Careers Have Changed Forever | Asmongold Reacts 

Exactly. I was with the same company for six years. After receiving a few small and sparse raises throughout my time there, I demanded a significant raise and they refused. I left two weeks later. Not sure what they expected; I guess my shelf life just expired. I'm making much more money now and have a better quality of life. Whatever.

I'm in this situation too. Been at the same job 7 years, always worked hard and never asked for anything. After inflation wrecked our bank account, we cant pay the bills anymore on my salary. I asked for a raise and they basically told me to get lost. I used to love my job and I thought they'd have my back, but I should've left years ago.

@@Strausburg Well, now you know where you stand. Good luck with whatever you choose to do!

Basically it went from "we're rewarding you for being such a good loyal employee" to "no, please, come back"

It was aways likr that. Lol. Whats the name? Oh yeah, capitalism. Lol. Companies don't care about people lol

That and some workers have seen their coworkers get promoted, get stressed out from the workload, and then quit/get fired when they are not at fault.

This has been done to me - I shit you not - 7 times. I'm embarrassed it took so many tries for me to finally lose trust

@@Tink00 I’m sorry to hear you were taken advantage of that many times. I hope you’re working for people who appreciate you and your work now.

@@chinchilla6547 I just got laid off, but I'm sure I'll get there one day 😅

@@Tink00 yeah I’m right there with you, but we’re our own best advocates and I’m happy you’re realizing it too. I just came to the revelation in the last few months

It's amazing how being kind to your employees can do to your business

A chill work culture and colleagues make up immensely for earning a bit less than another place that is malignant.

bosses should really just start cooking for their workers instead of pushing pens. +40 income buff

Same, went from food service to entry level engineering and the work environment any moral is night and day.

I can relate, my boss is really nice

Would you reccomend any particular trade/career path within construction? Cheers!

@@irateindividual8086 I work for my state government on the inspection side of things. If you want to be an inspector, usually states, cities, and consulting companies will have openings even without any prior experience. They will train you. If you actually want to build stuff, I would recommend being an operator, there is probably a local union you can sign up for. If you want to get a degree in something like project management you can be like a superintendent or a project manager, those guys can easily make 6 figures. Definitely ask around, cause it varies

@@martief1st thanks for the reply mate, inspector sounds interesting will look into it!

I'm in construction too even though I have a lot of skills on pc, video editing, photography etc. But something about working in different places all the time, working on buildings, getting access to secure rooms and meeting new people all the time works for me! Been doing it for 7 years now.

@@irateindividual8086 I work in data cabling, which is similar to being an electrician but far less qualifications needed. I'm very lazy but I work hard, make it make sense lol. Work with cat5e-6a cable and fibre optic cable too Hope that helps you also! Usually work 8am-3/4pm :)

You are so right. I grew up the same way. Teachers were always telling us "do well or you'll end up like one of those blue collar losers". I think it's a big reason why millenials who have blue collar jobs are so unhappy, there's a huge sense of shame in us if you work and have enough money for food and rent...if your job isn't glamorous. Kind of like the untouchables in India.

amen

I've worked in warehouses all my life. I recently started being the garbage/recycling guy. Turns out, I've never made more in my life, and I make more than most college grads i know.

this was really eye opening for me when I applied for a vet tech job that was paying 14 dollars an hour for a college educated person when I with only a hs diploma was making 18 an hour. I was turned down because i had no vet tech degree but i said no the moment they told me the payrate

A pipe had burst in the middle of a winter. They call a plumber, he had to stand knees high in water for 2 hours. He did had his boots but still it was hellish cold. He had to dig trough a wall and a part of a ground in front of the house. He had to wait in that cold weather for his apprentice to get a part. It took him half a day to finish the job. Then the owner stiffed him for pay. He had to sue him and get his money 6 months later. He had to go trough all that mental pain just to get his money. He worked in literal shit for 1/2 of his life. You see title of a plumber is so nice. Replacing an easy valve is a nice thing. Life is not that easy. Plumber looks really good on paper. Not discouraging you, but not being knees high in shit from time to time is kind of easier. Parents know that. That is why they tell their kids to work in the office where it is warm and far less shit on you.

@@snickle1980 Fuckin Based.

@@snickle1980 I'm blessed with having wonderful and likeminded colleagues at work, but I know that might not be true at another place making me afraid to ever switch job :P

This is what the public education system trains people to be like.

That's a bit odd. Most of my coworkers have always been great and respectful? Some were just okay but mostly people did what was just expected.

This is true, specially being a programmer lol.

I'm pretty sure they meant playing CounterStrike and photoshopping yourself next to Britney Spears won't get you a job. Not prpgramming, which you probably didn't do anyway.

​@@flyingfrog7847editors and game testers/esports players say otherwise. And yes I understand that these positions arent very widespread but that doesnt change the fact that those 2 activies could indeed become a job if you are good enough

Good luck adapting to AI wiping out the vast majority of all computer based jobs in the next 10 years

@@atanasapostolov2731 Yeah just like playing basketball could get you in the NBA and jacking off can lead to you becoming a famous Onlyfans content creator.

Always some excuse, always how sad/upset everyone was to lose me, hell I've had an entire fkng crew shut down in protest of my firing, and yet it'd happen every time. Followed by the texts from coworkers/friends about how shitty it is without me because I take real pride in my work and happily volunteer for the shitty tasks no one wants. Companies killed loyalty, started robbing people and not paying them (as I have had happen on multiple jobs over the last few years) and they ignore their managers/leads when they are told people like me are worth the extra money to have around yet are baffled when they start losing people after they yeeted the guy who proudly carried their shitshows because the rest of their staff sure as hell wasn't boutta get filthy too knowing that no matter what they do it won't be valued...

It's depressing tbh

It’s depressing but also gives hope to people who know how to actually make shit happen.

Omfg the amount of people who abuse technical support workers at ISPs and try to get their ISP to perform duties that a private tech company/MSO should be doing literally drove me out of the telecommunications field. They know ten thousand percent that paying an MSO is going to be expensive so they try to get their local Spectrum or Verizon employee to do it. And I cannot, cannot, fucking CANNOT tell you how many mother fucking conversations I've had with management trying to explain that this is what these douchebag customers are doing.

​​@@slamdanglesWhy do you care? You're being paid by that company to do a job that wouldn't even exist if they didn't lol. If the management won't listen its your profit and their loss.

@@MRFUCKOFF202 because I loved my career at one point.

I wanna do something like this

I can't do corporate work either. I have to be outside doing something. I work hard but I'm in shape and sleep like a baby every night. Sitting at a desk every day would just make me want to die,lol. Something about that sunshine makes me happy.

I mean if they had invested, that saving would be worth just as much.

@@Claymorw Or it could be worth less if they invested in the wrong thing or at a wrong time, there is always risk.

@@melanp4698 You are investing by working and paying your taxes. You're not being smart, you're just being an apologist. It shouldn't be like this. Period.

@@melanp4698 what is the purpose of taxes, then?

not everyone has a pencil pusher job though lol

every country is materialiastic lol. go travel @@burdman5620

Most common result in my experience, the person who gets promoted is usually a woman who can’t do the job hired so gets promotion to supervisory role

@@hallowakers3d2y most common result is incompetent, male sociopaths being pulled up by other incompetent, male sociopaths to keep the male sociopath club going, but okay

@@illegalopinions4082 I guess it depends on how comfortable you feel with your job. I bet you would not be doing your best for company that couldn't care less about you as a person and is not giving you a fair payment.

@@JesusProtects They were very obviously being sarcastic. 🙄

@@yt_nh9347 The company had a computer system that orders are track by, we would have meetings where we would go over a spreadsheet the system spits out. There was plenty of info to get a % of added productivity per employee. I started as a booth welder, after 3 months knew 90% of the parts by memory without looking at print and had some of the lowest returns on our shift by that point, w slightly above average production rate. Worked there a year before, they cut everyone’s Christmas bonus after 20+ years always giving them out. Was 5th year under new ownership. I had previous experience as robotics welding operator, was approached by supervisor w hey the robotics operator is taking vacation do you think you could learn how to take over for a week? At the time my willingness the learn and create value for the company was very high, so ofc I say yes. The robotics guy quit that week bc he found higher paying job doing the same thing. They waited another week to ask me if I was willing the learn the robot troubleshooting and how to write programs. I said yes as the robot makes the work much easier and faster for the booth welders and had previous experience working w miller certified robot welder. Come to find out they didn’t want to pay me more bc it was considered an easier job there. This was 2nd welding job coming out of school, don’t put yourself after any company unless you got blood that owns the company. If they are wanting you to learn a specific skill for the better of the company better be asking when you’re getting paid more. Now work for a friend I made from that company that owns his own small company, making the some of the same parts we did at the first shop

Bcz ceo’s don’t really work, they have worked alot and grew to that position, now they have people working for them,

A comma is the difference between

The sad truth is: the CEO has people underneath who work can be delegated to. If you are not a CEO, delegating your work to people underneath you (who likely don't exist!) usually makes you a small business owner. But if you have three jobs, and all of them require you to do labor because nobody above you is willing to do that labor, you're only option is to pay an illegal to do it for less than what you make. Which then you are essentially a contractor, farm owner, meat plant owner, or any other unregulated industry.

What I hear you saying is all laborers deserve massive danger pay

It certainly is riskier, but it’s just the obvious choice for some people. Like for myself, I’ve worked construction, roofing, etc. because I cannot fathom having a job where you just sit at a desk all day

@@daltonroberts7312 absolutely. And medical to be covered and none of this dodging coverage I have seen done.

@@iiBenihime for me I have never been in the right physical shape and accident prone so obviously keep me at a desk.

People make 100k+ in construction because they pay with their physical bodies. That's not a job normal people can do for 25+ years. People move on to be foremen, supervisors, managers, consultants, union reps, etc. because their bodies and their families just can't take it any more.

Your comments are true but it is difficult to 'swallow the pill.' We were taught cutting corners are wrong and many ethical dilemmas need to be addressed. As of now I am employing tactics that fall under your comment. Issue is to acknowledge being ethical doesn't always get rewarded.

Yeah I think we are taught "work hard and you will get rewarded" but that's not guaranteed. Especially if your putting effort on the wrong things.

@@flowerbloom5782 You make a very good point, and to add to it, you can do less effort if you focus on the right things, and get rewarded for it. Its important to know what to prioritize and do that.

@@metagaminguniversemgu2240 I've cut the right corners and was fired. Later she told me I was, "vying for the supervisors job". Bish I'm trying to get a 10-hour dishwashing job done in 4, lay off and let me make pizzas. (Of 20 interviewed in group interview, 5 were hired and put on rotation. But I was stuck dishwashing because I was the ONLY person doing it RIGHT, and got stuck doing it)

Don't forget to be in ur boss click. If ur not in it ur f

Being a high performer, like me, is counterproductive if you have a boss who is jealous. They will undercut you and fire you.

​@@irrationalpie3143 In engineering, right now you have all the power due to market wide shortages of talent so in many cases if it comes to either you or boss, most companies will probably choose you (of course this requires you to get noticed which often requires your boss to do his job and have your best interest in mind). In such a scenario, you looking elsewhere can really only benefit you. Having a positive relationship with management is one of the most important things to workplace happiness, which if you make excess as an engineer, should be even more important than making more money.

@@askmiller Let me dispel your rosy perception of how Fortune 500 companies operate. In a large company, management is primarily concerned with covering their own rear, advancing / protecting their own career gains, and playing internal politics. Many of them have outdated performance systems where your manager is the ONLY entity in the company in charge of evaluating your performance. Management one level above your manager, has no idea what you're working on for the most part. I've been a technical leader in cellular 2G,3G,4G, 5G and GNSS technologies in my group for 9 years, and my director had not a slightest clue what I was working on that entire time. Once I got a new ambitious narcissistic young manager after my previous manager left, he wanted all the credit for himself, and he fired people as he pleased. I'm sure after he's added the management experience to his resume, he'll leave to wreck a new engineering group at a new company.

@@irrationalpie3143 I've been employed as a software engineer across 2 Fortune 500 companies for almost 2 decades. In my positions, I eventually got to the level where I would present to customers on behalf of the company about project performance. These types of meetings go directly to upper management first, and they are often directly aware of what I am doing. Besides that level though, directors can learn of what you're doing if you directly interact with them. Depending on the size of your location, they might be willing to have lunch with you and learn more about what your team is doing. At a minimum though, there's no reason to not be friendly towards them. You're right that performance measures are often outdated. Years of experience tend to dictate a huge percentage of your perceived performance. I don't know if my experience with software engineering translates to your wireless expertise directly, but in my line of work, even if the upper managers know nothing of what you're doing, simply losing a head in a position they're actively trying to fill might be viewed as unacceptable. Yea your boss will probably spin some story as to why you leaving is justified, but even if they do, clearly leaving is in your best interest anyway.

@@askmiller Actually when you're in customer facing positions , it's much safer and you get the visibility. When I supported customer bids or deployments it was fine. However as soon as you lose that access to positivity of supporting customers, sales managers etc, you're at the risk of having performance judged based on loyalty and sycophancy. I'm in wireless systems engineering (not software) , however in December 2022 in my department they got rid of 75% of software engineers in my group. Allegedly to transfer those same jobs to Bangalore. The thing is, those software engineers were responsible for 90% of currently shipping product in the niche that I worked in (Industrial IoT) , so basically inter-department consolidation wars claiming victims left and right.

Hey man, America isn't looking much better at the moment. Just remember that hard times have happened before, don't convince yourself you can't overcome them. I mean this in the kindest way, I hope that comes across.

@@daviddobarganes9115 I do understand that, but I cannot turn a blind eye to the fact that I'm not quite the exemple of a prepared man. I may be able to overcome a sad day but a Dictatorship and communist party is kinda hard not gonna lie 😅. Thank you for being friendly tho, kinda heartwarming for me to see a good message in these troublesome times.

@daviddobarganes9115 America is doing much better than Brazil actually. It's just America isn't doing well in comparison to itself.

@@tacsmith yeah, but I don't judge him, it's natural in the human to think that his world is having the worst time ever aways. Like, I'm almost certain that most African and Asian countries are having it much worst than us

@@defalttheloner of course. I wasn't attempting to judge. But sometimes it's good to have some perspective. Often times, when I look at things with gratitude, it can change my entire outlook.

If it dose not rain, how is your knowledge going to help you be wealthy? All these BS ideals are for the benefit of the rich and government.

Knowledge is power. And because of that, the globalist warmongers have worked overtime to make sure you won't get useful knowledge.

I have no idea how people like you are able to move up lol. Even when I'm doing really really well I've never been offered a promotion. Is it just knowing the right people? Luck?

@@alexanderjakubowski5673Vitamin B is the biggest probably. Without connecting to people and showing that you are there who are you truly ? The guy who works hard ? well nobody knows that ! so having a few or a lot of great connections can save your butt more often than you can.

​@@alexanderjakubowski5673same LMAO 😂😂😂 I was recently laid off bc of supply chain issues but we had a guy literally clocking in and hanging out in his car for hours at a time. He still works there and I'm waiting on my unemployment insurance claim 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️ The issue, ten thousand percent, is management. Every single company is swamped with management that are there for one reason, to abuse people. That's it. Good management does not exist anymore and the worker bees are the ones suffering the most bc of it.

I've experienced this an insane amount of times. If you're really good at what you do, it makes everyone else look bad and they try to take you down. I've experienced almost everything in this video and in the comments and to be honest at this point I do the very, very bare minimum and literally every job is temporary to me now. Managers cannot recognize talent to save their lives. And I say this bc I watch all of these companies do worse and worse after I leave.

@@slamdangles what's sad is they succeed in taking you down with ease

​@@vaylalynn3679 I wouldn't say with ease man, but they definitely took me down. I was working with a company doing phone cable and internet service and they tried for a year to catch me on something and finally they made up a story to get rid of me. One place I can absolutely verify that if you're super productive it makes everyone hate you.... United Health Group! I had processed medical claims for 8 years, so when I joined them their newbies were processing maybe 10 claims an hour. I was averaging 35. They had people on the floor who had been there 10 years that couldn't touch those numbers. It made them look really bad and it exposed how little work they were actually doing, so I genuinely was a threat to them and they yeeted me. I worked very briefly with the American Heart Association and I was shadowing with some of their techs and they didn't know the first thing about troubleshooting, but they were all getting paid like $20/hour. I was out within a few weeks. I genuinely don't know what the formula is for staying with a company long term, I just show up, do my job to the best of my ability and clock out when I'm supposed to and that makes people hate me for some reason.

It makes me feel less alone to see other people have experienced this too

Yeah, I had degrees to become a professional interpreter, and instead ended up in QA. I f*cking love it, and there’s barely enough of us at all times bc engineers sneer at stuff that are not development/specification. I’m literally being haunted on Linkedin at this point, especially for senior tech writing jobs 🤷🏻‍♀️ that’s the perfect stepping stone for a transition like this

Question from me is then how do you decide on which skill to learn? As in i have no goal or any current skill... and no i don't know what i would like to do for work, at all which is my problem... (Well the only goal i would have is not having to worry about money, so being rich i guess...)

@@Yamidoragon Nice, I'm actually creating canaries for the next couple of months

@@redroyce4590 That's a very tough question tbh. I was in the same boat as you, I just tried different stuff dealing with tech cause I always been into computers and I just happened to come across something I like in that field.

@@Yamidoragon what's QA?

The truth is: Those higher positions are in limited supply. Most of the time, the company that hires you has zero intention of promoting you. Ever. You are supposed to do the grunt work until you die. There are exceptions, but those are becoming exceedingly rare.

It's also unrealistic to think even 10% of the people who heard that will do it. "Well if 100% of people do it then it won't work so I won't do it" is such a paradoxically stupid take because it proves in itself 100% won't do it

@@jaredcollins2049 You missed the point of my comment. I'm not saying whether or not it's realistically possible that everyone will become a CEO. I'm saying that people shouldn't live in abject poverty working a fulltime job, and the only solution is to climb the corporate ladder. I would argue maybe 20% or less of the total population has the mindset to want to become a CEO/corporate x, y or z. Some people just want to not be poor. I don't really understand where you stand on this, because all you brought to this conversation is "that's not realistic," and provided no stance.

Psst most people wont do that which makes room for you.

@@Nostalgiaforinfi Psst, just because people don't choose to play the corporate game, doesn't mean they should have to live in abject poverty. If your reading comprehension was above a third grade reading level, you would understand that is what I was trying to say.

@n30n Attend a Vocational School where you can learn how to do specific jobs. My friend went there with me, he became an electrician and I became an IT-guy.

In Finland the bus drivers make more than welders

Lawyers don’t always make bank. Girl I knew was a lawyer so I thought oh cool she’s doing real well in life. Nope, living with her parents making 38k CAD. Fully licenced lawyer. I made more money drilling holes in pieces of aluminum part time, while in university.

Real men weld their foreskins back on

@@BruceWillis57 Correct, I can confirm. Cos' I live in Finland.

@@AuspexAO the company I just left was hiring trash but they did it on purpose, we would warn them not to hire certain people because of violent pasts with current employees. hired on the frkin spot. he later was arrested during a STANDOFF with police after a girl escaped his house in chains. So a company tried poaching me and did.. to try and pay me less.. then the old company calls "desperate" for help they literally closed my shift.. I'm like cool, as long as you pay me right, I left because they werent. Dude says of course, my first day back i notice my pay rate is lower than when I left. So now I'm freelance, no boss and make more than either could of offered.

I saw the stack of candidates and knew some of them would of been amazing, with shining resumes. Frankly, the company cant blame the employee if they hire gold star types

@@AuspexAO I do agree mostly, but i feel at the moment, its a workers market, once the recession goes full blown and the media takes the duct tape off its mouth it will become an employers market again. Good thing is in general ive been noticing a lot more sign on bonuses, instant insurance benifits, and higher starting wages in places that are ... lets say.. a little more serious about hiring help. :D

Companies that invest in the health and wellbeing of their own employees deserves the utmost amount of respect.

Having a regular job still sorta cuts down the amount of time you enjoy gaming. Albeit if you're having fun with your time, that's all it matters.

and then you get a girlfriend and she isn't a gamer...

@@FireJach if she is stopping you from doing what you love, all im gonna say is that it might be a bad sign

@@specificocean4176 meaning he has to now split his time gaming with his girl.

The pay would be even lower, more workers means less money

This, and the pay that MOST workers who go into the trades make, are extremely important things for people to know about and hear. Yes. You can make $180k in a trade. But you're more likely to make very little, often no more than if you just kept working at a Target or a Walmart instead of paying for trade school in the first place. Hell, you can make $180k working for the USPS, if you're willing to put up with their mandatory overtime and horrible working conditions, and you don't need any education whatsoever to get a job there--in fact, they're desperately seeking suckers, I mean employees to deliver the mail 12-16 hours per day, 9 days between each single day off, with literally no legal means of striking. (Look it up, it's literally illegal for USPS employees to go on strike) The good paying positions exist, but unless you have an in, ahead of time, or get extremely lucky, you're not going to get those positions. You're going to get the bottom of the barrel positions that maybe will go somewhere after decades of back breaking labor. But also maybe won't. The sad fact of the matter is that nearly 70% of the population lives paycheck to paycheck, and that you aren't going to get ahead while living in the US. Capitalism is a cannibalistic system that destroys the very people necessary for it to exist in the first place--the workers. In previous decades we had more and better regulations in place to check and control the worst tendencies of capitalism, but only where it benefited white men. Capitalism and the current two-party system in US politics are the problems, not any individual person's career or education choices.

@@NileRoan This all makes so much sense. Feels hopeless and pointless for me to go to college or take up a trade or do anything, even. What can we do... I plan on either going to college for computer science, getting certifications to get into IT, or just becoming a welder, electrician, or carpenter if those don't' work out...

I had it easy. Was born into heavy structural automotive repair. Taught by my father who has been the most skilled technician in the shops for the last 30 years. Whose father also was the same. I'm 24 currently making 250k a year. Started working at 15 I've never regretted it. I still have a proper higher education graduated in 3D and visual effects even did some pipelines in python and vex but pay was lower than my current job.

@@shyjy6241 if you're serious I'm just going lay it out for you. Go into automotive re finishing at a proper trade school and get hired at Mercedes or a toyota repair center. That's an easy 150k and high acceptance rate. Forget about the other stuff especially carpentry. All comfy office jobs are about to die start toughening up now while you still have the chance. Save up and start a family business don't start a family of your own untill you've fixed the one you're already born into. You'd be surprised how much money can be made from having a well structured family business.

I've never seen anyone in the trades acknowledge this. I tried to get in for years

Have you seen the movie: The Accountant?

@@TibiConstantine hahaha

@@TibiConstantine great movie

Fellow accountant here, for real lol

yep, same

Welcome to reality. It's always been like this though. Life is not fair and every single day is a roll of the dice. There's no guaranteed way to roll a higher outcome, you just have to keep rolling the dice.

work smarter but turn in work at a slower rate. enjoy being stress free

Until someone comes and does it at normal rate, seems to learn faster and work harder, gain more skills and they get the promotion before you do, which also makes them your superiors realize what you are doing or just assume that you are worse. That's a part of it too that needs to be said. It's a part of the equation.. + this only works for things you hate. People don't typically stay inefficient or unwilling to learn in areas that matter to them.

​​@@Moloch6666Exactly. My manager said they wanted 30 a day. I could have done 60-90. I worked 2-4 hours to do 30 because the reward for doing double or triple is absolutely nothing

Promotions don't exist.

I did this too, it took about a year and half to get over the burn out. My perspective now is, all I did wrong was have a good work ethic and not have good boindaries. I like to work hard, I just need the right mixture to live a good life and it's my responsibility to put that together. It took a year to find it, but Im very happy with my work now. My boss is great because they appreciate my hard work, and the boundaries have been clear from the start. You know how this all works now, so you never have to get burned out like that again 👍

@@mattcler7849 sorry to hear man, sounds like you’ve been through it. Lots of crazy shit going down behind the scenes in the military. I tried to join when I was younger but got declined due to being on brain altering medication. Do you mind if I ask what country you served? Hope you’re doing alright now. Appreciate your service and bravery my brother, no matter where you reside. From Canada 🇨🇦

@@CharlieBam good to hear, glad you’re doing better and in a good place. Gives me a bit of hope to read that lol. I was always guilted into dealing with other people’s responsibilities because I was unable to speak up for myself, something I’ll never do again.

Happened at my last job in a supermarket, we are chronically understaffed and the old CEO decided to hire new people to start covering for any understaffing... new CEO then came in and started to lay off everyone but the local managers and HR. They have managed to find enough people to open a new big location, but now they risk closing like half of the already existing ones because they can't hire at the same rate they are laying off. Now I work in a trade that honestly? I don't like. Pays well if you do well, but I have to harass people and I don't have the luxury to actually be off work when my shift is done. I will lay myself off once I got enough experience and move elsewhere.

The problem people are afraid to ask for more money I used to ask for a raise every 3 months because my responsibilities grown so the times they give a raise I did my best but when they refused to pay me I just told them that I won’t do it but they don’t fire me because they need it me

Japan’a four day work week is being taken more seriously. Jobs in finance are booming right now

@Samuel Richards I really hope that gets some traction over here in the US. I love the push to working from home that the pandemic brought, let's keep these improvements to work/life balance coming

@@HaruKodama Microsoft recently tried it out. And with all the massive lay offs in the tech sector something is going to give.

You’re so fcking right, got a masters degree after 7 years and it’s utterly useless salary wise compared to what you said.

250k a year here. Auto body guy. Dropped out of high school at 15. If i could live my life over 30 more times I'd make sure to drop out even sooner every time.

@@jinxxpwnage Like holy shit, do you work for yourself? I mean some things are nice but working my ass of in school/uni and putting myself in debt for what, knowledge? Not for salary that's for sure..

@@santeenl Hi! , I do both I work in structural repair on high end vehicles for insurance companies and that's my 9 to 5. then in the afternoons I work on brand new trucks I buy from the auction house mostly IAAI they have locations all over. I only buy runs and drives 2022 trucks those usually get totaled for a front collision that the dumbass insurance adjuster who's never touched a tool in his life thought would cost $40,000 to replace a hood front bumper and a headlight. I fix them usually under a week painted and everything and I just have to deal with inspection and opening the title later on. I don't have to go through emission due to the year. Then I honestly sell them off to friends that own dealerships they'll finance that salvage title at a very low monthly payment and the people buy them even if they'll pay them for decades on end. I just ask for a small profit when I sell them to them. Sales are too much of a hassle but it really boosts my income regardless so it's fine for me. Sometimes I do the opposite I'll buy some shitty 2008 car for $1,500 invest 2k in total to repair and sell it to some high school kid for a down payment of 2k , Whatever he ends up giving me after that before he crashes it is a profit and I can sell those directly to customer. Let's just say selling a 2k car is easier than selling a 70k truck. The amount of time it takes for the truck to sell ends up being longer and 10 shitty cars end up being better option , which is why I sell those trucks to friends that have dealerships. I prefer trucks over cars because there's a bigger market , if you get a long bed they'll be a landscaper or house painter that'll love it , if you get the short bed and fancy interiors you'll always have the short Mexican guy who loves his corridos and thinks he's from the cartel and he'll buy it to impress the chicks. If you get an SUV someone with a large family will buy it etc.

Yeah but in my situation, if I don’t report to my manager first thing when I get there and ask what needs to be done, I get criticized for “not focusing on the important stuff first.”

Turns out almost every trade is a 6 figure job

Yup. I make 80-100k a year doing a physical job I could have gotten right out of high-school and the thing is I love my job so makes life a little more enjoyable.

@@yt_nh9347 Even STEM degrees aren't worth shit due to the sheer oversupply of graduates. Trade jobs where I'm from pay much more and actually hire people instead of fighting tooth and nail to secure an entry level engineering or lab job that pays nothing relative to the cost of the STEM education.

So what did you achived while in college?

This is incorrect if you’re referring to the military. Lot of captains end up sitting at a desk job waiting to go take command. (Waiting for a current commander to finish his time). And none make major or colonel after “a few years”. But if this isn’t referring to the military. Then carry on

This is acually good advice.

Correct. 22 year old Jimmy living in the basement needs to take action. Sometimes these videos prevent people from taking step 1.

@Paganz that's ok for current entertainers but what about trying to break into the industry

@@Dragonfury3000 English?

@@Dragonfury3000 I do realize that that's why I made the comment

He's extremely lucky he gets to make money at it. Everyone would do it if they could.

LMAO now thats some funny sh!t

Honestly. Not terrible. But yeah

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@@yerd1511 imagine being a physicist in chernobyl or the project manhattan, that's fucked up

@@yerd1511 also, during world war ii, scientists had to move from country to country because of their nationality or even being used as a political/military resource even though they weren't trained and didn't care about killing shit... so yeah, i can keep doing this with examples a d stuff

@@antronixful being a scientist in chernobyl or project manhattan would still be extremely cool

Imagine having to file your taxes yourself for a country that already knows what you owe. Just American Things

Feels good giving your money to pfizer and ukraine?

@@forsaken43252 beats Flippin burgers

@@forsaken43252 Don’t forget that if you get the amount wrong, you can potentially face legal charges

@@walter1515 walter

Well it sounds like you're just talking about China,SK, or Japan. Because Americans consider our work life balance to be bad on average compared to pretty much all of Europe.