fuck this job.com

...how about NO minimum wage? If there was no such thing as the minimum wage, the market would determine what a fair wage for "x" job would be.

Give it some thought and get back to me.

Anticorporate, you're thinking exactly the way I do about shit wages, who would know better than the Omega Man of wage slavery? The fact that we don't have a true free market economy is the dirtiest sub/supra-liminal secret the United States has possesed since The Gilded Age. Ever since industrialists have had money and power in this country, which would be after they kicked the British traders and industrialists out since the Revolution, the myth has grown. They perpetuated the lie that Puritanical work ethics, never questioning to or bowing to authority, and being a total and complete bitch would be life's greatest reward, when in fact it has kept working class people in bondage for close to 200 years now. The only anomaly in that pattern was the fluke formerly known as the Middle Class. It took a world war of wild war-profiteering in every sector of industry to bring roughly 30-50% of the former wage slaves into a comfortable existence for maybe 32 years tops before the wheel came around and the precursors of today's problems started undoing all the progress and gains. Now we're back to where we were in roughly the late 1800's to the early 1900's in terms of real wages on the lower half of society and the same, "Let them eat cake," attitude from the stockholders, politicians, and CEO's that we had in the Robber Baron Era. Pretty soon we'll see people's health and life-spans going back to the levels of their great-great grandparents', too... Party like it's 1899, right? Except this time around, we don't have a Teddy Roosevelt to punch big business in the nose and protect our natural resources, no Upton Sinclairs or Ida Tarbells to expose the sickening underbelly of corporate profiteering and labor, and progressives are so outclassed by main stream media and the two-party-machine this time around that the will of the people is worth less than our economy on paper... >:( You are right about minimum wage raises, they always get passed onto the consumer, making whatever gains people like me in gray-collar work get worthless when I have to pay more for shit. The raises don't even help those stuck on minimum wage, like they can afford their own health care like the Elephant Rider's want them to, a new car, a real house, or anything new that this shitheaded economy brainwashes them into thinking they need to actualize their existences? I like how everyone at the very bottom got "handed" a $1.25 raise out of nowhere, when at best I can hope for maybe $0.50 a year in raises till I get my degree and a real career. I'm lucky my latest job even pays me $12/hr, but I eat a buttload of expenses in gas because it's in another county. Oh well, life's a bitch, then you die, can't afford a burial because you're poor, then the government wants what's left of your non-existent estate out of your survivor's pockets... Keep it evil.

Tell me you like it
Tell me you like it

You say you've found yourself a new sound
The shit's loaded and ready to go
A bit too much just like the old sound
Already heard it for the hundredth time
One hundred more, all have the same sound
Running around with all the sheep that you know
"It's so sublime, they're breaking new ground"
"They're sure to have another hit this time"

Come on
Can't you just leave it alone?
It doesn't have any soul
Just find a thing of your own
And stop pretending to know

[Chorus:]
As the countless numbers hunger for worldwide renown
All the pimping sons of plunder will roll up their sleeves
All searching for the answers they don't even care to know
Give it to me
Give it to me
You like it?

I'm still surrounded by the "new sound"
I've had enough and I'm ready to go
A strangle-hold throughout the world now
The new obsession will fade in time
A thin reminder of the past now
All convoluted hardly ready to go
Their whines and moans will never last now
I think you've given us our fill this time

Come on
Can't you just leave it alone?
It doesn't have any soul
Just find a thing of your own
And stop pretending to know

[Chorus]

[Bridge:]
As it's blown apart, hundreds thrown away
Makes me question just what I believe
Brothers torn apart, mindless drones enslaved
Makes me search for an answer
I don't want to know
It's like a plague from below
Killing all that I know
One hundred voices the same
Drench their sorrow in flame

As the countless numbers hunger for worldwide renown
All the pimping sons of plunder will roll up their sleeves
All searching for the answers they don't even care to know
Give it to me
Give it to me
As the countless numbers hunger for worldwide renown
All the pimping sons of plunder will roll up their sleeves
All searching for the answers they don't even care to know
Give it to me
Give it to me
You like it?
Tell me you like it
Tell me you like it
Tell me you like it
Tell me you like it

(Disturbed: Sons of Plunder)

I have some bad news, though. Getting a degree and a "real career" will not be some sort of silver bullet or key to opening doors that lead to great wages, increases, etc.

There are no "real careers" unless you've become one of the stock professions: lawyer, engineer, mathematician, or scientist. Otherwise, college graduates are groomed to become good little employees.

I have a degree, 6+ years experience, and still can't manage to find a job paying a decent amount that doesn't involve one or more of the following: being on call 24/7, working lots of overtime, lots of travel, bullshit "team building" activities, or highly specialized computer applications specifically used by company x. One more - sitting in a cubicle or office all day staring at a computer screen.