$15-20K/year FT position

If you don't appreciate that, it's still on you to find something else.

 

That's not what Doc was saying. He was saying we should "appreciate our jobs". As if we should be grateful we're in the business.

 

Bank tellers barely make above minimum wage and not everyone can just pack up and move. Some of us have life circumstances that keep us where we are.

And weren't you the one who said we all should be working unpaid overtime as an investment in our future? What you don't seem to get is that there is no future in this business. So, someday when you find yourself working as a bank teller and counting down the days until you're replaced by an ATM because your paper said "thanks for the unpaid overtime, here's your pink slip," you'll be wishing you'd treated your newspaper job as a business. Just like your bosses did.

 

Because it's so easy to just find something else. Just wave a magic wand.

Take a look at the "Getting out of the business" thread. You'll see a lot of posters who've struggled for a very long time before they found their "something else".

 

So, whose responsibility is it to find you a job that you DO "appreciate?"

 

Mine are, too.lol

 

I think you guys really just like to vent and bitch on here. Fair enough. But if you were being honest with yourself, you'd get another job.

 

Every day you don't look is another day it will take to find something else.

 

What makes you think I, and others on here, aren't looking?

It's damn hard to get hired, for anything.

 

So then what are you bitching about? If you can't or won't move, and you're above working your way up from an entry-level position in a different industry, then it sounds like you're lucky to have a job that accommodates both your inertia and your sense of entitlement.

I do treat it like a business, which was the meaning of that comment in the previous thread, which flew right over your head. And I'm appreciative at the same time. They are not mutually exclusive.

You "treat it like a business" but yet you don't appreciate the job and see no future in it? If you are telling the truth then you are a terrible businessman.

 

I think by "appreciate our jobs," Doc means that — once in a (rare) while — we actually contribute something to the community besides just money in a business owner's pocket. Even after 21 years of low pay, sexual favors for car dealers and reporting slanted by the owner's politics, I still believe that.

Although I may bitch and moan about it from time to time, I'm still playing that violin on the Titanic, and playing the best I can.

 

The gold medal factory is going to be busy grinding them out this week for all the people who really appreciate their jobs.