Lets go ahead and talk underpaid.

Mysterious_wife · March 2014

Do you want to know what is more underpaid than teachers? Support staff at schools.

I make $7.25 a hour. The same amount as our Para Pros. You know the ones who do just as much as the teachers. Sometimes more. Most of them (at my school) have degrees.

Name your underpaid profession.

gogadgetgo · March 2014

SAHM. Paid in snotty noses and baby puke.

Take that mommy wars

Jags8 · March 2014

Holy cow that is federal minimum wage! What are Para Pros? What do you do as support staff?

Also, federal minimum wage hasn't been changed in almost 5 years. Someone needs to get on that.

Mysterious_wife · March 2014

Para Professional aka teachers assistant.

I work in the cafeteria. I do it for the hell of it. I don't do it for income. I wanted to get out of the house. I am/was a SAHM. I only do a seasonal tax job. I'm currently working both.

raeah219 · March 2014

My little comment really got under your skin didn't it? Again I say, I really wasn't trying to offend anybody

LimaD · March 2014

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This conversation again

Mysterious_wife · March 2014

LimaD said:

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This conversation again

Aren't you cute.

Mysterious_wife · March 2014

raeah219 said:
My little comment really got under your skin didn't it? Again I say, I really wasn't trying to offend anybody

I was the only one sticking up for you

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Jags8 · March 2014

MrsMuq said:

Jags8 said:

Holy cow that is federal minimum wage! What are Para Pros? What do you do as support staff? Also, federal minimum wage hasn't been changed in almost 5 years. Someone needs to get on that.

um, you do know they're currently talking about increasing it to either $9 or $10, to take effect in either 2015 or 2016, right?

Um, no I didn't know that. But ummmm, thanks.

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Jags8 · March 2014

AudeSapere89 said:

@Jags8 I think thats only for new federal workers? Could be wrong though...

What's only for new federal workers?

Mysterious_wife · March 2014

I love when newbs try putting us in our place.

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spalko · March 2014

I'm a vet tech and while I love my job, the pay isn't the greatest for everything that I do on a daily basis. It's a slow day when I don't have to change my clothes due to being covered in some bodily fluid.

Jags8 · March 2014

AudeSapere89 said:

@Jags8. The minimum wage increase for people who work for the government. I dont think its for everyone. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/01/28/obama-to-raise-federal-minimum-wage-in-executive-action-tied-to-state-union/

Oh. I'm not the one who said there was an increase, that was MrsMuq

Jags8 · March 2014

fredalina said:

Raising the minimum wage causes unemployment to spike. Not good timing, to say the least.

Oh interesting, I hadn't thought of it from that perspective.

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orangecrush32 · March 2014

Pharmacy tech. I make a dollar more than minimum wage and our company has placed wages on hold pending the possible increase of minimum wage..which won't actually even effect us because we're not federal employees.

CMichele11 · March 2014

I'm a licensed mental health therapist.I make 20,000+ less a year than my construction worker husband. I know that what he does is hard work, but it is laughable to look at my paychecks. I work non-profit, however, and low pay comes with the territory.

starchai920 · March 2014

I'm an in-home CNA,I make about $10.50. In a nursing home I'd make $12-$14 starting in this area. I'm hoping to make somewhere between $14 and $17 once I get my LPN.

aggiebug · March 2014

For the amount of schooling I have I am underpaid as a veterinarian. Now don't get me wrong I am not complaining I get to do what I love and make a descent living. But it ticks me off when clients assume I am ripping them off so I can live the rich life.

I am also underpaid among my peers but I work 4 days a week no real weekend work so I took the trade off.

Mysterious_wife · March 2014

I was a SAHM. H was the sole provider, making peanuts. If you divided his income between the two of us, it was less than min. wage. We did fine. We had extras. They were few and far, but we had them. Our rent was $400 a month for a two bedroom house. It can be done. Should families be forced to live like that? No. It is possible though.

ETA: we had zero help as far as financial assistance went. We used coupons, family for child care, and watched for deals.

Mysterious_wife · March 2014

We rented from family friends. I'm not sure if we got family discount or what. It was tiny and very outdated. It was home and we could afford it. That's all that mattered.

Mysterious_wife · March 2014

BOOTSTRAPS!!! 8-}

Meery82 · March 2014

Ho-ly shit. I guess I should quit bitching about what I make. I'm curious, for those of you who make at or around minimum wage, what do you do?

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Mysterious_wife · March 2014

Remember the town I moved from had one red light. I would walk outside and find random farm animals on my porch. Very LCOL.

thejucheidea · March 2014

I make $23.46 an hour, and while it sounds like a fair amount, I work in a very specialized and stressful nursing discipline. I know that many other nurses make a lot more than I do, but my company is pretty miserly when it comes to raises. I've been here for almost four years and started at $21 an hour, so I haven't had much salary growth at all despite my responsibilities, patient load and patient acuity increasing exponentially. I honestly feel like I'm not fairly compensated for the amount of myself that I put into my job, but until my husband makes more than I do, I don't feel safe looking around for other jobs.

Jags8 · March 2014

@wife07mom09 I went to college and earned my B.A. I graduated a few years ago and still can't find full time work in my field. I'm working two PT jobs, and that doesn't even add up to 40 hours. I'm pulling in maybe $1100/month. My sisters with only a high school diploma are making more than me working in a factory.

So train and get an education all you want, it doesn't guarantee you a good paying job.

Jags8 · March 2014

wife07mom09 said:

And to the poster who doesn't have a full time job and makes about $275 a week I am not sure if $13k a year is enough to qualify for food stamps so it may be. I know our nanny gets them and we pay her 20k a year part time. So the point here is that there are things to help, use resources temporarily to explore a new career field or find a job with full time hours.

WTF? Why are you telling me to get on food stamps? We don't need food stamps. I'm just trying to show you that your naïve logic is flawed.

orangecrush32 · March 2014

So your answer is go back in time and get a degree where you'll get a job or get on food stamps? Nice.

seells · March 2014

We rent our 2 bedroom apartment (it's older, luckily in a safe neighborhood but definitely at the bottom end of the spectrum) for $1400/month. A nicer 2 bedroom apartment would be closer to $1800/month. A 2 bedroom house would probably run you $2500/month easy.

I make $10.50/hr. I work for a non-profit so it's not surprising. Raises are basically non-existent. So both my paychecks basically go to paying rent. DHs go to paying everything else.

Minimum wage for our city is $8.50/hr.

Mysterious_wife · March 2014

@jags8 I wasn't sure if she was talking to me someone else.

We (mysterious family) never needed SNAPS. It's a little more complicated than "get on food stamps." Stop being a snatch.

Jags8 · March 2014

WhoCanItBeNow said:

Jags8 said:

@wife07mom09 I went to college and earned my B.A. I graduated a few years ago and still can't find full time work in my field. I'm working two PT jobs, and that doesn't even add up to 40 hours. I'm pulling in maybe $1100/month. My sisters with only a high school diploma are making more than me working in a factory.

So train and get an education all you want, it doesn't guarantee you a good paying job.

How come you didn't use your crystal ball to see that there wouldn't be any jobs 4 years from when you started your education? Gawd. Some people and their lack of planning ahead.

Our union guys working out in the field make more than I do after the 4th year of their apprenticeship. They are hurting the first couple years though- they don't make dick and are the first ones cut if there is a lack of work. So low income and short hours. I'm sure that was totally in the brochure when they signed up.

Unfortunately I have never owned a crystal ball. I'm waiting for the repairs to be completed on my TARDIS so I can just go back and choose a different path.

theMadRadishes · March 2014

Raising the minimum wage wont cause unemployment to spike. At least it hasn't been seen in states that have already raised the minimum wage. That being said, this doesn't mean that the value of those few dollars wont slowly diminish within their local economy. That and income taxes are higher, so its kind of a sham. The real problem is salary doesn't usually reflect intelligence or perseverance but has more to do with dumb luck. When it comes down to it I will have a family regardless. My parent had to get creative and I will too.

petemaria · March 2014

Social work...we have master degrees and get paid very little

Mysterious_wife · March 2014

Zombie thread. Dead for weeks

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