wanttofire
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Post by wanttofire on Feb 13, 2016 14:53:50 GMT -5
I started in 2004 as a trainee in my field and my pay was $35k. Today trainees start at $52k. I currently make $134k with 20% bonus. The only way I could make that happen was for taking some risks, moving with my job and not afraid to work hard. So in 12 years I have quadrupled my pay and I think I can get goods for cheap if not the same than 10 years ago. Heck, food is cheap, clothing. With sales, coupons you can save a lot of money.
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cronewitch
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Post by cronewitch on Feb 13, 2016 15:16:17 GMT -5
I started in 2004 as a trainee in my field and my pay was $35k. Today trainees start at $52k. I currently make $134k with 20% bonus. The only way I could make that happen was for taking some risks, moving with my job and not afraid to work hard. So in 12 years I have quadrupled my pay and I think I can get goods for cheap if not the same than 10 years ago. Heck, food is cheap, clothing. With sales, coupons you can save a lot of money. That is great to have trainees start that high compared to 2004 they must be pretty well educated. When I retired I was making about 45X as much as I was on my first job but a person starting now would make about 6 times what I made, houses are up from about 15K to 200K for the same type home so no beginner could afford then or now but I could rent then for $67 a month and now it is over a thousand for a studio apartment. Now it seems to make equivalent to what I got after high school you need two years of college. Off shoring manufacturing would have wiped out my first job as a garment worker by now but a woman sewing could earn two or three times minimum wage with piece work, I was a floor girl so minimum wage.
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wanttofire
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Post by wanttofire on Feb 13, 2016 15:23:15 GMT -5
I said trainees, it is actually accounting trainees. So just fresh out of college.
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phil5185
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Post by phil5185 on Feb 13, 2016 20:59:50 GMT -5
Yes. But the reason for the automation was high labor costs. The steel mills, electronics, automotive, left the US cuz labor costs were driven high by strikes, walk-outs, excess benefits. It became less expensive to pay the one-time cost to automate than tp pay workers. Build and implement the machine - then a 24/7 production output, no lates, no sicks, no strikes, yada.
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