a govt GS-7

>>39527249
Tell me more about cis men anon, give me some contacts I'm curious

>>39524748
AU$60-90/hour tutoring chinks and pajeets.
No degree (yet), no training, just good highschool marks and the ability to sell my business.

>>39528279
on a project everything should be documented so that even a fucking retard (aka your boss) can understand it

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>>39530494
>not making it so that what only you can maintain your code, ensuring perpetual job security

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I used my autism for good and googled before going to college. Fresh out of the 2 year program and making $31/hr. Only a year left and I'll also have my bachelors because I chose useful electives. Every autist picks computers or engineering. Do something Healthcare related and you'll get more money. Getting a masters degree will mean $160k/yr. I hate my job but love my money. But remember, no talkie before coffee.

>>39524748
Im 24 and make mininum wage which is 8 dollars an hour. Which is weird because I did well in high school and I'm pretty smart. Guess I wasnt cut out for this capitalism bullshit.

What should I do if I failed highschool in Australia?

Tried to get a job at a meat packing place and failed. Currently doing pamphlet distribution.

I also do amplifier repair but demand currently far too small to be able to dedicate more than a few hours a week to it.

>>39530567
What the fuck did you go for

>>39530616
Nurse. I was lucky to get an ICU position straight out of school though. I heard some classmates were only able to land a spot at nursing home or physical rehab type places. My dream is to become anesthetitist because same shitty hours but nearly triple the salary.

I'm 24 and making $33/hr as an electrician plus insurance and pension

>>39530055
It's pretty bad. Why even go through some studying some boring subject like accounting if you're just going to end up living in the office and not really enjoying the fruits of your labor? I much rather live at home, work in retail, and be able to spend my money on some fun things than have a respectable job, be moved out, and have no money left over after paying for the basics.

I considered going back to school for accounting (I have a BA in political science), but why bother when it seems like the field is saturated and the wages are low? Why even bother if I'm going to have to grind away until I'm 50 to make any decent money?

What good is money when you're an old fuck and too broken down to enjoy anything anymore? I want to drive the Porsche now. Where's the fun in driving a high performance vehicle when your eye hand coordination and reaction time are shot? How good is fucking some gold digging bitch when you're 50, you've got a fat pot belly, an atrophied ass from sitting all day, and a penis that needs pills to work right? There's probably no point in fucking hot women after you turn 40.

>>39525691
I dropped out of CS because I thought it was bad for jobs... way too theoretical. I'm doing software Engineering now.

>>39530527
id rather do a good job and get promoted

>>39530857
well if you knew anything about the CPA process its basically 2 years of suffering/being a office slave and then once you get designated you can fuck off and go get a industry job and live a cushy life. Enjoy living at home forever

>>39524748
My salary comes out to about $70/hour and I'm a self-taught front-end engineer in San Francisco.

Sounds like you got screwed, OP.

>>39524748
Kek I'm an instructor for certificates 3&4 and earn $65 an hour so.... sucks to be you OP

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>>39531040
Well, it's a hell of a lot better than most other options, but at least where I go to school, it's anything but theoretical. That stuff does show up more in grad school. Although our CS department sucks ass so SE is just a specialization under CS. It won't matter either way after 4 years of work anyhow.

>>39531072
My uncle is a CPA.

He is doing OK, but he is a pretty Chad, got out of school sometime in the mid to late 90s, and he also has an MBA from a very respectable public university.

His basic bitch wife still divorced him, left him with the kids, and she ran off with some rich dude.

There's no way I'd be able to achieve even half of what he did simply because I am not a Chad.

>>39530609
Government assisted certificate 3 in what ever they are offering.

>>39531073
What the fuck do you like an autistic ability or something

>>39526086
What did you go for? Electrical shit?

>>39530762
>Nurse. I was lucky to get an ICU position straight out of school though. I heard some classmates were only able to land a spot at nursing home or physical rehab type places. My dream is to become anesthetitist because same shitty hours but nearly triple the salary.


I could never do medical work. My old man is a doctor, and the hours are shit. I don't think I could ever go to school for that long just to hate my work. Also he does pediatric oncology and meeting the families of some of his patients just made me never want to do that. I don want my PhD though, so whenever he brings up his doctorates in an argument I can throw that shit right back at him

>>39532096
*do want my PhD

>>39527828
What is it please tell me I need money

Yes, but barely. Work as an engineering analyst looking at surveying/bathymetry data.

I negotiated a shit salary out of college as I was kind of desperate. I had job offers to go work for other companies as a project engineer (construction), but really didn't want to continue working in that field too much. That was for far more, and I had a lot of experience and contacts (due to working summers as a laborer and later an intern) to pay for school. Never applied for other internships as naively thought if my job application was rejected I'd get thrown on some company blacklist or some shit.

Had no idea what to expect with only a physics bachelors, and I can't really afford or get into a decent grad school. Honestly made more as a laborer with overtime, but I worked far more. Would rather be doing field work though.

>>39529673
Why don't you buy a place instead of paying rent to someone else like a cuck?

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Average wage in my country is $8.49/hr.

Or if you happen to graduate Uni and get a well-paying job as a programmer, it is $17/hr.

>making 7.25
>22
I am thinking of suicide at any moment when my parents find out I'm not actually going to uni anymore.

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>there are other robot sparkies

I'm glad to know I didn't make a mistake picking up a trade after high school. I didn't really want to go to college and would have no idea to know what I would want to study. Only make 19/hr though, still apprentice.

>>39532038
No, I had the right friends. It's why /r9k/ struggles with everything - if you want to do something, a great first step is to become close with someone who has already done it.

You programmers make bank. Where can I start if I want to do that?

>>39533243
My guess would be youtubing programming

>>39532096
>doing a PhD for vanity

Imagine my shock

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Am I stupid for producing music? I can't do any computer or math shit wtf do I do

>>39527064
It's called "cost of living".

When it is $6,000 a month for a shitty one bedroom apartment, most local workplaces will have adjusted prices to match. Especially in a place like the consumerist hell hole known as California

>>39527794
Lel weed is, like, so totally for stupid people. Didn't you ever see reefer madness? /s

I'm a forest manager and GIS Specialist and here in the UK I'm paid 18.75GBP (can't post pound sign) per hour which is apparently equivalent to $24.24. I also get paid to drive out to plantation sites which is nice. Usually make 50GBP / $61.64 just for driving. Life is very comfortable and I spend all day in nature.

>>39533840
What are the qualifications for that job? I have no education but that would be fun.

>>39524748
I make $90k at 24 in Texas in a software position.

Not a robot though, just dropping in to see if this place is as degenerate as it sounds.

>>39533917
Forest patrol is harder to do than police they're heavily armed and have more power then other agencies because they deal with people with guns

>>39533917
Well I have a BA Hons in Forestry and Conservstion w/ a chainsaw licence (so I can legally fell trees if necessary) plus my driver's license. It is comfy but you have to bear in mind that I'm spending most of my days amongst sitka spruce plantations which are not at all like regular forests. Mostly I'm walking for miles daily through cobwebs and moss and lichen measuring plots. Everyday I come back covered in fauna and if it's been raining, slime.

>>39533955
Nah I don't actually patrol the plots, I help manage the forests and measure their height x volume for eventual sale, and when in the office I arrange contractors and communicate with the shareholders.

>>39532216
Come to Australia and work in the sugar cane mill. I'll get you a job

>>39533243
Only those with degrees like CS other get half of that and no way of getting as rich without it.

>>39524748
$18 USD?????

What the fuck, is this before or after tax. I hope it is after because I am a pleb desktop support engineer in aus and make $25 before tax.

>>39524748
18$/h
8 hours per day. 720$ per week etc etc more calculations etc etc
2,335.66 USD take home pay per month. that is more than what 90% of the danish population makes after taxes.

55k + 2.5-5k bonus with 5 weeks PTO literally bossing around fresh outta HS roasties in a call center. 26 y/o with HS diploma.

I honestly just kept filling out applications for jobs I wasn't qualified for until I got one. My resume was embellished af.

>>39534609
$25 in your money is like $16 in real money.

33 us dollars a day

>>39534708
What? Why would they hire you over someone with a degree? I'm not a college cuck but I need this information.

I want to leave my shit small town for a big city should I apply for jobs all over the big city?

>>39524748
I make 0/hour as a manual laborer/ hard laborer whatever you call it picking 77kg boxes off the floor

stop complaining burgers

>>39534739
$19.95 aud after tax
$16 usd after tax

mmmm true that, but still it is shit for a programmer, on a side note though, if you do become a good one and it doesnt get outsourced to India then you can easily triple your salary.

For me I really gotta start looking into the networking side of things.

I make 22.3 / hr (+2.5 because night shift, there's also plenty of overtime). I get a yearly raise, but it will eventually cap out at 30 something per hour.

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>>39529888
In case you haven't checked this is 2017, not 2008. Economy is strongest it's been in a long time. $40k is literally the average. Considering most of us are smart but lazy types we make more than that, we can't stand the thought of being merely average in any way. You basically have to be trying in order to find a job that pays less than that if you've got a non-meme degree.

>>39524748
>18$
sweet jesus, i make around 23$ a hour working minimal hours at a hardware store.

Can you guys start specifying your degrees or training? Fuggg ;_;

>>39530142
>lying
Not once has anyone made an absurd claim like BS in math $300k starting. All responses sound very believable. NEETs are better off and I do resent my taxes going to them when they already have more free time and a better life than us. You are projecting with your bullshit about conflating salary and selfworth. It doesn't matter how much my job pays, if I didn't need the money I wouldn't do it for even one hour a year. I work for the money and no other reason at all.

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>>39534825

Here's your ((You)). Go away.

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>>39534890
Did I strike a nerve? You want to pretend it's the very strong economy's fault you can't find work when they truth is you just suck. Companies everywhere are desperate, even paying sign-on bonuses, student loan payback, and moving assistance. Somehow you still think the economy is to blame. Have you tried applying for positions besides burger flipper and shelf stocker? Even if you don't have skills go sign on with a trucking company, they will pay you to take an 8 week course to get your CDL. If you aren't cut out for getting a degree or drivers license there are still blue collar options. Companies will pay you for on the job training to be a pipefitter, oil-man, deputy, water treatment technician, etc.. Jobs that pay above average are everywhere and the requirements are very low. There are more jobs than there are workers. It's as simple as walking up and accepting one.