• Pistcow@lemm.eeEnglish
    53·
    9 months ago

    The 2008 crash I got a job at a call center and was working next to a person with PhD making $10/hr.

    • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafeEnglish
      13·
      9 months ago

      I worked with an Indian gentleman with a MD doing basic labtech work. I have no idea why he settled for it, but it was no stress and he didn’t have student debt so…

    • poppy@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      That was basically my dad, but at the meat counter at the local grocery. :(

      • cybersandwich@lemmy.worldEnglish
        61·
        9 months ago

        Respect for your dad doing what he needed to do. Plus the meat counter had to have some free meat perks, right?

        • poppy@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          9 months ago

          Yep he had a kid to feed couldn’t just sit on his pride and wait for a job in his field to materialize. So he worked that while continuing to look which did take a while.