The other week, one of the aides was saying that her husband couldn't find good work, so he went back to school for multiple degrees in business that set him back maybe like $60,000 in debt, and he was getting job offers for full-time work at maybe $20,000 a year, though he's now finally got one consulting offer that pays like $40 an hour.
One of the other aides who's (Ethiopian) had lost her parking lot attendant job that paid $18 an hour a few years ago after working there a decade, so she had to go to school to get a Certified Nursing Assistant license, with which she makes either minimum wage or $14 an hour if she's the one passing out medications that day, though she's lucky since her and her son got lotteried into public housing and they only pay like $400 a month in rent.
I then was telling people about how all the jobs in retail are getting chopped up into "on call" positions so you can't count on 40 hours a week at minimum wage, and my one (Mexican) coworker and one of my (Tibetan) coworkers were surprised to hear that that made our job relatively desirable and a "good job," even though it's minimum wage.
The more you press down and look into it, jobs are total crap nowadays and no-one can do anything about it, and if there's any noticeable movement it's in the liquidation of good jobs into part-paying temporary ones that pay crap.
Honestly, if living expenses go up any more while wages stay flat, we're going to hit a crisis point with people losing housing and whatnot, it's that bad, from everything that I can see.
It's like the workers in Silicon Valley who pay to live in people's garages.
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