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Comment on Minor league baseball players exploring unionization as they continue to battle low wages in ~sports.baseball
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Comment on Are you satisfied in your career choice? in ~life
Brockward Link ParentI live in Snohomish County, which is the County right above King County, where Seattle is. So there's some gentrification going on here, and the cost of living has gone up as a result. Right now...I live in Snohomish County, which is the County right above King County, where Seattle is. So there's some gentrification going on here, and the cost of living has gone up as a result.
Right now we're seeing 1BR apartments peak at about 1,100-1,300 USD, and good sublets for about 700 USD a month. The housing market is high right now too, though it looks like the bubble has stopped growing, and things are starting to drop. We'll see what happens.
I average close to 30 USD/hr with tips, and get about 30 hours a week. I'm also taxed at 30 USD/hr on minimum wage, so my paychecks are pretty miserable, haha.
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Comment on Are you satisfied in your career choice? in ~life
Brockward Link ParentOh wow yeah the substance abuse thing in the music industry is nuts. There's so much drinking, it's absurd. Weed wasn't a problem, cocaine was a minor problem, opiates were rarely a problem, but...Oh wow yeah the substance abuse thing in the music industry is nuts. There's so much drinking, it's absurd. Weed wasn't a problem, cocaine was a minor problem, opiates were rarely a problem, but the amount of people who were drunk all the time, even in the studio, is insane. Artists and engineers a like. I knew an engineer who would take a swig out of a bottle of vodka in the middle of a session, and this is someone who's supposed to be a professional at the top of his field.
It's really not comfortable to be around, man. I don't miss being in an environment were being an alcoholic is okay. Gotta figure after a while that becomes normal, and that's a positive of getting out of that field.
But like you said, there are avenues in the audio industry that are sweet gigs. Glad your mate found one, hopefully I'll fall into one too, haha.
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Comment on Are you satisfied in your career choice? in ~life
Brockward Link ParentWhat's the hierarchy even like in the massage therapy world? Like, what's the tops in that field?What's the hierarchy even like in the massage therapy world? Like, what's the tops in that field?
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Comment on Are you satisfied in your career choice? in ~life
Brockward LinkI went to school to be a pro-fesh-in-oll audio engineer. Did it full time for about two years, but the money was shite. Ended up working in restaurants, again. Being a restaurant server is better...I went to school to be a pro-fesh-in-oll audio engineer. Did it full time for about two years, but the money was shite. Ended up working in restaurants, again.
Being a restaurant server is better money than being an audio engineer was, so I guess I'm stuck. Been back at the restaurant thing for like four years now. It's all right. Pay is decent for the hours I work, but not a lot of hours, like 30 a week. It can be a stressful job, and can make you feel asocial when you get home, but there are worse fates.
I enjoy the free time my current job offers but would like something with more secure and consistent money.
I used to play junior sports, in the lowest tier possible of the sport I played, haha, and yeah dude like, I knew I wasn't going to make it professionally, so I was just like, along for the ride, but holy shit dude looking back what a fucking scam. What a HUGE SCAM.
Take young people out of what's going to give them the opportunity at an actual career later (which is school and education), to break their bodies and give them what has to be like 1/1,000 chances of making it to the big show to cash in on that sweet pro salary.
And like, these are wide eyed teenagers right? They don't have any life experience, they're not thinking how their wrists are going to feel when they're 30 and are behind a computer all the time, or how their knees are going to feel standing on their feet all day, at a manual labor job or something else. They're excited and are gunning for it with the wreckless abandon that only a teenager can go at something with. They have parents who care about them, and don't want to let them down, and see how much their kid cares, so can't help but feed his enthusiasm. Their kid is really good, all the coaches and rave about them. They can't deny them their chance.
The most common outcome are parents with drained savings, and a kid in their early 20s who's super strong who has developed one skill his whole life, and can't make a living doing it. So they get themselves into trouble, booze is cheap and plentiful, or they leave the juniors to make squat in the minors, often both.
What the hell sort of life are we offering these people? We tell them to train like a professional athlete from their early teens to their mid twenties, break their bodies, deny them education in the process, then offer them a pittance because to play to 100s of people in the minors.
Like, I ain't a fuckin' great restaurant server, but there's more than 2,000 server jobs in the country. Imagine if in your field, only the top 2,000 at it got an amazing salary, and everyone else got 5% of that, and that there was so much demand, that everyone was trying to compete to get one of those 2,000 gigs, despite the fact there's almost no chance of making it. That's a scam!
If being stellar at athletics and not making it to the pros sounds difficult, and you have to fall back on that 10k salary, try doing it on the womens side! God speed with that. Even Olympic athletes get forgotten sans that one week every four years, which most athletes only go to once, then they go back to their layman jobs.