I once mentioned at my last job that $600/week was my desired pay - which I was getting fairly regularly there.
Been with QT about 3 months now and regularly pulling $350/week π
I need something better but the problem with that is there's nothing better. I could apply to be a seafood stocker or meat cutter at HEB (since those are the only positions they're hiring for right now), and make a whole $2 more an hour, but for what quality of life improvement? And the drive to HEB and back every day would probably eat up that extra $2 anyways. I could apply at Best Buy. I applied once before and they emailed me about an interview but it got filtered to my spam so by the time I saw it the time window had expired. I'm sure if I applied again and explained in some remarks column that I'd missed their previous emails due to spam filtering, they'd hear me out. I might also make a whole 1-2 dollars more and hour, but at least I'd be working around techology and stuff kinda? Though from what I've seen most Best Buy employees' jobs boil down to selling phones and phone plans which is weird to me, you wouldn't catch me dead signing up for a phone plan at a fucking Best Buy. Anyways my second job ever was at a Metro by T-Mobile phone store (I had a post about it do severals like a year ago or smthn) and I learned that I am not a good salesman because I have empathy and don't like screwing people over for my own benefit or to meet corporate KPIs so I probably wouldn't last too long if that's the department I got put in.
All the entry level IT and help desk jobs require some sort of certification which I don't entirely blame them for but CompTIA costs $400 just to take the test, and if you actually want a course to learn the material first it's $800, or $1,200 if you want the course that doesn't suck (not kidding, that's how their pricing works, they have a shitty course for poors and a good course for people with more money) so like maybe I can save up towards that but it'll be a while.
I wouldn't mind working for shitty pay at a place like Barnes and Noble, Half Price Books, or Movie Trading Company. If I'm in a cool environment handling cool stuff doing cool things I can bear being exploited. I need to check HPB and B&N's careers sites again, but they're rarely hiring. Movie Trading Company is weird, they don't have a hiring website and don't appear to post job listings anywhere, on their site you're just linked to a PDF application you're meant to manually turn in at the store. I guess I could call the ones around me and ask if they're hiring.
