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RE: Navigating my Way Through Life with "Too Many Interests Syndrome!"
32 years later I have never used my degree for anything.
same thing happened to me.
only it was degrees...plural.
AAS (technical) BS (business) MS (management)
so I took a twelve week course and become a TRUCKER
Actually, I lied.
For a while I worked for ETS online-- grading high school English papers for the California school system.
The job (contract) required "a college degree from an accredited university."
It was a good gig. It started at $18/hr.
Then it became $15/hr.
Then $12/hr.
Then $10/hr.
Then $9/hr.
I bailed when it got to $8.50/hr.
As it happened, they had an increasingly large number of "perfectly qualified" (US college degrees) candidates from the Philippines applying.
sidenote: I always had a problem with hourly wage.
my problem was I rarely got one...I always got paid for what I produced.
for example. If it took me two day, three days, or two weeks to deliver a load...I got paid the same.
(snow storms were a bitch financially).
you can see how that might affect how I feel about minimium wage?
That's v. interesting - I never thought of that before.
Apart from 6 months I spent in a warehouse order picking, I have never had a job on hourly rates either..
I lied - big time !-
my job in adult industry was very much hourly rates ! lmao
I always preferred "piece work," if I could get it... because I was good at figuring out "systems" and how to be most efficient within their structure.
One of my early work life lessons was working at a factory-- doing piecework, checking and boxing hair dryers, of all things (think "inspected by no.43"). Everybody was being paid by the item... but I got... "moved" after a couple of weeks because I was doing twice to 2.5x the volume of many of the old timers... I was about 22 at the time, and needed to fund college.
yup...making the other guys look bad?
I had a buddy once...old oil field hand.
he went to work in a factory for a while...his wife nagged him.
unions...
He could NOT believe how they worked.
He got ALL the work done that they would ALLOW him to do...in the first two hours every day.
then spent the rest of the day building himself a REALLY nice tool box.
They not only allowed it..they expected it..
he had a conscious
he quit after a few months.