What's your profession and how much do you earn?
#16
Posted 19 February 2011 - 06:04 PM
I'm 19, doing some social work as alternative for going to the army. We have conscription here in Germany (though it will be "paused" this summer, so I'm one of the last who either has to go to army or do social work for half a year), thus I have to do that. I'm working in a residental home for mentally sick people. My 'guerdon' is almost 300€ with an additional ~250€ daily subsistence allowance each month. That's actually quite good for a "first job", but the other employees earn 6 times as much for the same work (without the daily subsistence allowance of course), which isn't exactly fair, but well.
Anyways, in April I will start studying law at a german university. I'll likely work part-time than. Unless I can handle without that extra-income, but I highly doubt that.
One of my biggest dreams is to work and live in the USA (in California to be precise, one day), Europe isn't thaaaaaaat great, really. Might get hard with german law, though xD Well, I can still switch to Psychology in winter, I'll see.
#17
Posted 19 February 2011 - 06:21 PM
I have a freelance artist job on the side. Don't make much (I've made close to 100 bucks since I opened it last year. I'm not kidding, ALL of my work has been off of the RH Junior forums. Weird, eh?)
#18
Posted 19 February 2011 - 09:39 PM
I barely make enough to pay bills, but am looking for a better paying position in other companies right now.
Edited by jwex001, 19 February 2011 - 09:39 PM.
#19
Posted 19 February 2011 - 09:39 PM
I dropped out of highschool when I was seventeen and didn't start working a real job until last May, so this is my first job. But I put $1,000 in the bank every check and still have plenty left over to buy guns and help my friend out when she needs it.
It is tiring and painful but it is something I am good at and the pay is good. My first month I had a iron pipe kick up shattering through my glasses into my eye socket busting my top eyelid open so bad I had to get seven stitches. I was finding little pieces of glass around my eye over two weeks later the plastic surgeon did not see and the bone fractures still cause me pain on occasion. Four weeks after I got my stitches out I was inside a tray tower grinding and the guy I was working with started rolling it and my extension cord got caught on a flange jerking the grinder which ended up grinding my left pointer finger open exposing bone. When I am working on scrubbers and have to buff out the inside I usually end up out of breath and coughing up blood and s*** for days four breathing in all the rust and dust in it. Just yesterday I learned my lesson that I should keep my torch striker on my belt when I lit it with my lighter and my hand was so close to the flame it barely touched the top of my thumb, now I have a long blister on it. Luckily like I said it barely touched it.
If I get killed at least I will die with money though.
#20
Posted 20 February 2011 - 04:10 AM
If I get killed at least I will die with money though.
Oh my god, this sounds horrible, I can't imagine all the pain you must've been through. Really, that shocked me.
...I like your attitude, though.
#21
Posted 20 February 2011 - 02:08 PM
I only thought that was bad though. Apparently the guy had put the stitches in too tight and the nurse managed to get two out but called in a different guy to get the rest and he had to pull on them with tweezers to get the little scissors under them enough to cut them, of course my eye was still swollen almost shut so having him pulling on them was hell and they don't give you anything for the pain when they pull them out.
It was great though in a way at least I had a good looking nurse sitting on the bed thing leaning over me watching but do to my eye and the stitches I had to have my eyes closed pretty much the whole time and did not get a good view.
#22
Posted 20 February 2011 - 07:59 PM
#23
Posted 25 February 2011 - 12:55 AM
I work at a nice dinner theatre, and I make $7.25 an hour. I only work about 9-ish hours a week, unfortunately, so I'm poor. Sometimes though, when we're building or striking a show (and not during the run of it) I'll get 30 hours! Out of nowhere! So my checks range from about $60-200 every other week.
hmm do you live at home with your parents? How much does an engineer earn in the U.S.? You can apply in switzerland, with a masters degree or diploma from a good university you can expect around $ 85.000 a year (salary as a freshman, beginning right after university)
No, I have my own apartment, but I have loans that pay for that
#24
Posted 25 February 2011 - 01:32 AM
#25
Posted 25 February 2011 - 04:04 PM
#26
Posted 25 February 2011 - 04:48 PM
I hope to study Computer Programming/Informatics the coming year and afterwards have a reasonable salary.
#27
Posted 24 June 2014 - 04:14 PM
How´s it hanging now for you?
Tell me your stories and what did you accomplish the last years ... or did you?..
#28
Posted 24 June 2014 - 04:35 PM
#29
Posted 25 June 2014 - 12:32 PM
I'm in my senior year of college, and I'll be graduating late, since I haven't been able to afford consistently taking 5 classes to graduate in 4 years, not to mention having to repeat every math since Pre-Calculus II. I'm at least an indie game developer though, and I do earn some money on the side doing cartoon commissions on DeviantArt, with results much like my avatar.
Edited by Koh, 25 June 2014 - 12:33 PM.
#30
Posted 25 June 2014 - 01:59 PM
Short Answer: A helper that gets zero appreciation from anyone outside of the customers.
Long Answer: Got a 4 year degree in business and thanks to the lousy economy, what exactly am I doing? Pushing carts at a grocery store. I'm supposed to just be a cart boy that greets people and helps them load their vehicles, but I'm basically a floral associate, grocery stock clerk, dairy stock clerk, customer courtesy associate and janitor all in one. Or put into their terms, Parcel Pickup / Front End Associate (and yet despite being a college grad I'm apparently not smart enough to run a register???) What do you think I get paid for being pretty much five departments in one? If you guessed minimum wage, have a cookie. If you guessed anything more than that, you get NOTHING! You lose! Good day, sir!
Yeah, so much for a 4 year degree. Doesn't even entitle me to faster advancement or better positioning. You'd think someone with a 3.51-3.52 GPA and a business degree would be doing something a little better than being a cart pusher. Hell, a lot of people my age are desperate for a job. I actually know someone that is 3.5 years with an associate's degree and he can't get a job ANYWHERE. Not even McDonalds.
It took me TEN MONTHS to get a minimum wage job that I don't like but have to deal with because it's all I have. Getting anything in my field was hopeless; several months of trying and zero responses from anyone. Once I lowered my expectations down to "I don't care; just give me a damn job!", I only got two responses in 4-5 months. One was from Sheetz which might as well have said "lel ur overqualified go away scrub". The other was from Weis Markets, which actually did hire me. In retrospect, I should have flat out declined when I found out I was only going to make $7.25/hr. But I took the job out of sheer desperation and knowing I wasn't going to be able to weasel my way out of paying back my loans.
Edited by RedmageAdam, 25 June 2014 - 02:04 PM.
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