In this province, minimum wage is a despicable rate. in looking for jobs, I’m seeing so many gigantic, multi-million dollar companies offering minimum wage for jobs that require a post-secondary education. What the hell is this about? Greed, I guess.
Looking for work in the province sucks. Fuck this shit is depressing. —Bitch Bitch Fuck Fuck Fuck
This article appears in Dec 8-14, 2011.
jobs that require a post secondary education? You really don’t know what that’s about? Life is busier now than it was 20 years ago and what time could be spent training back then has to be spent in production now.
Most min wage jobs DO NOT require a university or college education, actually. I’d love to see examples of this.
Get roommates, lower your spending, eat at home and make your own coffee. And if you still can’t make ends meet, get a student loan and go back to school.
Skills like graphic design and programming don’t even require an education. Why not hit google and train yourself? Not everyone can do these things. But if you have the talent or brains to do these things, you can learn them yourself.
NS is above several provinces.
Province General Wage
Alberta $9.40
BC $9.50
Manitoba $10.00
New Brunswick $9.50
Newfoundland $10.00
NWT $10.00
Nova Scotia $10.00
Nunavut $11.00
Ontario $10.25
PEI $9.60
Quebec $9.65
Saskatchewan $9.50
Yukon $9.00
$10 is a great minimum wage, especially considering you pay little to no tax on it. Back in my day it was $5.25 an hour. Consider yourself lucky, I had to work 25 hour days and I used to start work at 4 am, 1 hour before I got off work the next day!
A Trade would stand you in better stead when looking for work, this from a fucking idiot who never got a trade or went to Uni but is happily retired, so what the fuck do I know?
Would you rather move to Indonesia and sew Nike sneakers for 1 cent a day?
Here’s a little story that illustrates your dilemma (with thanks to to no_fool for reminding me of it). Awhile back, I was camping with some buds when a friend performed an impromptu skit.
Picking up one of those ubiquitous “Life is Good!” baseball caps, he sits down and says (in a wondering voice) “What means this…life is good?” Whereupon he switches roles, becoming the supervisor miming a whip hand, “Keep sewing, Chang! Yours is not to question why. Your job is to sew, damn it!”
Listen, kid. Just because every barista in Hali is ABD (all but dissertation) doesn’t mean it’s a requirement for the job. You are clearly looking in the wrong places.
When I pay minimum wage, it means that:”If I could pay you less, I would.”
If you have a degree and are working for minimum wage, there’s something wrong with you. No one with a degree would accept minimum wage. Friends and I am used our degrees to walk into salary jobs here in HRM. The jobs are there…..you likely just don’t have the connections to get them.
OP, it looks like you are 5 times likely to have a different problem than education, if you are unable to find employment that pays more than minimum wage.
Check out the statcanada stuff that i found….
“Those with less than a high school diploma were
almost five times as likely to be working for minimum
wage or less as those with at least some
postsecondary training—1 in 8 compared with 1 in
35. Four in 10 minimum wage workers did not have a
high school diploma, compared with 1 in 7 for all
employees. This corresponds with the high rates of
minimum wage work among young people, many of
whom have not yet completed their studies.”
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/studies-etudes/75…
Actually GV hits the nail on the head. That’s what minimum wage is, the least the employer can pay you hence the “minimum”. It acts as an incentive to move to greener pastures. You’re right though OP, they tend to be the hardest, most underappreciated jobs.
Jebus! I remember my very first part time job, (Burger Fling), I was making min wage and back then it was $3.25/hr. At 14 years old, I thought I had the world by the cajones. Then I saw my first paystub…”Who is this EI fella and why is he takin’ all my money??” lol
OMG I can’t believe how old I just made myself sound! Ugh!
“And I used to have to walk to work, 50 miles uphill, both ways, in 6 feet of snow with nothing but my pajama pants and my Dad’s rubber boots. Times were hard back then. A-yuh! And we liked it, dammit!”
Oops! I guess back then it would have been the “UI fella” no the “EI fella” lol
They say the mind is the first thing to go….
who is it? my first real job was $2.75/hr, i washed dishes at the dundee arms motel in ch’twn. do you know if it’s still there avasto?
my first min wage job was 6.25 / hr, I do believe…
and my sweet, drunken jebus did it ever suck.
$7.15 for me, I beat you all!
Still there Painy.
http://www.eden.travel/dundee
What a small world, eh? lol
I think min wage was $8 or 9 something when I had my first (and only) summer job.
the people i originally worked for are long gone, but they were really nice. the chef was an awesome young woman and i helped her with the food prep, i learned a lot
I don’t think many gigantic, multi-million dollar companies make the mistake of setting up in this shit hole… sorry OP. The only gigantic million dollar “company” who has set up shop here is the NDP government. Apply for a government job – lol
I can’t remember my first wage.
I know it wasn’t alot, I worked part time after school & 8 hours each Saturday, take home was $125.00 every 2 weeks…I thought I was really making it lol
Odd but what I do remember very clearly
I remember when I was 17 you could buy 2 draught for $.75 at the Red Lion Tavern in Dartmouth !
I was big for my age & had a mustache by that time.
My first min.wage job was delivering prescriptions on my bike for $2.50 p/hour for a pharmacy located across the street from Howe Hall on Coburg. What was its name!? Old age sucker-punches me every now & then and my memory drops out completely 😉
Do kids still deliver prescriptions? Hell, they don’t even deliver newspapers nowadays.
wow, foth, you must be really old^^
it was o’briens pharmacy and i worked for them as a stock boy under the table too.
hahahahahah good times
My first job was $14 /hr shoveling snow at the neighborhood shopping mall. It was hard work and not many hours. The average kid would quite before having to clean up after a heavy snowfall. I think he paid me extra to keep me.
So, KillBrindi and F.O.T.H. – when you worked there, was there a large and intimidating European lady who worked the cash and couldn’t quite conceal her loathing for college students. No matter what denomination of bill you paid with, would always ask “You got anything smaller” as if she was demanding identification papers at Checkpoint Charlie.
Kids delivering prescriptions… Seems like a terrible idea nowadays!
I know, Mel-my Mum used to have to get her dad a box of cigarettes round the corner-can’t do that anymore, either!
So far, I’ve got you all beat vis. first wage. I was beginning to feel like an ancient crone until I checked US vs Canada minimum wage: Canada has always had a higher average. Today, Massachusetts min. is only $8/hr.
Combining that fact with my parents immigrant work ethic (my bros and I had jobs at 14, nice house notwithstanding) is the reason my first wage was so low! Not really an age thing at all. Not *really* an age thing at all…mutter, mutter, mutter…
My mom told me to tell y’all that she started at $1.85/hr when she started workin’ at the ripe ol’ age of 18 at Woolco.
heh.
Also: vastie how old ARE you? 😛
lol Well, PK, I could tell you….but….then I’d have to kill you….after…you know, taking my glucosamine and prune juice, of course. (I’m pretty much useless before my morning BM.) Then there is the whole chore of lacing up my snazzy anti-arthritis, orthodic shoes. (What a PITA THAT is.) And speaking of pains in the backside, my lower back is 85% man-made…(little gift from Gerry during dubya dubya 2.) By this point, I have to check the ole catheter, to make sure nothing’s a-pullin’ or a-tuggin’ (that REALLY pisses me off! HA!)
So, by now…*sigh*…ahh ya know what? Screw it. It’s almost time for my nap anyway. How’s about we try this tomorrow, hun? Would that be alright?
BTW…how old are YOU?
the bear is really old, his first job was in 1971, at ponderosa $1.30/hr
Xeno, I’d take the 8 bucks an hour over our 10 simply because
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales_taxes_i…
versus our 15%.
not to mention the insanely low income tax rate
http://swz.salary.com/salarywizard/layouth…
“If your income range is $0 and over, your tax rate on every dollar of income earned is 5.3%”
I make above minimum wage as a manager of a retail store and let me tell you after rent, power, gas, insurance food and cable/internet Im not left with much at the end of the month.
I make above minimum wage at my job and let me tell you after mortgage, power, gas, insurance, Hummer payment, weekend trips to the cottage,weekly massages, food, cable/internet/iphone and 3-5 take out meals per week. Im not left with much at the end of the month. Fucking greedy corporations leech their profits from my work otherwise I could be living very comfortably by now.