• Quazatron@lemmy.world
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      15 days ago

      True. If you get yourself an interesting skill set, either your employer will pay accordingly or you won’t have difficulty finding one that does.

      “Act your wage” is just a poor excuse to normalize laziness.

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    15 days ago

    I mean, yeah, that’s the American dream. I get six figures and work like maybe 3 hours a day on a busy day. When I was 16 I was washing dishes for $5 an hour and it was 8+ hours of constant, hard work, every fucking day

  • MY_ANUS_IS_BLEEDING@lemm.ee
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    15 days ago

    I found this to be true too. 16 years old minimum wage supermarket job: had to work every second of the shift and was micromanaged to hell.

    Now a professional engineer earning almost 10 times minimum wage and I have to pace myself so that I don’t run out of work during the 3 days I’m in the office, followed by 2 days WFH where I rarely have any work left to do.