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[Floptical]

How many applications did you have for those jobs?

I probably had around 25 for mine reqs and I hired 8. I'm sure across the entire org we did a couple hundred of them this qtr. Its not a one time thing they are have some sort of job posting for these because it's always going on. I looked and we currently have 14 open this month for various positions in various locations.

 

[Floptical]

I've no problem arguing with you, and you're just some old white guy lulled into conservative complacency after attaining a certain level of comfort.

What knowledge, experience, or authority do you actually have over me in the realm of national economic issues? Being alive for a long time doesn't grant you automatic knowledge.

The national median encompasses your specific niche. These magical jobs supposedly readily available are already represented when comparing median income over the years.

The fact is: median income has remained stagnant for decades. That means that for every positive anomaly (like yours) there is a negative, but overall there is no growth.

Income not tracking with all other factors is prima facie evidence that your argument is utter bullshit.

But yes, I am young and have a confrontational manner of posting, which you may use as an excuse to retreat to your comfortable safe space where you have all the answers. Nobody can stop you from telling the entire country it's their own fault they haven't seen a raise in decades.

Yeah you lost me after old white guy.

 

[Duke]

yeah, Flop ain't white.

 

[Hoff Kinkmeister]

Yeah you lost me after old white guy.

My mistake, old guy.

But it's all very simple math, shouldn't be that hard to follow.

 

[Floptical]

yeah, Flop ain't white.

I'm white but not old. Compared to most of you guys on here I'm way closer to his age than you guys.

 

[Floptical]

How many applications did you have for those jobs?

Also out of all of these way less than 10% are local to the roles they are applying for. They are all willing to relocation. As well as the degrees are all over the place. Very few are IT degrees. We actually have a large number of former lawyers who are in IT now because the money is better.

 

[Floptical]

How many applications did you have for those jobs?

I seemed to have missed @DerHoggz application. He must have been to busy home rolling smokes and complaining about how everything is stacked against him.

 

[APRIL]

I'm white but not old. Compared to most of you guys on here I'm way closer to his age than you guys.

Oh come on... not WAY closer.

 

[Floptical]

Oh come on... not WAY closer.

Well maybe not way but I know I'm closer to his age than I am to @Duke

 

[fly]

yeah, jobs that our parents could get out of high school (if they even finished before joining the workforce) are sometimes asking for a Master's degree to start (that's at least 6 years of higher Ed if you do an accelerated program), and at the cost of college vs minimum wage back then, they really could afford college or a down payment on a house or car from a summer job. rent has also steadily increased not relative to wages, but if we live with our parents after high school, even if we work and/or go to school and even if we pay them *something* to live there, people write thinkpieces about how we are lazy and ruining the rental industry.

most of those thinkpieces can be simplified as "most millenials suffer under crippling debt despite mediocre existence; why are they ruining everything by being poor and/or not taking on more debt?"

Dude, its entirely possible to go to school, get an education, get student loans, get a job, and be successful. There is no ethereal mystery as to how it's done, and its no more or less possible than it was years ago. It's called hard work.

 

[Duke]

Well maybe not way but I know I'm closer to his age than I am to @Duke

Actually, if I'm not mistaken, you're right in between us, assuming Hogz is 24.

 

[Duke]

Dude, its entirely possible to go to school, get an education, get student loans, get a job, and be successful. There is no ethereal mystery as to how it's done, and its no more or less possible than it was years ago. It's called hard work.

And to be quite honest, it's actually entirely possible to do it without a degree too, in some professions.

 

[fly]

The point of that post is those kids are smart enough to go into an industry and location that does that vs trying to stay put. There were plenty of jobs and locations that were great 20-30 years ago but now they aren't. It's like people who try to continue to work in auto, steel, coal, or any industry that's on the decline or being replaced.

GUYS I WENT TO TELEGRAPH REPAIR SCHOOL IN ALAQUIPPA AND CANT FIND MEANINGFUL WORK. #THESYSTEMISRIGGED

 

[Jehannum]

Also out of all of these way less than 10% are local to the roles they are applying for. They are all willing to relocation. As well as the degrees are all over the place. Very few are IT degrees. We actually have a large number of former lawyers who are in IT now because the money is better.

IT actually seems like the perfect place for lawyers. Dickish adherence to the rules FTW.

 

[fly]

And to be quite honest, it's actually entirely possible to do it without a degree too, in some professions.

Of course it is. You just have to work your ass off. A district manager for McDonalds makes like $65k, and probably isn't crying that he can't afford a BMW...

 

[fly]

Or go be a deckhand on a crab boat for a season, and come home with like 100k. But you're going to work your ass off to a level that you didn't even think was possible.

 

[Hoff Kinkmeister]

Actually, if I'm not mistaken, you're right in between us, assuming Hogz is 24.

I'm 6 years older than his daughter. He's old, but I get that that can be hard to come to grips with.

 

[Petunia]

I seemed to have missed @DerHoggz application. He must have been to busy home rolling smokes and complaining about how everything is stacked against him.

 

[august]

Dude, its entirely possible to go to school, get an education, get student loans, get a job, and be successful. There is no ethereal mystery as to how it's done, and its no more or less possible than it was years ago. It's called hard work.

nobody is saying that you don't need hard work for these things, or that with hard work you can't be successful, but there are often other contributing factors to success that others may not have.
and I never meant to imply it was impossible, but it IS harder. the student debt is more massive, the jobs aren't paying as much as they used to relative to the rise in cost of living or the degree inflation that requires higher and higher degrees, there's less room for upward mobility within jobs as boomers are still in those jobs.

if you put in the work, you may be successful, but then again you also may not. or you may be "successful" but not earning enough to stay on top of the student loan debt that got you there.

everyone can succeed, not everyone will succeed, but it's usually a matter if more than just hard work, and to reduce it to a bootstrappy "all you need for success is hard work!" is ludicrous

 

[my little brony]

Also out of all of these way less than 10% are local to the roles they are applying for. They are all willing to relocation. As well as the degrees are all over the place. Very few are IT degrees. We actually have a large number of former lawyers who are in IT now because the money is better.

The point is that you can't act like everyone has the opportunity to get a decent paying job just by relocating solely because your company hired a bunch of people.