Unemployed, uneducated, 24 year old

>Unemployed, uneducated, 24 year old
>Walk into major Forbes recognized financial firm corporate office
>Ask to the office manager
>Offer to work as a volunteer to gain experience in the financial industry
>In need of help, he gladly accepts offering to train me in data entry and giving me a rundown of basic terminologies and practices

2 months later
>After getting a decent feel of the industry, talk to him again, asking if there are any paid positions available
>Offers a $55,000/year entry level job and tells me he appreciates my hard work and wonders why its so rare in millennials today
>Go on Sup Forums
>"WAAAAHHH BOOMERS TOOK MUH JOBS NOW I HAVE TO GO TO SCHOOL AND HAVE 6 GORILLION DOLLARS OF DEBT TO AFFORD A HAMBURGER!"

makes u think....

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>Canada claims the blessing of kek

>NOTHING ELSE

>literally making up bullshit on the internet

>I wrote it on Sup Forums, it must be true

the fact that you were even allowed to take the internship indicates you networked and had connections

you need a college degree and connections to get an internship in any respectable institution which they're able to do because of the inevitable shrinking job market and over-saturation of degrees.

kill yourself.

It took me about 3 months to land a job out of my masters program starting at $65,000. Not great, but not terrible either.

So... you can work without pay for 2 months....

You're not exactly needing that job there Mr. Make shit Up.

$55k a year for entry level data entry.... come the fuck on.

The streets will flow with the blood of the leftists on the day of the rope.

>make well above median income
>"lol not great am i rite guyze"

Rich faggots.

He also spent 6 years of his life and a shit ton of money on his degree

For the effort of getting a masters degree yeah it's not great.

>Things that never happened.

Top cuck they won't let you stay on their premise kid

It doesn't matter.

If you're above median income, have no kids, and live somewhere besides California or New York, your life is gravy.

So wrong, this is how it works

>Beg Mom and Dad for college loan
>Bankrupt parents to go to dream school
>Get dream degree in women studies with double major in Kangz basket weaving
>A job for said degrees do not even exist outside of underpaid student teaching jobs
>"WAAAAHHH BOOMERS TOOK MUH JOBS NOW I HAVE TO GO TO SCHOOL AND HAVE 6 GORILLION DOLLARS OF DEBT TO AFFORD A HAMBURGER!"

I'm legitimately curious. Why do people think making money is hard?

That salary indicates Boston Type east coast or CA. Salary too low for NY. Shit pay in those areas for everything he did

I think it matters a lot
I know someone making $65,000 right out of trade school. They didn't spend a ton on their education. That's gravy. But the dude with the masters probally has to pay off a 6 figure student loan.

>I think it matters a lot

It doesn't, though.

$65,000 per year is more than enough to polish off any debt quickly while living a relatively posh lifestyle without kids or a spouse.

Says the delusional kid who doesn't live in the real world.

I don't think you understand how much of his salary is going to get eaten up by taxes.

Which is why for single guy it's better to get easy as fuck job 40-50k range with 4 year degree.

Jump for great opportunity and if not wait til marriage m8

If you're complaining about making tens of thousands of dollars above the median income, then you're probably an idiot who can't manage money or a richfag with a gay instagram account.

He's in his mid 20's, time to start looking for a wife

I make $90k out of undergrad and live in FL

I often wonder how much people would kill just to be in my position, and then think how little work I do to maintain or advance my position. There are suffering people who work blue collar jobs their entire livs and make a fraction of what I make. Feels privileged man

Why would people lie on the internet?

what job and what degree do you have?

That's one thing that's funny about it. I've been working as a cook since I was 18 busting my ass 12 hours a day for $11/hour so I was amazed at how much people in "real" jobs get to slack off for what I see as amazing pay rates, then complain.

Feels real good.

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My IQ is below 100. I have no skills on certified paper. No work experience in my adult years. No friends. Lack motivation, connections, car, even a bank account.

Some of us are pretty doomed in this modern world of lets find new ways to fuck over the dumb and poor.

I fell for the CS/Software meme

Exactly.

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Canada is a disgrace to the world, even worse than Arabs

Once you get very comfortable, you start taking comfort for granted.

That's why you should never get so clean that you forget what it feels like to be dirty.

I'm making 52k starting in Florida but I got my Masters in Accounting, CS meme doesn't sound too bad

Many businesses are so reluctant to take what you offer. Doesn't help that people need money to live and can't volunteer

>Unemployed, uneducated, 24 year old
>Walk into major Forbes recognized financial firm corporate office
>Ask to the office manager
>told to gtfo
fix'd it for you, retire and die already

What did you do for internships? In FL the going rate for entry CS work is closer to 50-60k

Never had one

Then what did you do to convince anyone you were worth 90k?

He's lying.

Why would someone just post lies on the internet?

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>lol just work for 2 months for free dude

plus it's hard to get unpaid work in lots of jobs since in many circumstances the company doesn't have any work to give that is so non-essential that they can risk leaving it to an untrained intern who isn't even being paid so could half-ass it or quit half way through.

55,000 dollar a year entry level job
>entry level

you really gota sharpen up on y our shit posting proxy leaf.

i made 350k last year. self employed. get skills, be different. skills that make people more money. they'll pay you slightly less to use those skills and pocket the difference. thats' what business is. if you're useless, ofcourse you will get paid shit

>HURR DURR
Despite your situation you must be comfortable otherwise you would have changed it by now.

>Unemployed, uneducated 18-year-old
>Walk into top 5 university
>Ask to tour the campus
>Offer to study for four years to gain experience
>In need of students, they gladly accept offering to train me in a major of my choice

4 years later
>After getting a decent feel for my major, ask if there are any law school positions available
>Offers a three-year program at top 5 law school

3 years later
>$180,000/year entry-level job
>go on Sup Forums
>6'3" Wendy Chef with 9" dick makes same salary
>WAAAAH

Graduated from a Top 10 (I know, meme) school and leveraged another offers. Also, there's little convincing involved because of how many people report their salaries online. So you can see how much a company pays and apply to ones who are clearly expanding/profitable and willing to hire

The big difference between companies that pay like mine and ones that pay 50-60k is often the latter ones are IT sweatshops that hire discount pajeets because they view IT as a cost to be cut. These are the companies that are decimateing the middle class. At my company, the software is the product so you cannot skimp on quality, although we hire plenty of H1Bs and I myself am a pajeet

Also, I gave a good interview where I knew my shit. Apparently they bring in experienced hires all the time that fumble on basic shit like comparing floats in C, and ask to write pseudocode for "find a palindrome," etc

>rack up 40k in debt from slacking on my STEM degree
>tfw do ok starting (48k)
>tfw do income based repayment plan
>tfw only paid $150 on my student loans
>tfw forgiven in 8 years now due to working for a state institution

Student loan debt crying is exaggerated.

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im in my early twenties. to make big time money --- six or seven figures -- you can't work by the hour (generally) but rather need to do something scalable. like software. but forget that for now. you make dick for a living so let me teach you how to at provide for yourself and become VALUABLE. once you're making 75k per year because you are VALUABLE then we can talk about doing something SCALABLE.

here is a verbatim email I wrote to a close friend of mine 3 years ago. It's every bit as relevant today as it was then:

This email is for you and your gf.

To make money as a freelancer you need a marketable skill. For example:

- editing (English)
- creative writing (English)
- graphic design
- ASP.NET programming

Obviously the first two apply to you.

One of the harder parts of freelancing is customer acquisition, so you should utilize existing marketplaces and build a reputation. Once you've built a solid reputation and have a customer base you're essentially set for life (reputation is the tenure of the self-employed). This would actually probably be a better use of your time than your current line of work.

For you, the best of these is odesk -- odesk.com/o/profiles/

Click the link above and you can see exactly how much money people are being paid for certain types of work. Then increase the figures in your head -- once you get loyal clients you can profit more by upselling different services, outsourcing your own work, etc. I just bring this up to point out that many of the people on that website are clearing $5,000 USD per month while living in the third world even though their profiles say they charge $7 per hour.

(CONTINUED BELOW... MOST IMPORTANT PART BELOW)

[MOST IMPORTANT PART.. HERE IT IS]

I know you were just joking, but there are no goldmines. People pay the smallest amount that they have to and never more than they can afford, so develop a rare skill that is also immensely valuable. Do something dangerous, unpopular, or difficult. For example, web design for escort services or loan companies is more lucrative than just "web design," and hentai porn artists are never starving artists. Blue collar oil rig workers in Canada clear two or three hundred grand per year. ASP.NET programmers never have to worry about money.

So, what can you do, or learn to do, that is also rare and valuable?

Ideally this skill will complement your other long-term plans as well.

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is front-end web development ever paid that much starting salary or is it sweat-shop work?

People pay the smallest amount that they have to and never more than they can afford, so develop a rare skill that is also immensely valuable. Do something dangerous, unpopular, or difficult. For example, web design for escort services or loan companies is more lucrative than just "web design," and hentai porn artists are never starving artists. Blue collar oil rig workers in Canada clear two or three hundred grand per year. ASP.NET programmers never have to worry about money.

So, what can you do, or learn to do, that is also rare and valuable?

If you don't have at least one creative skill that you can perform on the street for tips, you're a failure.

>you networked and had connections
That's how you get a decent job in America. Sad but true

Depends, {Facebook, Amazon, Google}'s primary product is front-end web development. But you can also be stuck doing "front-end web development" for internal websites and low/no-growth businesses, so that would be a sweatshop. It comes down to, do you work on the product that the company sells, or are you a discount resource doing maintenance work, that some MBA views as a cost to be cut.

How did you eat for 2 months?

>Offer to work as a volunteer to gain experience in the financial industry
Working without earning money?

Are you retard?

Looks like we Canadians are the chosen ones

>Unemployed, uneducated, 24 year old
>Walk into major christain charity in my city who have shelters, food banks, op shops etc
>Ask to themanager
>Offer to work as a volunteer to gain experience in the industry
>interview process and trial of 3 weeks, finally accepted as an ongoing volunteer in the food bank

6 months later
>work three times a week, volunteer, people appreciate and reccomend me
>ask manager if there are any paid positions, at various times
>he said they don't generally shift volunteers into paid positions and normally paid people they hire have degrees in social work in some shit
>which would make sense except
>these people literally do the exact same shit I do, I work alongside them ffs, I direct some of them

oh well, looks good on my cv I guess. I don't want to university debt-cuck myself just to get the same fucking job though that's ridiculous

I gained experience working in the soup kitchen (cooking serving etc), and some mens shelter experience plus op shop retailing which is valuable I suppose

this 'millenials are afraid of hard work' is bullshit imo. tonnes of people want work here I'd literally take any job. I applied for mcdonalds they said I was one of 150 applicants

I also volunteer at a charity junkyard but there's no hope of paid work there. it fills the day and adds to my cv as well though. I might just buy a fucking van and start buying cheap shit at garage sales and selling it online there's no other cucking jobs

op you're just extremely lucky your post is basically " just give em a firm handshake and bootstrap your eye contact FIRM and you'll make ceo in 2 weeks max 4.5 mil starting"

He sucked Dick. -that's how he got the job too.

Sage.

>work hard
>get money
>lazy poor people bitch that they are poor
MAKES U THINK

What's it like being dethroned?

Why is this shit always computers, why is it always computers with you fucking people? CS, IT, programming, web design, graphics design. Jesus fucking christ, does anyone here do anything not related to fucking neckbeardy computer shit?

Yeah that is complete bullshit

Also how did this fictional character survive spending all his time working for free? Where did his food monies come from? How did he pay rent and bills?

>I was too stupid and lazy for Uni/college, stop getting ahead of me REEEEEE

That's what hobbies are for.

dangerous, rare, or difficult, pick 2 or 3. or honest to god even 1.

let's rank some jobs real quick.. based on whether they have 1, 2, or 3 of the above

general blue-collar workers - 0
fracking rig workers - 2-3
offshore rig workers - 3

some random php programmer - 1
programmer with expertise in rare framework or machine learning or rare language - 2

guy who drives a truck of goods long-distance from point a to b - 1 (rare)
guy who flies a plane of goods from point a to b - 2 (rare,difficult)
guy who drives some drugs cross-country or over a border - 2-3

1 = okay paying job
2 = great paying job
3 = amazing paying job

it's really not rocket science. how to build a life for yourself where you make money is the kind of straightforward logical question that you autists should be good at.

This

>Data Entry
>Terminologies
>$55K
>d a t a e n t r y f o r 5 5 , 0 0 0 d o l l h a i r s

Median income for males is 60k dumbass.

The beginning of Cocktail is the author trying to do this and getting rejected, in the 80s, when the industry was exploding.

> data entry

is neither rare, difficult, or dangerous.

but it can be valuable. a bank doing billion dollar deals or a fortune500 company doing accounting or even a shady fly-by-night mafia-run payday loan scam could well, over the short term, pay 55k per year for data entry. OVER THE SHORT TERM,

Over the long term, though, like i said above "People pay the smallest amount that they have to and never more than they can afford, so develop a rare skill that is also immensely valuable". Over the long term you will be fired from that 55k job and replaced by someone working minimum or less than minimum wage. because it's data entry and you're paid the least they are able to pay, not paid the amount you earn for them.

You're lying big time. I just graduated last year and many of my friends work at Florida. Highest salary was in the Ft. Lauderdale area for 80k.

>Be OP
>Give Jews nearly ten thousand shekels worth of free labor
>Thankful to do so

Let's play hangman: C_CK

>$55k a year for entry level data entry.... come the fuck on.

NYC this makes sense because you will spend 55K on rent to live in a closet and share a toilet with 6 other guys

My mom makes 120k and she's dumb af. If you're not smarter than my mom lets senpai

This may come as a surprise, but chances are if you're posting on Sup Forums you probably spend more time on a computer than most people.

What sucks is once something becomes work it stops being a fun hobby. I used to enjoy fucking around with my computer trying to fix problems for my family or setup some fancy custom build or whatever. Now when I get off work I don't wanna deal with trying to fix anything. If I get an update that fucks up something on my home PC unless its a really easy fix chances are it's staying fucked up for a month. They say if you enjoy what you do at your job then you'll "never work a day in your life" but that's not true. If you make a career out of something you enjoy doing, chances are you'll eventually stop enjoying it.

My parents wanted to live in the bush and commute 2 hours each day to work(dad was a cuck who did anything my mother asked). Very far away from cities and other job secters like mining etc, basically a retirement village for boomers.
So basically a nojobs area, needed a car if i wanted to commute and hell, i'd have to convince someone to hire me for a no skill job, and when you're that far away, you're not exactly "reliable" which is almost all that matters for packing shelves.

Over here, welfare agency's don't consider you an "adult" unless you're 22, or in "extreme" circumstances, which means your parents have to tell you to fuck off, or be mistreating you. Either involves investigation by a social worker.(If not considered an adult, i'd be ineligible for any benefits because dad makes over six figures)

So I had two options, Military, or University. Got turned down for military because muh Irish last name, so now I'm studying commerce undergrad at a go8 (Ivy league for you guys).

If my parents didn't have the money to send me to uni, i'd be REALLY fucked. I'm very lucky they do.

GOdamit I meant kys

1/10 lowest tier sage bait

>Why do people think making money is hard?
For me it was hard because I spent my 18 - 20s being a degenerate pot dealer. Then when I wanted to put on my big boy pants and be a real man I had such a huge length of unemployment that I couldn't land a job at McDonalds. Literally took me YEARS to land a minimum wage job in my town with putting out resumes for hours every single day.
When I finally did get a job, though, I held on to it and worked my way up the ladder, and then began to hop careers so long as I was getting paid more and had more room for advancement.

TL;DR It's not hard to continue making money, but it's hard to initially start making money.

>Got turned down for military because muh Irish last name
wot

>Got turned down for military because muh Irish last name
What?

Alright cuck time to move to Australia like the rest of you

Wow, congrats user. I misspent my life earning a PhD in something of no value outside academia and doing such a fucking good job of it that I landed a coveted tenure-track position in the sharkfest of the academic job market. I'm only making 40K, the same as the high school teachers nearby who have only a BA. I fucked up. I wish I were you, bro.

>2016
>working for the financial jew to prop up the actual mark of the beast

Fuck you traitor. I'll stick to doing honest productive work to feed my family.

I'm curious about this post.


You made a point to specify that you didn't have any work experience in your adult years. This implies you have had work experience though. What work experience have you had? How long ago was it?? What caused you to leave your job(s)

The blue collar workers I worked with were making 70-80k so i don't cosset them just good. The irony is that blue collar factory worker that are honest and hardworking and most importantly young are in high demand. I was marveled to hear that my process engineering peers were worried that they won't have the same type of dedicated factory employees or mechanics in the future.

how the fuck did you get that job?

what does your resume look like?

This plays out exactly like a tumblr post that never happened

Had an elderly Brit officer who had recently transferred for the last portion of the interview, It's more of a formality than anything, they'll just ask you what you know about current Australian engagements, the equipment you'll be using, will run over the aspects of the role you're applying for(aswell as relevant time in training etc) just to make sure you know what you're signing up for, pretty hard to fail. Most rejections that occur here are usually more of a result of DFR not believing you're fit enough or if there are too many applicants for your role at the time.
So that goes over well, I had gone over everything a thousand times but in the end I just get "Alright kid, well, I don't think you're quite ready, I'm going to lock your application for 18 months, you'll be free to apply again then"
Normally I wouldn't assume too much behind motivations but 18months is a longer than typical reapplication time, and he made a snarky comment about what my private catholic schooling had done for me prior

Apologize for the long reply, it wouldn't quite make sense if i were to omit much for this argument.

Apologies*

pro-tip: when they say you're one of 150 applicants

>you're not

>Ivy League
The university of Adelaide is considered Ivy League

I wouldn't be egotistical enough to mention it if I went there, but yeah I get what you mean, it's the closest we can get to a comparison with their systems though.
One of the two in Sydney if you were wondering or cared though.

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WAIT FUCK I WAS AT WORK

Ah alright cheers and I know how you feel about living remote, my parents make too much for me to be getting financial assistance any time soon but we're a large family so we're not rich by any means, pretty much means I have to work for a year to be able to move to the city and go to uni

>ask to the office manager
>ask to the
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you had one job and you fucked it up you cant even COPY pasta you fucking

Reading this makes me glad that I didn't get into grad school.