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Nickelodeon exploits desires to work on "dream jobs": Getting in and realizing it paid the same as or less than most retail jobs was horrifying. (labornotes.org)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This is in every industry. It's most companies wet dream to be able to convince their employees that working there is a "dream job".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Yeah, I worked a job for a sports team. (Hmm... Which one?) I was an intern, and working my dream job. Everyone I was working with was passionate about a career in professional sports, but made like $10/hr. Unless you get to the top, people working that job make next to nothing. It would have been cool to make a career out of it, but the money just wasn't there after talking to people who'd been there a few years.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

My wife fell into the same trap...

She wanted sooooo badly to say she "worked for Apple" and got hired by a contractor called ACS doing Apple Care support.

She knuckled down, got her certifications, got promoted to tier 2 tech support... and was making $10 an hour. This was in like 2010.

I was like "Ohhhh... nononono no. Tier 2 + certs? I was making $20 an hour in 1996 as Tier 1 with zero certs."

ACS was a totally abusive relationship. So glad she got out.