I've heard zoo keeper can be insanely competitive just to get a $0 internship or even pay money to work there and then the real jobs are also poverty level to work with animals.
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The payment is getting to chill in the capybara enclosure.
Teachers in the US. Hands down.
I call your βteacherβ and raise it to βsocial workerβ.
Librarian.
In sweden it needed 4 or 5 (or 4.5?) years of uni, only to have a hard time even getting a job, a job paying really low.
Same in Canada. Good choice.
Teachers for sure. Highly educated people providing a service that's absolutely crucial for everybody and they're paid like shit even before you consider the number of out-of-work hours they end up working.
That may only be western teachers. One of my family has been living in Sweden and teaching yr5 (only) for about 22 years. I'm pretty sure
- the state pays for supplies, but I know she doesn't
- she pretty much has the lesson plan set, with some evolution each year
- swedish kids aren't total assholes as they have support for some of the big causes of assholish kids (unaddressed learning issues)
- she's good to retire in three years. Already has a little boat!
She got her ticket in Canada and bounced around a bit until she landed this gig. Couldn't be happier for her.
Unfortunately not a more universal experience :( here in the UK teachers are treated like crap
It's the worst of all angles... Professions where the professional loves the work and wants to do the work no matter what get exploited more than most AND with public school teachers, they're stuck with taxpayer decided budgets....
As far as America goes: I WANT EVERYTHING AND I DON'T WANT TO PAY TAXES FOR IT!
We could take away Elon Musks obscene wealth, leave him with enough to experience no material change in quality of life, and pay every other american who isn't him $7,000k. And he's just one of 735 billionaires. We could tax the shit out of these people and neither they nor us would notice a difference at time, but then when it was time to provide social benefits from government programs, everyone would notice "wow. Doesn't this country work so much better? Look at all the things we can fund!"
$7,000k? Is that $7,000 or $7,000,000? 7,000 thousand?
I meant to put $7k
That makes sense.
I don't type good sometimes when I'm on the go and I make things redundant. In this case it even changed the meaning. I tried to go edit my comment but I got back a 500 error
Biology, unless you go into health related stuff.
Teachers and social workers
Pilots. It's been some time since I read about it. I read some of the small puddle jumper pilots make so little they qualify for SNAP. Sure flying the big boys makes a bunch of money though.
This has changed quite a lot. Starting pay at regional airlines varies, but it is close to $100,000/year now.
This all happened right after the pandemic. Airlines did a lot of early retirements because nobody knew how long the industry would be in the dumps. As it turns out, there was a ton of pent up travel demand, so not only did airlines have to attract people to replace the retired pilots, but also for growth.
You're right, though. It used to be closer to $20,000/year back in 2005, and only went up slightly over the 15 year period leading up to the pandemic.
Canadian FAs/Stews are under the poverty line due to the "no go no dough" employment rules. Maaaassive scam by the airlines.
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