A lot of jobs don’t need to exist anymore on top of that in the realm of people making minimum wage. Like servers at fast food places. Or even at this point cashiers at department stores. Or greeters. They’re courtesy hires as it is and not meant to be forever jobs anyway. Even a lot of the Amazon warehouse folks are likely to be replaced by robots.
Jobs like that used to be great for HS kids and people starting out and moms looking for some extra money and people between things. Now laws are fucking all that up and those jobs probably won’t exist for much longer. Big companies can even use Covid and safety as a cover for getting rid of ‘front line essential workers’ at places like Walmart.
In the Bay when they first started raising minimum wage, or requiring people working over a certain amount of hours get health insurance, businesses mostly had less people working shifts at once, and kept their total work hours now under that mark and hired more people to make up the difference, also with less hours. You now had to work 2 jobs to get what you made at 1 because somebody decided you were asking for shitty health insurance that the government also ruined.
And remember that Obama said those jobs weren't needed anymore too and said they would not come back and yet he continued to import unskilled labor from the 3rd world and Joe is doing the same. Watch those jobs I had as a teenager now become highly competative.
I'm in the trucking industry and most of the new drivers are coming from overseas. You can make at least 40k in the first year and top earners make six figures after about 3 years. It is so hard to get millennial Americans into trucking and the ones that do get in don't last very long.
Long haul? I'm considering going for a CDL but not sure long haul would work out well... really don't want to be gone from my wife and kids all the time. But then again I've been mostly unemployed for going on two years now and barely getting by from temp work.
I was in IT for years but now I can't get ANY responses except from Indian "recruiters" looking to ply their H1B scam bullshit.
A lot of jobs don’t need to exist anymore on top of that in the realm of people making minimum wage. Like servers at fast food places. Or even at this point cashiers at department stores. Or greeters. They’re courtesy hires as it is and not meant to be forever jobs anyway. Even a lot of the Amazon warehouse folks are likely to be replaced by robots.
Jobs like that used to be great for HS kids and people starting out and moms looking for some extra money and people between things. Now laws are fucking all that up and those jobs probably won’t exist for much longer. Big companies can even use Covid and safety as a cover for getting rid of ‘front line essential workers’ at places like Walmart.
In the Bay when they first started raising minimum wage, or requiring people working over a certain amount of hours get health insurance, businesses mostly had less people working shifts at once, and kept their total work hours now under that mark and hired more people to make up the difference, also with less hours. You now had to work 2 jobs to get what you made at 1 because somebody decided you were asking for shitty health insurance that the government also ruined.
And remember that Obama said those jobs weren't needed anymore too and said they would not come back and yet he continued to import unskilled labor from the 3rd world and Joe is doing the same. Watch those jobs I had as a teenager now become highly competative.
I'm in the trucking industry and most of the new drivers are coming from overseas. You can make at least 40k in the first year and top earners make six figures after about 3 years. It is so hard to get millennial Americans into trucking and the ones that do get in don't last very long.
Long haul? I'm considering going for a CDL but not sure long haul would work out well... really don't want to be gone from my wife and kids all the time. But then again I've been mostly unemployed for going on two years now and barely getting by from temp work.
I was in IT for years but now I can't get ANY responses except from Indian "recruiters" looking to ply their H1B scam bullshit.