The Post Office pays more than $15 an hour and you actually can get benefits.
They ended unemployment especially in the red States and yet….
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The Post Office pays more than $15 an hour and you actually can get benefits.
Average United States Postal Service Mail Sorter yearly pay in the United States is approximately $33,664 which is $16.20. This is the average. In most places, it is less, but some places more. But, to your point, I think working for USPS is a great job because of the benefits.
So what is the solution? What have I said that was outdated? Learning a valuable skill is outdated? Getting married is outdated? Going to school for a STEM degree is outdated? Buying a starter home and working your way up is outdated? Working more than one job is outdated?
If a kid can't change an alternator, install wire dimmers, or do other handyman jobs. that is poor parenting. Not my fault or society's fault.
With all due respect, you are complaining that you are barely able to swap out the air suspension or air compressor on your $70,000 BMW?
Earning $15/ hr is a blessing. I know people who earn much less.
My wife and I bought our first home for 74k in '94. Now that same home is going for 4x what we paid.
What Ellenwood lookin' like nowadays???
This why niggas like you get they deauxs kicked in.
You can get a 4/3 in Ellenwood in the mid 200s.
Well, I'm not a nigga, so i guess I'm safe.
Some of y'all gon' learn that da antiquated views you applied to yesteryear doesn't apply to today's climate. Whole way of thinkin' be backwards as fuck.
In 1974, the minimum wage was $2.00. Today, the minimum wage is $7.25. In keeping with the inflation of your home and using that as the standard rate of increase, today's minimum wage should be $8.00. This is a 9% difference. This is significantly lower than $15/hr.
Neighborhoods are worse. This is a fact. I acknowledge this. Some homes that are affordable are now in neighborhoods where crime has risen exponentially. But this was never the argument.
And with all sincerity for the fourth time, what is the solution? What can you tell people that they can apply to their lives right now that will help them improve their lives? According to some of you:
- Going to college, bad idea, it is a waste of time.
- Get another job so that you have two jobs, bad idea, you want more free time.
- Quit your current job and get a different job, bad idea, you current job should just want to pay you more.
- Move somewhere cheaper, bad idea, you want to live wherever you want.
- Live within your means, bad idea, you want to have the lifestyle equivalent to everyone else regardless of education, job, etc.
- Buy a house, bad idea, the affordable homes are in neighborhoods you don't like.
- Get married and practice group economics as two working adults, bad idea, these hoes ain't shit.
Internet, social media, tech, networking, knowledge on more subjects such as stocks , more options in the job marketing , more ways to make money off your capabilities as self employed person… it’s way more ways to make money these days than it was 40+ yrs ago hell even 20 yrs ago.. hell you keep talking about stem what was stem 40 yrs ago?.. you see even you pushing a newer way to make money that didn’t exist or had lil impact yesteryear.. this is what shorty means… the game plan of 2021 is diff than the game plan of 1981
My solution currently??? Hittin' this ignore button on yo' bitch ass like I shoulda been did.
That's.... kind of a shit argument then homie.
I personally think it was easier to make money 20 yrs ago on the internet due to there being less competition and saturation
No YouTube, No ig, no Twitter, no pornhub, no onlyfans, no Facebook, more than 80 percent of people had no cellphones and internet access was rare and let’s not even go into how slow internet was
That’s literally over a billion plus people due to those outlets you could network or make money off of that didn’t exist
College students? Retired people? Second job?
the point is, if your expecting those kinda jobs to be able to survive long term as an adult, your fucked.
White people do stupid shit like this to live in certain neighborhoods.
You know what a 4 bedroom cost to rent in NY?????? Shit i cant even remember the last time i seen a 3 bedroom anything in NY. Much less a 4
The point is there should be no job in America where a person works full time hours and is unable to "survive long term".
A college student still has bills, health care co-pays, a gas tank and a stomach like every other person.
There was a time when anybody that worked any full time job was a respectable member of society, now people look down at the person who is pumping their gas.
I guarantee there are brothers on this board who have one or both parents that can barely read or do more than basic arithmetic, who worked a job that we would now called unskilled. But their jobs were able to provide enough to "survive long term", put a roof over their heads and food on the table. The minimum wage use to be enough for people to live, not just survive.
This is not completely true. Most of our black parents worked more than one job. Additionally, both parents worked, especially if they both earned minimum wage. They were able to sustain because of multiple factors.
- Group economics: pooling their money together. (Mom and dad)
- Strict budgeting: Not buying luxury items. Many of us had shoes that were sold with a plastic string hanging on a hook with no shoe box.
- Living within our means: There was a time when kids shared rooms. Houses and homes were much smaller. We kept cars much longer to avoid car payments. We never ate out, except special occasions. We wore hand me downs and second hand clothing.
Why? Some jobs are less significant and command a less significant salary. By your statement and logic, the guy spinning the tax arrow should be able to buy a house from his or her job? The greeter at Walmart should be able to retire from their salarly?
I honestly dont recall those times
How can we look at someone willing to do jobs many are not willing to do and say they do not to work. The person working 80 hours a week isn't looking to be comfortable, they are looking to live
Once again, why is the minimum wage called the minimum if it does not afford the minimum. You jumped to buy a house, I say afford rent for a studio apartment.
Walmart invented the Walmart greeter. Yes, if they had someone fill out a W-4, then that job should afford one the minimum required to live. And yes, I believe Walmart should be matching 401k. Even for a greeter, a position they created. Nobody is forcing Walmart to hire greeters.
Tito killin yawl niggas
Where the fuck was the fundraiser Tito????
@Amajorfucup my fault I also forgot he’s regional director of the homeless shelter
you just asked the question that 95% of nBGOL has no clue of the answer but will use their “phone a friend” option to ask the so-called white for guidance.
This nigga must got 48 hours in his day to hold down that many jobs and titles... .. Amazing..
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I just saw this. I have the same 24 hours as everyone else. How I use my time is what differs between you and I. I get up around 4:30 everyday without an alarm. I'm in the gym by 5 and back home by 6:15 to shower and get myself and my boys ready for work and school. By this time, I have worked out, checked my email and replied, set up my stock option plays for the day, checked news, checked bgol, showered, trimmed beard,, brushed teeth, got dressed, and pulled food out the freezer for dinner, all before 7:30am. All of you have more time available than you realize. I had a mentor make me schedule out my entire 24 hours. Do this and you will see where you waste too much time. Also, you will see where you could be multi-tasking.
Also, I'm not sure why people think that attending a fund raiser is such a big deal. There are fundraisers taking place everywhere everyday. Just find one and go. On some real ish, fundraisers are excellent networking opportunities.
157,000 new jobs in September get Canada's economy back above pre-pandemic level
OCTOBER 08, 2021
A September surge in hiring has brought Canada's job numbers back to pre-pandemic levels. But many are still being left behind, even as the job market expands. 1:55
Canada's economy added 157,000 new jobs last month, Statistics Canada says, enough to put employment numbers back above where they were before the pandemic started.
The jobs surge was more than twice as big as the 60,000 new jobs that economists were expecting.
It was also enough to push the jobless rate down two ticks to 6.9 per cent. That's the lowest unemployment rate since the pandemic started.
Before the pandemic, Canada's jobless rate was 5.6 per cent. It jumped up sharply in March, April and May of 2020, peaking at 13.7 per cent in May of last year, and has trended downward ever since.
Canada's economy has finally replaced the jobs it lost to the pandemic, new numbers from Statistics Canada on Friday suggest. (Samantha Nar/CBC)
While there are now the same number of jobs as there were before COVID-19 arrived in Canada, that doesn't necessarily mean people are working as much as they were before.
The number of people working less than half the hours they would normally do is still 218,000 people higher than were doing so in February 2020. And the total number of hours worked by all employees is still 1.5 per cent below the pre-pandemic level, despite there being more jobs now.
Employment for women was a source of particular strength for the month, with 154,000 of the new jobs going to women. That means female employment has returned to its pre-COVID level, but there are still more than 100,000 fewer men with a full time job now than there were before. That's been somewhat offset, however, by an increase in part-time work among men.
Women bore the brunt of the pandemic job losses, prompting some watchers to dub the downturn a she-cession.
Aaliyah Beckford is one of millions of Canadian women who lost their job in the pandemic who has now managed to find work again.
The 23-year-old from Brampton, Ont., was working in retail when she was laid off in the early days of COVID-19. She said it was initially jarring but that she made the best of it by using her down time to pursue her dream of becoming a coder.
"It was the push I needed," she told CBC News in an interview. "It was disappointing at first, but it was also very motivating at the same time."
WATCH | Aaliyah Beckford says getting laid off was the jolt her career needed:
After completing a boot camp at a local school to learn new computer programming languages, she managed to land a job this summer
"I always knew, while working in retail, even before the pandemic, that it's not what I wanted to do forever. So I just told myself, you're not going to be a lawyer, but you're going to be a really cool software developer."
But long-term joblessness persists
Things worked out fine for Beckford and everyone else who found a job after losing one in the pandemic, but that doesn't mean that some job seekers aren't being left behind — even as the job market expands.
The number of people considered to be long-term unemployed — which means they haven't had a job for at least 27 weeks in a row, or about six months — is now twice was it was before the pandemic, at 389,000 people. That 's more than a quarter of everyone without a job.
Leah Nord with the Canadian Chamber of Commerce says that's a bad sign.
"It's important to celebrate the encouraging gains we are seeing in employment numbers over the past month, yet we also cannot afford to sweep under the rug those numbers," she said. "In the midst of a mass labour shortage, 27.3 per cent of unemployed Canadians are unaccounted for. Where did they go?"
"Canadians want to work; most are not unemployed by choice, so we need to dig down and find out exactly what's holding them back so we can make evidence-based decisions. Our full economic recovery depends on it."
Economist Sri Thanabalasingam with TD Bank agrees that long-term unemployment is concerning, but he's not ringing alarm bells just yet.
The glut of people having trouble getting back into the workforce "could be reflecting the difficulties faced by long-term unemployed Canadians in finding new jobs, perhaps due to a deterioration of skill sets," he said.
"That said, ongoing income support programs, such as the Canada recovery benefit, may also be a contributing factor. This program, among others, is expiring at the end of the month, which could lead to more people rejoining the workforce in October, that is, unless it is extended."
Here I am thinking me waking up at 3:30am to watch my fav movies is me doing something.
Bro
tell us your afternoon and evening schedule.
we have all of the shit u say u do on file
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