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Re: I have a BA Degree from a good college but am applying to minimum wage jobs [Re: Crystal G]
#19001933 - 10/19/13 10:41 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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For me going to university was a job. I made many times the tuition I paid in scholarships , plus research Nd teaching contracts.
Now I have a low paying job but it's full time, low stress, easy as hell, with health benefits and insurance, and it's enough to pay for all my expenses, entertainment and savings.
Also my province has a tuition tax credit where my tuition paid is credited against income tax, so I will pay no income tax for years.
Because I have zero debt, a fully paid off house , no car (no gas or insurance) and no kids, I basically feel like a rich man even though my job pays shit.
I want for nothing . Still I'm sure ill get a much better job soonish.
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Re: I have a BA Degree from a good college but am applying to minimum wage jobs [Re: Moonshoe]
#19001938 - 10/19/13 10:43 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Re: I have a BA Degree from a good college but am applying to minimum wage jobs [Re: bearlion]
#19001939 - 10/19/13 10:43 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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You pretty much gotta start entry level in jobs these days. Your education will have an effect on how far you will be able to go from there. Just cuz you got an education doesn't mean you don't still have to work your way to the top. Unless you got mad connections and a good network. Or an influential family.
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Re: I have a BA Degree from a good college but am applying to minimum wage jobs [Re: Patlal] 2
#19001985 - 10/19/13 10:56 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Patlal said: I have a BA.
I haven't even tried to get in job in the last 4 years.
I have a friend who has a BA too, she hasn't been able to get a stable job for the last 3 years. So I figure I won't lose my time applying to jobs.
So just because your friend can't get a job with a BA that means you won't try? That seems silly. Your friend may be really bad at getting jobs.
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Re: I have a BA Degree from a good college but am applying to minimum wage jobs [Re: unknown1123]
#19002257 - 10/20/13 12:21 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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unknown1123 said: Brokers and agents are two different things.
Best side job is to be just a lister. 3% comish for nothing 
What's a lister, just somebody who runs a website with lists of properties for sale? Do you need a license to do that? And does the person have to buy the home from your website for you to make money? Cause really, who buys a home through the internet?
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Re: I have a BA Degree from a good college but am applying to minimum wage jobs [Re: unknown1123]
#19002336 - 10/20/13 01:00 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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unknown1123 said: Shut it paul
Is that a reference to paul from aqua teen hunger force?
if so 
or is a reference to the biblical paul?
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Re: I have a BA Degree from a good college but am applying to minimum wage jobs [Re: Crystal G]
#19002344 - 10/20/13 01:04 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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They are listing agents. Usually retired real estate people that put their big name on the property to attract a bigger clientele and a lesser known broker or agent can do the actual sale.
That's what happened when my parents listed their 600k home anyways.
Old hags were already rich so weren't motivated to sell, they had multiple properties that they just sit back and collect on when sold. They dropped them after the contract was over and got with an up and coming agent who got the the same amount of showings in her first week than the old fucks in 6 months.
House is still for sale tho, I don't think the rents even want to sell it...
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Re: I have a BA Degree from a good college but am applying to minimum wage jobs [Re: Moonshoe]
#19002347 - 10/20/13 01:05 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Moonshoe said:
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unknown1123 said: Shut it paul
Is that a reference to paul from aqua teen hunger force?
if so 
or is a reference to the biblical paul?
No, reference to you being pawpaw back in OTD
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Re: I have a BA Degree from a good college but am applying to minimum wage jobs [Re: unknown1123]
#19002491 - 10/20/13 02:14 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Re: I have a BA Degree from a good college but am applying to minimum wage jobs [Re: Shroomism]
#19003367 - 10/20/13 10:59 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Re: I have a BA Degree from a good college but am applying to minimum wage jobs [Re: unknown1123]
#19003443 - 10/20/13 11:21 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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I got sick of making crap wages so I followed the sheep and with little training got a job working in the oilfield industry, now I'm up over $120,000 a year, but gone for 9 days or longer at a time...not sure where you live, but Mining and Oilfield jobs are pretty much booming all over, as we rush to profit from the destruction of our planet :p
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Re: I have a BA Degree from a good college but am applying to minimum wage jobs [Re: unknown1123]
#19003457 - 10/20/13 11:26 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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unknown1123 said: Brokers and agents are two different things.
Best side job is to be just a lister. 3% comish for nothing 
This is completely ignorant. There is no such thing as a "lister" and they don't do nothing.
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Re: I have a BA Degree from a good college but am applying to minimum wage jobs [Re: unknown1123]
#19004321 - 10/20/13 03:02 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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unknown1123 said:
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Moonshoe said:
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unknown1123 said: Shut it paul
Is that a reference to paul from aqua teen hunger force?
if so 
or is a reference to the biblical paul?
No, reference to you being pawpaw back in OTD
Pawpaw? What does that mean?
OTD is the one forum I never go to.
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Re: I have a BA Degree from a good college but am applying to minimum wage jobs [Re: Moonshoe]
#19004324 - 10/20/13 03:03 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Moonshoe said:
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unknown1123 said:
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Moonshoe said:
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unknown1123 said: Shut it paul
Is that a reference to paul from aqua teen hunger force?
if so 
or is a reference to the biblical paul?
No, reference to you being pawpaw back in OTD
Pawpaw? What does that mean?
OTD is the one forum I never go to.
You know... pawpaw.... every one knows what that means.
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Re: I have a BA Degree from a good college but am applying to minimum wage jobs [Re: lifeiswhatyoumake]
#19004343 - 10/20/13 03:09 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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I have no idea. Are you guys messing with me? Because I have no idea what you are talking about .
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Re: I have a BA Degree from a good college but am applying to minimum wage jobs [Re: Moonshoe]
#19004349 - 10/20/13 03:10 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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I will probably get stuck in pizza when I graduate, with damn near 40k in debt Scares the shit out of my bro
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Re: I have a BA Degree from a good college but am applying to minimum wage jobs [Re: Almond Flour]
#19004384 - 10/20/13 03:18 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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I know a girl who has 40 000 in debt and she dropped out in the last year of her degree , never even graduated.
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Re: I have a BA Degree from a good college but am applying to minimum wage jobs [Re: Moonshoe]
#19004467 - 10/20/13 03:39 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Moonshoe said: I have no idea. Are you guys messing with me? Because I have no idea what you are talking about .
I'm just messin' with you haha.
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Re: I have a BA Degree from a good college but am applying to minimum wage jobs [Re: bearlion] 1
#19004910 - 10/20/13 05:27 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Well speaking personally, I never went to college and have been busting my ass in jobs for the past 10 years in my general field (computers), working my way from nothing.. and am almost in Product Management for a respected PC company and make a pretty decent salary. Nothing too crazy, but enough to live comfortably in SoCal. In my field, experience, knowledge and certifications usually trumps a college diploma with less experience. For my current position, I was chosen over another person with a degree, due to my experience. Another certification or two and I can advance into IT/Network Engineering and make even better pay.
Now that's certainly NOT going to be the case everywhere, a lot of positions won't even consider you without a degree. But a lot of times I have found they are willing to overlook that, if you have the equivalent prerequisite knowledge and years of experience or an impressive resume.
But really.. now you have the degree, now you just have to get out there and get your feet wet and get some experience under your belt. Apply everywhere, and never stop looking for work in YOUR field. You just have to be really persistent. If you can at least get your foot in the door at some good company, you can start to prove yourself and work your way up the chain. Just gotta really put yourself out there and not give up.
I always refused to work a shitty min wage fast food job... mainly out of pride. But I also wanted to actually ADVANCE in my field and not work some completely unrelated job that I hated. (although I inevitably had several). But when I didn't have a full time job, I was out trying to hustle side jobs, doing computer repairs on the side, helping old people, putting ads on craigslist.. manual labor.. whatever it took.. all in the meantime applying everywhere I could.
Opportunities are out there, but they usually don't just fall in your lap. You really have to work towards them and CREATE opportunities for yourself. Make a goal.. and stick to it. Start small somewhere and work your way to the top. Step at a time.. Just gotta be really persistent
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Re: I have a BA Degree from a good college but am applying to minimum wage jobs [Re: Moonshoe]
#19004944 - 10/20/13 05:36 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Moonshoe said: I know a girl who has 40 000 in debt and she dropped out in the last year of her degree , never even graduated.
This is why there should be strict requirements for admission.
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