That or gut out the things you can technically live without. Riding a bike saves you a ton of money from not having car payments, insurance, gas bills ect. Downside is you basically can never date cause no one takes you seriously 😅
Or even if you do get scheduled 40 hours for months, you could have a job like mine where you still get no benefits because you are considered part time even though you work 40 hours a week consistently but every once in awhile will just schedule me for 32 in a week.
My experience (that is both anecdotal and limited to a single field) indicates that the employers in my field have some impressive cognitive dissonance; they want to have (and frequently enforce) as few people on a client as possible, then when *anything* happens to one of them and the client is suddenly short-staffed the employers act like there's nothing that could have been done at any point and it's now the remaining worker's jobs to pick up enough slack to keep the client from firing the company, who will then not move to fix the problem they caused. One poor girl had a 72 hour work week until she had a stroke that partially paralyzed her.
@@MarkTexasYankeethat’s actually not true at all. There’s more open jobs right now than when we were in the 2008 recession. I believe it’s something like 13 million jobs are open right now and there’s almost the same amount of unemployed people. I can’t remember the stats exactly, I just read them recently though but the crazy thing is, is now- men especially- of working age, are currently ACTIVELY not looking for work. Explain that please
@@PiXie232Is that for entry level positions or special education positions? Are employers rejecting these unemployed people due to prejudice? We can’t really be sure unless we go look at the statistics and research?
If I worked 20 hours of overtime, every week, all year long I still wouldn’t be getting 100K a year and I’m closer to $30 per hour than I am to $20. He’s delulu.
@@ferhierro8123 she hasn’t even been elected yet and shitty capitalism has been continuing under all recent presidencies, Republican or Democrat. Get your meds grandpa
😂 This generation is lazy because they're still living with their parents until they're 35+, even though they can make enough to live on their own. In my home town there are "Help Wanted" signs EVERYWHERE and yet you still meet young people living off their parents who say they "can't find a job". It's not that they "can't find a job". It's that they "don't want to find one". 🤷♀️
I heard someone say “most people are 1 emergency away from being homeless” and that sh!t has been ingrained into my brain forever. I learned not to judge anyone on the street, and to help when I can.
Exactly $100,000 a year is $50 a hour and you need skills and education to make that much 😂😂 you’re not gonna be making that at McDonald’s unless you’re the general manager or corporate
welding, machine operators and even plumbers can get six figures. also 40 hours a week should be your minimum. if one hob doesn't get you there find a second job. personally i like to do 60/70 hr/week but i dont have children yet. if you got kids its complicated cause you need more money but want to spend time with them too
@@jtostado95 I work 2 jobs. It’s ridiculous to be working so many days and hours every week to barely get by because everything is inflated and expensive. Rent is stupid. Everything is stupid.
Then don't work fast food. I see both sides of the argument, but this side of the argument is just as wrong as the other. 1.) If you don't live in a shithole state, then your problems become significantly less, and "I live in Cali, I can't afford to leave!" Is not good enough because it's a lot cheaper than people say. Damn sure cheaper than staying. 2.) If you spend that much money on a degree and then waste it by applying at Wendy's, then that's a you problem. That being said, a $20 minimum wage is crazy because all the money in the world ain't gonna stop the McDonald's worker from fucking up my order. There's no reason you should be paid $20/hr when you can barely manage $10/hr work. And for the people who are rude to the fast food worker, you're still a piece of shit, lazy worker or not. Your parents should've taught you better than that.
That number is skewed down by those who aren’t working in their degree field and those who got degrees to work in fields that don’t pay well by design and didn’t *actually* require degrees to begin with. What’s criminal is going to school, getting into debt, and then completely botching your life because you got a $120k+ piece of paper that doesn’t pay well 😂 college should be for degrees to be doctors, lawyers, nurses, teachers, etc.
Boomers… f…ing entitled… people who can’t see the world from different perspectives… how do we keep having people over 60 in position of power? And we expect them to know and decide about modern world? You want to work forever… ok, do it, but you shouldn’t be the one making decisions that affects the all company, or the society, or the State, or the world… gerontocracy is getting crazily real and all over… narcissistic white man that can’t let go of power… that’s why we are having problems in economy and politics… boomers raised the generation with most degrees in history, just to not let them lead or have a life…
Or you guys are so dumb that you expect a fast food chain to pay for you to live in your own place working at a restaurant. Those are jobs for people just getting into the workforce and getting experience, not to live on your own and support a family lmfao
Regular, working Americans are tired of getting pissed on by the rich, all while they tell us "it's raining". 😡 I would give ANYTHING to have the pay that my father made at my age, when adjusted for inflation. We're headed toward a revolution if the middle class keeps disappearing. 🤷🏼♂️
Granted I'm UK not America, but my grandma's first house was 3k, the minimum wage was £4 something, now we have 3x the minimum wage but 70x the house prices, if only I weren't so lazy I guess 😂
As long as people are debt slaves they won't do shit because all of their stuff will be taken away. And that's exactly the way it was designed. Condition people into 30 year mortgages and thinking they need an $80k SUV and they will be your bitch, so to speak.
Don't forget, a lot of apartments now want tenants to make three times the rent in income. That's a little more than $5,000 a month. They want you making that much money...to pay for a crappy studio...
I work in a hospital where I’m directly responsible for keeping people ALIVE for 12 hrs straight and I make 43 cents more than the average cook at McDonald’s
Fast food workers should not earning $20 an hour to begin with. Those jobs are meant to be had when your in college or even late high school. At $20 or if the minimum wage is raised in California to $25 these fast food places will start laying people off or they will simply charge you even more for their food
@@hunter_rabsey do you just change their sheets and bring them snacks, send them away when they still need help and are begging for it or are you actually keeping them alive?
I mean why not both. Because if you lower the cost of living, sure people seem to have more money, but it doesn't stimulate the economy nearly enough which causes inflation which raises the cost of living. But if you increase wages alone then the economy becomes more stimulated causing the cost of living to stagnate. So by doing both you effectively quadruple people's income and stop inflation entirely.
@stock_movie1875 who has to cover those wages the business who will only increase prices. You can only increase prices so much until you angry the customer then what's next? Layoffs, a decrease in product quality, decrease in health and education benefits and etc. It's a snow ball effect.
Not when you print several trillion dollars, backed by nothing. Not good, the system will snap like they designed it to. You'll see, for now do whatever you can morally to get out of any debt.
No it just shows that wages have not gone up proportionately for anyone. When I graduated college back in 2009, I was making $20/ hour. So the wages out of college have only gone up just about $4/hour in 15 years? Cost of living has gone up tremendously and we wonder why people are broke.
The notion that there's even such a thing as minimum wage is ridiculous. What was the point of even trying to escape monarchy and oligarchy?!? Just to have the same BS system take place all over again? Everyone should be middle class or above in the USA.
Wrong. In Franklin Roosevelt's Statement on the National Industrial Recovery Act June 16, 1933, he said "In my Inaugural I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By "business" I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living."
@@we8608if you're in the US, and don't like what President Franklin Roosevelt did by creating a minimum wage and saying it should be a living wage and not bare subsistence, you can leave. See his Statement on the National Industrial Recovery Act on June 16, 1933.
Basically, the government threw a bunch of money at the real estate industry so they can divide the classes up even more. Why? Because suffering is funny (to them and the real estate industry).
Or you're so dumb you don't understand what value added is.. you're also so dumb you don't understand that wages and labor are subject to the forces of supply and demand just like goods and services.. go learn a valuable skill that is rare that pays.
@@yomanthisiseli yes it does.. inflation steals the purchasing power of that $20.. Actually you can make $20 an hour to $100,000. Let's say you're self-employed or not you can play the scenario to either.. but you're self-employed producing some kind of good in service but working 16 plus our days. Building some type of product or giving a service to the general public that you're selling for a value-added of what it took to manufacture or provide it..
@@dextile98 when your nose inflation exists he's talking about artificial value added inflation.. the general public is willing to pay only so much for a fast food Burger. Your wage is determined by the customer's willingness to pay for the product.. if you get paid $15 an hour your boss needs to make $30 an hour.. because at that price they're able to sell burgers.. if you are officially demand by law by abusing your Democratic vote to give you that raise. And it's $20 an hour. You better produce $40 an hours worth of burgers. If your employer has to increase the value of those burgers to the point where the customers no longer buy them.. you no longer even have a $15 an hour job . Great job. This could also apply to you being self-employed.. customers determine your wage.
What’s sad is that not very long ago, $20/hr was actually a GOOD wage. Once upon a time renting was more economical than a mortgage, public transit was cheaper than a car, and groceries were affordable. $20/hr back in 2005 before the market crash got you a modest house, a decent used car, and you could afford childcare, especially in dual income households. 20 short years later, $20/hr there are 25 year olds still living with their parents for the foreseeable future and 35+ year olds with roommates in the larger cities. Inflation is out of control, government spending is out of control, rent is out of control, and wages are slow to keep up. 🤷♀️
Ever thought if the corporations and companies are faring worse in the inflation ? No? Just regurgitate whats told to you by politicians? LOL. The issue is the pay has not risen along with the inflation and price gouging has made companies record profits in the last couple years. All you had to do is look at the profit records published by the companies themselves to know your narrative is flawed. But why bother, just parrot
I make $23.50 an hour and my rent is only 1,400 a month and I’m not going out but I have enough to pay my bills and enjoy myself I think most people spend too much
It’s not a wage problem it’s a corporate greed problem. Go ahead and raise the minimum wage again for the 15th time. See what happens to your rent. We tried explaining this last time.
That’s why Charlie Kirk is right about College being a scam. That 23$/h includes a huge number of people that work a job they don’t need a degree at all.
Elon Musk said if you wanna make it like they do you gotta work like 90 hrs a week at each job…he has three companies so that’s what 270 hrs a week he works… 😂😂😂 yeah right he don’t work more than 20 hrs a week probably cuz he’s out enjoying his money everyone slaving away helped him get..just like the rest of the top people and the BS they spew about working…its all a smoke screen cuz if people realized that back when the industrial revolution started they figured everyone in America would only need to work at most 20hrs a week and still be living high on the hog..that was if pay kept up with production rates like they had been previously…but the owners didn’t want that..
@@ct7999I’m not an Elon fan but, he was saying this to people trying to be successful. After you are successful you can do whatever you want. Also did you forget he started PayPal? He was definitely working over 80 hours a week at the start of his career path
went to the doctors for the first time in years the other day, she told me i really need to come in more often. i told her that i will when i can afford to
💔💔💔 that’s the story with a lot of my family members, it pisses me the F off and breaks my heart all at the same time! One relative was experiencing pain on her ear, tried home remedies, but nothing worked. By the time she went to a doctor, she was told she had burst eardrum which was infected… Even more severe, my uncle had been experiencing discomfort and tingling on his limbs, and even had to pull over a few times when driving because his limbs would “fall asleep.” Turns out 3 of his major arteries were clogged, one of them was 90% clogged, and he had a heart attack! Thankfully they called an ambulance and he’s alive to tell the tale, but he almost died. They had to use a defibrillator and did 2 separate surgeries to unclog his arteries, starting with the one that was only functioning at 10%. I know not everything is preventable and even annual visits for a physical (if you’re lucky to have health insurance) doesn’t catch everything, but I do wish everyone and their mamma had access to healthcare that did not leave people bankrupt!!! This country is so messed up, y’all. Geez…
There are plenty of free medical services available for low income people, but if you notice a lot of low income people choosing to buy cigarettes and booze
@@dmitrikorobeinikov9400where I live "free medical services" are $15-20 worth of gas away, plus their hours would require me to use one of my 4 paid vacation days or take an unpaid sick day to go. So really it costs me an entire days pay plus $20. That's hard to justify for anyone who is working class/poor
He's a fox news anchor. Anybody who watches fox or votes for conservatives needs to stop complaining. This nonsense is literally because of conservatives and their boner for corporations.
@@aliceslab real humor, that 1713 average appartment rental fee... also lists the average size as 899 Yep, apparently the average apartment size in the USA now is 899 square feet. kinda explains that 1713 price tag huh.
Yeah that’s freaken insane. Tried to rent a place for $1,600 which was expensive even in a ghetto neighborhood. “Must make 3x rent, give arm maybe 2 arms and 2 legs and first months rent, last months, and last last months as well.
Unless you just crossed the border illegally and then they'll probably give you a free apartment and a credit card with about I hear up to $10,000 on it. Some have gotten cars too.
“Just stop buying avocado”, “ buy a cheap fixer upper and flip it” ass people. Our economy isn’t as bad and even I knew it’s completely clapped. Know a person who bought a “fäbod”(closest word I can find is chalet but the pics are WAY of) in a rural area, it cost more than I make in a year and that’s calculated to support one person comfortably.
If you are working at McDonald’s, it means you have no ambition and haven’t made an effort to gain a marketable skill. So, you don’t get to have your own apartment. Get a roommate and,BAM! hundreds more dollars a month to put toward other things.
They’ve been shouting for years that college is a scam. I graduated 15 years ago and I learned that when I saw how expensive text books were and how they limit your purchasing options. I dropped out of college and began trade school. I have no student debt and none of my college credits have anything to do with my success. You need to experience it for yourself to truly learn your lesson
But it shouldn’t have to be this way. We NEED college-educated citizens in our workforce. It’s so important for us to grow as a society and to grow our economy. If college becomes even more unaffordable, which it is on track to be; we will have a shortage of essential workers such as people in the medical field. What drives college costs up are the greedy 1%ers and lack of regulation from the government. These greedy 1%ers are able to pay lawmakers off so they won’t pass laws to regulate the ridiculous costs. It’s a baddddd situation we’ve got brewing.
Yep, going to a local college and spending less than 3k a year to get a certificate to work a job that starts at 80k. People need to stop signing their life away for a psychology degree
@@blaketurner4506 news flash they don’t care about the productivity of our society they just want slaves that are dumbed down and obedient hence why college is so expensive… if they truly wanted the society and this country to be productive the way this country would be running would be towards countries like Japan. They take care of the infrastructure of their country, they have productive programs in their prison systems and they have a small percentage of crime. The government here wants control of all aspects of this country, they want us to be zombies nothing more.
I don’t wanna say the people who wanted to raise the minimum wage got what they wanted. It kind of seems like they did only they didn’t understand the catch. Now even entry level college graduates are suffering from that decision when they probably deserved the increase in pay more than the minimum wage jobs. Trade guys too, none of the useless degrees people always get cause….fuck knows why. Hell, teachers need to get paid more, maybe if they did, we would have higher quality ones rather than settling for those who are left.
It's not even that they're out of touch, they just don't care. No matter how many times we explain it, break it down for them, they just don't care. And they won't until it affects them.
As a man living alone and paying for everything my self. Allow me to say. This society is not built for single people to sustain themselves. It is very difficult to cover all the bills and still eat. Welcome to life folks.. shit sucks
This is totally untrue. It all depends on where you live and how hard you work. One of my clients is a poop cleaner. Meaning he picks up dog poop on private property. Guess how much he makes doing that? Over $100k per year. Another client is a landscape artist and grass cutter. Also over $100k per year. If you have overwhelming debt, then yes, it will be hard for you. But without debt, living on a single income is totally doable. Don’t be EEYORE! There are opportunities everywhere.
It used to be built for one salary to support an entire household, but we think we’re too good to live by the living standards of our grandparents and make things harder on ourselves.
I used too make close to $20.00 an hour, after federal taxes it's under $35,000 yearly salary. It's barely enough to pay your bills and still have money left over for savings.
If you find the imaginary fast food restaurant paying employees $20/hr and clock 100 hours per week, 52 weeks a year, then you're 6 figures. edit: I forgot overtime was a thing. And yes I know up in New York or over in Los Angeles, they start you at $20 an hour or whatever, but I'm from nowhere, where they still get $10 an hour😀
You can make $20 an hour at fast food in the richest city in Washington state but you’re correct. They will never fucking schedule you 40 hours and after taxes it’s pretty brutal.
I don’t know where you’ve been at, but they are making that much doing fast food where I live at they pan them that amount somebody working fast food who make $22 an hour and they’re not even a manager, but if you add the rest of the stuff you saidand that would be true to be an imaginary but the making of $20 an hour is not imaginary it’s real
I make $20 an hour on one full time job and $10 an hour on a part time job. I'm a single mom of 1 and I WISH my grocery bill was a $100 a week lol. I'm barely surviving and I do not receive outside help. I'm also a recently diagnosed Lupus patient and I'm terrified if I have to stop working because of my health because I do not know how we will survive. All I know is I'm relying on my faith in God to see us through.
@@saversavvy2670Parents like you give us early 20s adults hope in having a house of our own one day. I thought I would be so much farther at 22 than I am. It’s a terrible feeling. I feel like I’m letting my family down not being solo on my own, but I know doing that right now would be an even worse look. Getting life started is so intimidating…
Living with my family until I graduate college is the best decision ever. My mom said as long as I’m in school she’ll never charge me rent so I don’t have any major bills, I still have my own room/own space. And I’m getting my nursing degree and saving up.
I allow my children to still live here it’s too expensive. I told them take your time and make wise decisions on your career, and save up. Once they start getting older and have families you won’t have this opportunity to save money like this and not be as care free. They will always have mine and their dads help as long as they continue to do right. Their incomes can not support them living alone and I want them out here when they’re financially stable.
That means government will own your house. You identified the problem, but you are proposing a terible solution. Corporate monopolies imposed by government regulations those same corporations lobbied for are causing blackrock to own 50% of the entire housing market therefore raising the cost of house. Not only that but they central banks have influence on the mortage rate and migrants are invading US like crazy, also driving up the cost of housing
I graduate with 2 degrees, but my college degree job only pays $19.50, not even $20 an hour and I still live like a minimum wage worker. Screw FoxNews!
You are blaming Fox News for you going to college and not getting paid more? LOL. You are so silly. You signed up for college, all that debt for a degree. You know there is better options, right? Go ahead, blame Fox News because you decided you wanted to go to college. You can’t make this shit up. You’re sad. 🤦♂️
They literally were because someone HAS to do that type of work. Someone has to work at the grocery store and stock the shelves so YOU can buy food to survive. Literally someone has to do the job so saying it's not meant to do something is a completely illogical and invalid argument
What do you mean "were never intended too" did you come up with them yourself? If nobody could support themselves with an entry level job then how were they able to survive long enough to work their way up to more standard employment?
YOU HAVE TO PAY A LIVING WAGE REGARDLESS OF WHAT KIND OF JOB IT IS. HAVING A FULL TIME JOB AND NOT BEING PAID A LIVING WAGE IS SLAVERY POINT BLANK PERIOD.
They don't care if you have enough money. Because they're good and they know this information. Their whole point is that, "We're screwing you over but you're just supposed to accept it proudly."
Nailed it. The "trickle down" crime syndicate. They lie about everything and always trying to flex over everyone using thier blatant lies always trying to show which caste is "above" and which caste is "below"
And..if you don't like it... there's 10000 people in line to take your place. I always hated when management said that. I would leave at that point, and make sure they understood I was here to help them, and actually didn't need their job. Scarce mentality to keep you in line...there is plenty of money out there...they just don't want to give it to you.
When I was 18, taking home $300 a week cooking at a restaurant, I was being paid the equivalent of 1.1 ounces of gold per week. My gross pay is now $1,250 a week which is equivalent to about a half ounce of gold. This pay is before taxes. If I was to account for taxes, I would be paid about 0.4 ounces of gold. This is inflation, this is why people can't survive with full time work. Our money is becoming worthless.
Gold and silver investing is a scam. Think about it, you can never withdraw gains from it without cutting the investment amount. Invest in other things and gains can be withdrawn without taking from the base investment amount.
CEOs are paid high wages because that’s what is agreed upon with investors or boards. Those jobs aren’t exactly easy. Most people don’t have the mental capacity to do anything remotely close to that. Hell, most people don’t even understand how taxation works.
The real problem is boosting minimum wage up 50 cents or a dollar means absolutely fuck all when the cost of EVERYTHING has gone up 200-300% in the last 5 years.
We've been fighting for 15$ minimum wage for 20 years. We should be fighting for 30$ now but most people can't fathom that. People with degrees want to shoot you down because they barely make 30$ an hour without realizing they should be making 60$.
Inflation is the result of rising minimum wage. Everything has gone up BECAUSE minimum wage is now $20/hr. Businesses now have to raise prices so they can pay their employees. Its a fucked system. And gov Newsom fucked the entire state by raising the min wage to $20
These businesses aren't running for charity. If the government forced these companies to pay their employees more, where do you think the extra money will come from?
You will never be in anything other then poverty working min wage. You could pay $100 an hour and they would still be at the bottom, the prices will just inflate to account for the increase. A can of coke would cost $10.00 and gas would be $30 a gallon. The exonomy is based on competition and min wage are the benchwarmers. They can train most anyone to do the job in a few hours. They require no skill and have min responsibility.
thank you for these numbers. I'm a boomer and was able to succeed. Why? the numbers worked for me and there were so many cheap options. Most boomers and the wealthy don't get it. The younger generations are working so hard and get very little. my heart breaks for them. This situation will not endure.
Another boomer here. Any boomers who don't get it are just as clueless as the rich idiot thinking $20/hr could be 6 figures. I say he's rich, because if he wasn't he would have a clue that $20/hr isn't anywhere near 100K/yr. Cost of housing relative to minimum wage is crazy now. Wasn't bad when I was young. Education cost is also crazy now, and most bachelor degrees don't increase earnings potential enough to pay for the loans.
Young people are working hard? Not in CA lol. I don’t even see kids outside, playing with friends, being adventurous. Kids are so lazy now, always inside playing video games. I remember when getting the whole neighborhood to play tackle football on the street was the fun thing to do. Being proud of all my cuts and bruises. Now kids dont even know the difference between a man and a woman lol. I’m only 35, but I already had a career in under welding at 19. Now I’m retired. 16 years working a job that’s ranked top 3 most dangerous in the US
@@ConnorGreen-x2ryou sound like an AH. You assume kids stay indoors to play alone because they're lazy... oblivious that the world has changed since our youth. Its not safe for kids to play outside alone anymore.
OMG IT WAS A RHETORICAL QUESTION! 🙄 He NEVER said 20/hr = 100k per year. He stated a scenario of someone making 20/hr and then asked rhetorically “is that 100k a year?” knowing that the answer was no. Raising the minimum wage to $20/hr has been a political topic for years. Everybody knows that is nowhere near 100k. It’s a strange mix of naivety and hubris to think you caught this analyst “being out of touch” when you just misread the tone.
The issue is prices will never really go down, the capitalist economic model relies on constant growth for shareholders, so prices will always go up to pad the pockets of the owner class.
@@UrbanArmadajust to add as well, when business start to cut cost or don’t pay there employees fairly so that the shareholders can make more there are less people buying products. If you don’t pay employees enough to buy anything in the current market then they won’t buy and business will start to go under. It hits especially hard for small family owned businesses that don’t have the savings or back up that big business do. So yes it is a problem in pricing and pay
so please explain to me how so many Americans are spending $1,000+ monthly on non-essentials / clutter and renting storage units for their hoarding? 🤷🏻
Yup, and all Jesse has said in the past. The crap he talked about minimum wage being raised etc. and that's minimum! This clip is 20$ an hour. Which is a good job these days.
You already know the drill, right wingers are deathly allergic to facts, math, empathy, and reality. Exposure to any of these things risks turning them into a dreaded RINO, or worse, a liberal.
That's why he is the 'EXpert'. Useless talking head saying things that aren't even a little bit true to relieve the predatory class of their (almost nonexistent) guilt from being the exploiters and robber barons that they really are.
AND THE TEXAS MINIMUM WAGE IS STILL $7.25 I used to be embarrassed to be still living with my parents in my mid 20’s. But things are even more ridiculous now. At 28 I’m still at home. It’s no longer embarrassing, now it’s just the most logical thing to be doing. I have a corporate office job, but fast food workers are making more than me right now. I would say that’s embarrassing, but it’s hard to be embarrassed when the economy is so screwed. If I want to find something that makes more money, odds are It’ll have to be something where I’m on my feet all day, dealing with rude people. Anyone that’s actively working should get paid enough to live off it. It’s absolutely insane to me that we’ve gotten to this state of things. And it’s 100% the older generation’s fault.
@@hectorgarcia8691Not to the extent it is these days, unless you go back to the Gilded Age. The average executive made 30x the amount their employees made before the 1980s. Now it's 500x or more.
That is completely due to the Department of Treasury and the Federal Reserve policy of printing to save the financial system. It creates massive distortions in the economy and the money flows to corporations and the elite. Politicians are liars. All of them.
You, like the rest of us, were sold the myth (though it use to be true) that going to college would get you a good paying job and would set you up for life. I would say that unless you are going into a field that absolutely requires a college degree (law, medicine, accounting, etc) then don't go to college. Take at least 5 years to work and figure out what you like. Then figure out how much you will make with that college degree in the field of your choice or if you even need a degree from college. If you are going to make enough to cover the debt and your expenses then go back to school if you want. You will have some money saved up to go to school so your loans won't be so high and the understanding of what that degree will actually get you for salary when you graduate. Or go into a trade. They are high paying jobs and very in demand.
I ask myself that nowadays almost everyday. The answer is because our high school told us to. We were dumb kids set up to fail by the generations that came before.
@@2avcrm a skilled trade can get you near six figures within 5 - 10 years, depending on the trade. This is something that's changed drastically in the last 10 - 20 years... as grad students continue to not change their own light bulbs because they don't have basic homeowner skills. Heck, you can easily make six figures with a small landscape crew these days... if you are the owner of the business.
Idk, I'm long term/career retail. 10yrs at my current place, which is soul sucking, but they'll pay me $30/hr to stock shelves and listen to Karens complain, so 🤷♀️
My senior father told me to go buy a home like it's no biggie. Median house cost in my area is in the 500,000s, my income is less than 50k after tax 😢 Sorry dad, I respect you but you're just another out of touch old timer who doesn't understand how hard it's become for the younger generations and the politicians you keep voting for are actively making it more difficult for my generation.
Wow I'm sorry. My friends parents bought their house with both of them just working at a grocery store. Good luck buying a house nowadays working at Kroger....
@@ericsaltonstall8573 Agreed. It sounds like the public is slowly waking up to this. I'm so damn happy to find more and more folks refusing to fall for the political propaganda.
@@glenburr6755 who do you hold accountable for all the manufacturing industry moving to other countries? The government allowed this to happen. Go look up the history of what it took to be able to open, operate a business back in the early 1920-1930s
@@la5074 to your point even the tech jobs in this country are being taken by people in other countries. I’m a software developer who just got laid off to be replaced by Costa Ricans. Three of them make up my entire salary… capitalism is disgusting and I do blame the US government for this shit happening because it should be illegal to take away American jobs and Give them to people who will never step foot in this country.
As someone who works in the mortgage industry in Arizona, the average mortgage payment is 3k+/month… It’s not possible to sustain for most people unless you’re purchasing with another person who works too
@ericapoultryz1007 most jobs don't even pay you that and even if they do they find someway to steal or manipulate you. But yes either way it's fucking horrible
I made salary as a sushi chef. $600 a week. They fired me when I had a medical emergency and almost died. I worked 70 hours a week and would have literally been out sick for 1-2 weeks
It's crazy that a 4-year degree not only costs you 10's of thousands of dollars to receive but then your starting salary is the same as a Walmart working.
While some degrees give good starting salaries, the majority of majors are a bad value economically but we expect young teenagers to make binding financial decisions based on zero life experience. Not to mention that even if they are uncharacteristically informed on the job market, a junior in highschool today is using 6 year old data to make their choice that could be fundamentally inaccurate by the time they graduate, but those student loans are still due.
Where I live you’d be lucky if you get $12 an hour working for fast food my sister works at Wendy’s and gets paid $10 an hour and the cheapest 1 bedroom apartment where I live is $1,000 a month
@@johnjames5842 this answer is getting old,they chose to be independent contractor for a reason ,so instead of talking about finding solutions to have more opportunities as an independent contractor ,you are talking about a job ,yes we kind find a job but we don’t want to be in a job ,it seems this platform is not for your response ,it’s reversed and petty .
Why should minimum wage pay for a car and house to themselves? Are you joking. It's called family and roommates. If you want to live independently you need to progress your career beyond the bare minimum.
@MagicToenail depending on the part of the country and the job as an RN ie: Hospital vs Nursing home, etc...wages are between about $36-$55 hr. So anywhere between 65k-120k roughly.
Work in a restaurant man. I make 25-40 an hour. I made 11 an hour my first job coming out of college. Don't even care to try to use my degree ever again.
Yes, there are people to whom the difference between a 30k salary and a 300k salary is like a nickel vs a quarter. I have met them and worked for them. At a very high level of wealth, pocket change is pocket change, and you don't really care.
Because with experience your salary grows exponentially compared to a fast food worker? Depending on your field, I don’t know why my generation is so self defeating.
See this might be a revolutionary idea to your conformist mind, but have you ever thought that instead of spending your time complaining about people you think below you getting higher wages, you could, I dunno, demand higher wages as well for being better prepared? No? Well, guess your degree was a fucking waste if even the fast-food workers are smarter than you.
Let’s keep in mind fast food industries are starter jobs, get your foot in the door. If someone decides to make it a career, invest into the damn franchise 🤦🏽♂️
