Antiwork

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I am currently in college and am unemployed. My previous jobs would find me racking in enough money to last a day or two. I have to try and save my money while paying for college and food. 200-300 dollar paychecks aren’t enough if I want to balance school and work. If I wanted to make more I’d have to work well over 40 hours and that’s just not possible being a full time student. So is there any jobs that are decent pay for college students? I don’t mean fast food. I’d rather watch paint dry than do that. Fast Food workers are constantly harassed so I’ll pass on that.

​ https://preview.redd.it/iimq7j4rc4h81.jpg?width=1186&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cfddca9a03355238ee7a565c3bae343549526443 ​ You'll be on call every single moment so you will never get a single moment of peace. And no we're not paying you for all those off-hour stuff you do outside of the stipulated numbers on your contract. But hey at least you have a job amirite?

Longtime lurker first time poster, sorry for the long ass post So I quit my job over the summer to start a business with my brother, took some time off in between, and a good friend contacted me and asked if I could come help out. He manages a quick lube place, and his techs all up and quit one day(painfully obvious why now.) He got in touch and said he would start me at what I was making at my previous job and said it was even negotiable. He said I was worth that much and more but that he couldn’t do much better than that because of the position. I knew it was kind of an entry level position so I was fine with the cap. I mulled it over for a few days and signed on as a temporary thing. One thing led to another and the…

Long time lurker, first time poster. So I was finishing up college in the midwest. It was the spring semester of 2020 and I had accepted a position with a company of a couple hundred people in a small town in the middle of nowhere, hours away from where I was currently living. I asked for compensation slightly above average for grads from my college program. I had pretty good grades and internship experience . I ended up agreeing on $1k less than the average. A month later COVID hits and I get told I would be placed on hiring freeze until August. Alright, I guess just something I’ll have to live with. Well the beginning of June rolls around and I get called and asked if I could start at the beginning of July. But they need me to take a 10% pay cut through the end of the…

I just got a call from a company interested in my resume they found on Indeed (I haven’t updated in a couple years tbh). I work in mental health so my skills and time are chronically undervalued – they offered me the same hourly rate that I started off at – to work with the most severe patients (before you hit hospitalization/incarceration). I have shy of 10 years of experience and advanced degrees. Wtf, I keep telling myself with the state of the world – one thing I’ll always have will be job security…

I have been looking for a job for like a year, and every single advertisement always asks for job experience, how do they expect me to get experience if no one hires me to get experience? I don't know what i am doing wrong… I left high school to get into trades but besides the inhumane conditions where i was away from home for like 13 hours for 400 euros (minimum wage here is 750€), i didn't really like the job (Car Mechanic Assistant), so i decided to leave, but couldn't find any job so i guess I'll go back and finish high school. Im 17 years old so i can't exactly understand what I'm supposed to do? I just want a job where I'm told to do something, do it, get paid fairly and go home… For now I'm living with my parents and I'm going back to high…

I read about a new law in New York that requires employers to include salary ranges for job postings. Luckily my whole industry is funded by taxes so we must be transparent, but I remember being frustrated by this in the past and I wonder: Job seekers: do you find it a waste of time when you interview for jobs only to find out the wages are insufficient? Does the lack of transparency in a company create a lack of trust? Hiring parties: do you find it a waste of time to review and interview candidates who might not have applied if given this information? Would transparency establish more trust and value during a time when companies are competing for labor? How does shielding salary range information benefit the customer, employee, applicant or company as a whole? Why is a law necessary? I’m very curious! Y’all know any companies choosing…