25 years old and deep in debt

[Jacob]

I owe it to the company store.

Nicely done

[garbon]

What does eating have to do with it?

[garbon]

Yes. We should stop telling children that a degree is a ticket to the good life. Perhaps it once was but we don't live in those times.

Better tell Cal and the rest of the HR flunkies that too, or who ever are the ones that require degrees for toilet scrubbing jobs nowdays.

I'm not sure how what I said conflicts with requiring a degree as a minimum bar to entry. If anything, you'd expect such given that degrees are more widely available.

[Jacob]

What does eating have to do with it?

 

I should not post on the goddamn iPad! There's inevitably some autocorrect typo in the post. Fucking hell.

... but I only brought an iPad with me in the trip, so I'm stuck. Bah!

Speaking of obnoxious ipadisms - why does it always come up with an "undo typing?" dialogue if I put it down in the middle of a post or email? That shit (not "shot" autocorrect) is truly annoying.

[DGuller]

Ok, there are some people who make a minimum wage with a degree.  That's a good enough piece of information for an outrage, but how many people without a degree make the minimum wage?  The fact that getting a degree doesn't work out for some people doesn't mean that it doesn't work out on average.

[MadImmortalMan]

Ok, there are some people who make a minimum wage with a degree.  That's a good enough piece of information for an outrage, but how many people without a degree make the minimum wage?  The fact that getting a degree doesn't work out for some people doesn't mean that it doesn't work out on average.

Well, that number is 300 million times 0.00087. BLS says 4.7 percent of the population made minimum wage in 2012, so your point seems to hold up pretty well if we assume the remainder have high school or less.

[DontSayBanana]

Just saw this, which seems somewhat germane to the conversation:

http://money.cnn.com/interactive/economy/us-jobs-wages/?source=cnn_bin

Apparently, 18 million jobs pay $10/hr or less, 63 million pay $10-20, so we're looking at around 81 million jobs at $20/hr or under.

[CountDeMoney]

Apparently, 18 million jobs pay $10/hr or less, 63 million pay $10-20, so we're looking at around 81 million jobs at $20/hr or under.

The Languishite GOPtards will say that's 63 million too many, dammit.

[DontSayBanana]

Apparently, 18 million jobs pay $10/hr or less, 63 million pay $10-20, so we're looking at around 81 million jobs at $20/hr or under.

The Languishite GOPtards will say that's 63 million too many, dammit.

To which I would suggest they try to live on 40k a year without any form of governmental assistance.

[Caliga]

Better tell Cal and the rest of the HR flunkies that too, or who ever are the ones that require degrees for toilet scrubbing jobs nowdays.

Cal is neither a flunky nor works in HR.

[HVC]

Better tell Cal and the rest of the HR flunkies that too, or who ever are the ones that require degrees for toilet scrubbing jobs nowdays.

Cal is neither a flunky nor works in HR.

i think that sentence has two n's too many

[alfred russel]

To which I would suggest they try to live on 40k a year without any form of governmental assistance.

I get that living on minimum wage is very difficult. But 40k? If you are a single mother with a family of four, yeah it is. If you are a single guy, it isn't hard at all.

[Eddie Teach]

To which I would suggest they try to live on 40k a year without any form of governmental assistance.

I get that living on minimum wage is very difficult. But 40k? If you are a single mother with a family of four, yeah it is. If you are a single guy, it isn't hard at all.

Location makes a big difference, garbon probably pays that much in rent.

[garbon]

To which I would suggest they try to live on 40k a year without any form of governmental assistance.

I get that living on minimum wage is very difficult. But 40k? If you are a single mother with a family of four, yeah it is. If you are a single guy, it isn't hard at all.

Location makes a big difference, garbon probably pays that much in rent.

[Eddie Teach]

You live in Manhattan, don't you?