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Title: I work 4 jobs and I'm still struggling
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URL Source: http://money.cnn.com/2013/12/12/new ... time-jobs/index.html?hpt=hp_t5
Published: Dec 15, 2013
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Post Date: 2013-12-15 15:06:24 by Horse
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Bobby Bingham works 4 jobs, shares a one-bedroom apartment with a roommate, has virtually no money saved and can't remember the last time he took a vacation. Bobby Bingham works four jobs in Kansas City, Missouri, yet he has very little to show for it. Bingham is 37 years old and has a college degree, but like many Americans, is stuck working many hours in low wage, part-time jobs. Each week, he works a total of about 60 hours in his jobs as a massage therapist, a waiter at a Mexican restaurant, a delivery man for sandwich chain Jimmy John's and a receptionist at his massage school. He brings home about $400 a week, or $20,000 per year, and has joined the nationwide movement of fast food protests fighting for higher wages. "I've come to the point in my life where I wonder if I can ever support a family," he said. "I have no idea how that's ever going to logically happen." Bingham's is an increasingly common story. The share of part-time workers who couldn't find full-time jobs surged during the Great Recession, more than double what it was in the preceding decade. Though their situation is improving now, more than 7.7 million Americans are still settling for part-time work, compared to about 4.1 million on average in 2006. Related: The myth of the American Dream Here's what one week of juggling schedules and part-time paychecks looks like for Bingham: - 24 hours waiting tables at Mexican restaurant Taco Republic. He makes tips plus $2.13, which is the federal minimum wage for tipped employees, like waiters. -30 hours delivering sandwiches for Jimmy John's, which pays him $7.35 an hour, plus tips. -3 one-hour massages, for a total of $60. -9 hours as a receptionist at his former massage school. (The amount of money he makes working at the school isn't included in his $400 weekly pay, since it goes directly to repay $9,500 worth of student loans.) Bingham shares a one-bedroom apartment with a roommate, has virtually no money saved and can't remember the last time he took a vacation. This is not where Bingham thought he'd be. After struggling to make ends meet while also intermittently attending college, he finally graduated in 2008 with a bachelor's degree in liberal arts from University of Missouri, Kansas City. He had even higher hopes from his massage therapy degree. "My family told me, 'just get your degree and it will be fine,'" he said. "A degree looks very nice, but I don't have a job to show for it." But Bingham, like millions of other hourly wage earners, doesn't know if there is a possible path to a higher paying job. In fact, wages fell for the entire bottom 70% of the wage distribution during the Great Recession and its aftermath, according to research from the Economic Policy Institute. And he feels like there aren't a whole lot of places to go from here. He can't afford to go back to school, and even if he could, Bingham said it wouldn't be worth it. He doesn't have time to take on a fifth job. Related: Sick days: A luxury many hourly workers don't have So he has turned to the fast food protests in hopes of improving his current situation. He walked off work last Thursday as part of a nationwide day of action planned by union-backed groups like Fight for $15 and Fast Food Forward. Organizers say that workers in more than 100 cities were calling for fast food chains to increase their wages to $15 an hour. Currently, the nationwide average hourly wage for fast food workers is just over $9 an hour, or about $18,500 a year. The low-wage protest movement began with a small walkout by fast food workers in New York City in November 2012 and has since picked up steam. Strikes this past August drew fast food workers in 60 cities, organizers said. Bingham said the protests are the only way he sees things getting better. "The only choice I have is to go into work and do this," he said. "Looking around and seeing all these other people I work with, they don't see any other choices either." To top of page 
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#1. To: Horse (#0)
Bingham should stop working for wages and strike out on his own. imo
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
1. Take a name from the Tel Aviv phonebook 2. Start a hedge fund as manager and promise outrageous returns on investments 3. Success!!!
#2. To: Horse (#0)
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-Alex Kurtagic
#3. To: Horse (#0)
Which prepared him for waiting tables and delivering sandwiches. he finally graduated in 2008 with a bachelor's degree in liberal arts
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." - Frederic Bastiat
#4. To: Lod (#1)
True, very true, however all too many "degreed" people have bought into the college paper hanging business. What is missing??? Most of those people disdain getting their hands dirty and or sweating, plus they have zero initiative. Bingham should stop working for wages and strike out on his own. imo
#5. To: Lod (#1)
+1, lod. Bobby fears getting dirty and sweaty. There are plenty of good paying full time jobs out there if you're willing to apply yourself. If you choose a trade, you should be able to strike out on your own after a year or so's training.
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(The world needs more culture)
#6. To: Horse (#0) (Edited)
Is there some petition for this higher wage protest? What Bobby should do is write a letter of protest to his state Congressman and Senators. Should also take this matter straight to the White House. If this administration is so adamant on pushing national healthcare down our throats, then they need to raise the damn minimum wage.
#7. To: purplerose (#6)
I have a friend who wishes to address the Missouri General Assembly about the Driver's license scam. Look at your license or I.D. card. The name is in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS. This is evidence of how they draw you into their fiction. The only way to get them out of your life is to file your own Security Agreement. This makes you the Secured Party, and gives you a priority claim against their claim, which cannot be perfected. ;)
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
#8. To: Southern Style (#3)
Which prepared him for waiting tables and delivering sandwiches. I have an Aunt who is still mad at me over a comment I made about useless degrees 40 years ago. Her best friend had a P.h.d. in Lit - she ended up - teaching Lit. :-) he finally graduated in 2008 with a bachelor's degree in liberal arts
"“Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.” ~ Gautama Siddhartha — The Buddha
Any sufficiently advanced evil is indistinguishable from stupidity. ~ Unk (Paraphrase of Clarke's 3rd Law: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.")
#9. To: purplerose (#6)
Companies will pay whatever the market tells them to pay. Locally, fast-food restaurants advertise StartingWage @ $12/hour. Our housekeeper/dog-walker people are paid $20 cash/hour. ...they need to raise the damn minimum wage.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
#10. To: Obnoxicated, Cynicom, 4 (#5)
Yeah, there's all kind of work out there for anyone willing to get down with it - plumbing, HVAC, roofing, lawn mowing, painting numbers on curbs, cleaning homes, and on and on and on. Stop applying for jobs and create your own jobs! People will pay you good money to do so.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
#11. To: BTP Holdings (#7)
I am well aware of the "Security Agreement" we have been conned into paying. It started with our birth certificates which are actually stock certificates which are sold on the bond market. Then, it extended this conned agreement into our drivers licenses.
#12. To: purplerose (#11)
DRIVER LICENSE Gotta get the caps going on.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
#13. To: Lod (#9)
Locally, fast-food restaurants advertise StartingWage @ $12/hour. That depends on where your local fast food restaurants are. In some parts of the U.S. many of these restaurants pay $7.25 an hour. I know of servers in a local area that are getting $2.35 an hour and the tips are really bad. Because of the low wages ( some of which are way below federal minimum wage), many of these people are forced to work other jobs. And many of these people go to school and pay rent. Companies will pay whatever the market tells them to pay.
#14. To: Lod (#12)
The CAPS ON is significant in that it ties you in as a commercial entity (consumer) along with your birth certificate.
#15. To: Lod (#10)
Not easy but doable. Example... Two men here, high school dropouts, bought a tri axle truck went into heavy duty sewer repair business. You call, tell them what needs to be done right now, they bring everything and do the dirty work themselves. They are on call 24/7, regardless of weather etc etc. They are not book smart but are making good money. There is no competition and the home owners and business places are glad to pay. Stop applying for jobs and create your own jobs!
#16. To: Horse (#0)
-30 hours delivering sandwiches for Jimmy John's, which pays him $7.35 an hour, plus tips. -3 one-hour massages, for a total of $60. What a dip shit. His problem is failure to manage his hours and put more hours into his most lucrative job and less into the jobs that pay less. Unless, of course, he is a libturd attempting to garner sympathy for a BS story and his waiting/delivery tips make more than $20 bucks an hour... Frankly, I call BS on his story. I know many people with degrees who wait tables or tend bar simply because it is more lucrative that what they got their degree in. Do massages all day instead of 3 a week and he would make more than $200 a day plus tips, unless he really sucks at massages, in which case should give it up. 24 hours waiting tables at Mexican restaurant Taco Republic. He makes tips plus $2.13, which is the federal minimum wage for tipped employees, like waiters.
" If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11
"Life's tough, and even tougher if you're stupid." --John Wayne
#17. To: abraxas (#16)
Amen.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
#18. To: Lod (#12)
Gotta get the caps going on. DMV claims that they only have machines that do all caps. This is nonsense. ;) DRIVER LICENSE
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
#19. To: BTP Holdings (#18)
God. The ALL CAPS word processor. They don't even use typewriters anymore, and haven't for decades now. How bogus is that?
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
#20. To: abraxas (#16)
When I lived in Chicago, there was this big shot lawyer that worked for Kirkland & Ellis. Every day he would go to the Standard Club on S. Plymouth Ct. for lunch. The waiters hated him so much that they would spit in his soup. ROTFLMAO! like waiters.
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
#21. To: Lod (#19)
They don't even use typewriters anymore, and haven't for decades now. How bogus is that? I see your point. But that does not cut the mustard. ;) The ALL CAPS word processor.
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
#22. To: All (#19)
Jobs - UPS is now hiring lumpers to assist the drivers with all the deliveries. No DL required, the drivers will pick up the helpers and there's a fifty dollar bonus every week worked. They didn't say the salary...but, if you don't have a job, UPS has one for you.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
#23. To: Lod (#22) (Edited)
The UPS guy came to deliver a new digital camera to me. He was either breaking in a new driver or was showing his lumper the ropes. ;) UPS is now hiring lumpers to assist the drivers with all the deliveries.
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
#24. To: Horse (#0)
37, never married, took 16 years of intermittent college to get a degree in massage, and he's United Against Racism. Let him suffer. There's a whole helluva of lot of men in manly occupations who don't get paid much more. And have families. They don't whine, they deal with it. But then, they're men.
Republicans prefer white genocide to paying taxes or paying more for strawberries.
Democrats prefer white genocide to seeing anyone get ahead.
As the party of principle, Libertarians support white genocide because they oppose zoning.
#25. To: Horse, 4 (#0)
Every time the minimum wage is raised and the people who've spent years trying to work their way above it don't get a comparable cost of living increase at the same time, those people lose the percentage margin of purchasing power that they worked so long to achieve by being effectively rolled back that much closer to entry level wages. Businesses profit by raising their prices and also get more of their employees set back nearer to the minimum wage scale. This time, many people who have to train periodically to maintain certifications for their jobs would be left far behind the minimum wage of fast food workers who don't have to so qualify.
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"They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
#26. To: BTP Holdings (#18)
Pg 202 read in section "The Rules of English" where it discusses names in all caps. Names in all caps not only represent your slave name but that your name is a name of war.
#27. To: Cynicom (#15)
Not easy but doable. Example... Two men here, high school dropouts, bought a tri axle truck went into heavy duty sewer repair business. You call, tell them what needs to be done right now, they bring everything and do the dirty work themselves. They are on call 24/7, regardless of weather etc etc. They are not book smart but are making good money. There is no competition and the home owners and business places are glad to pay. In places where no permit is required to dig sewers the competition can be stiff. Other places require a permit and the work done under a licensed plumber's umbrella. Guess who pushed through the plumbers only law in DE about 20 years ago? One of the sponsors was an acquaintance of mine who owned the oldest plumbing company in Wilmington. He traveled the world as a trophy hunter so his wealth was conspicuous. I asked him why he pushed the law through and he briefly tried to convince me that it takes years of experience as a plumber (you know, working on steam heat, changing faucet seats, replacing submersible well pumps, etc.,) to correctly remove a shovel of Earth, because if done wrong, well, you can't just put it back. (or can you?) He finally cut the deuxdee and admitted that most any experienced backhoe operator can do the job just as well, as well as many macho sumbitchin' homeowners who rent the equipment and do it themselves. The problem for the plumber I knew was, guys with their own equipment hustling side munny were undercutting plumbers who charge $3,000 to repair breaks under dirt and more if under concrete or asphalt. The price fixing meant that they had homeowners by the wallet and they relied on the homeowners' insurance coverage to keep the price comfortably high. But, a part timer digging new construction laterals could easily undercut plumbers and there were no existing pipes that had to be located or repaired. Of course digging up existing sewers isn't really difficult. (tree roots, water and gas lines can be a problem-CALL MISS UTILITY before you dig!) After all, a plumber is an electrician with his brains blown out. Curly says, "No wonder there's no water-these pipes are fulla wires!" Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk."Stop applying for jobs and create your own jobs!
#28. To: Horse (#0) (Edited)
Go on welfare like the other Zero voters. Seriously, why bother working so hard for so little $? Jump on the Obama/Michie moocher train. Enjoy life - get a free phone - free health care - free lodging - free internet - free food ( like the Red Robin Nesters do). Take vacations - the world is your oyster when you're part of the Zero fan base crowd. I read comments on an Obamacare thread at the Daily Kos ( my monthly dumpster diving in lefty political "thought") a few weeks ago and it made me throw up. These f'ing lefty moochers are drawing welfare, getting subsidized for Obamacare - AND THEY OWN HOMES AND CARS AND ARE SENDING THEIR KIDS TO COLLEGE. That showed me the light. If you don't earn enough to make it worth your while ( 60% of earnings left over after taxes), get on the f'ing Obama moocher train. "My family told me, 'just get your degree and it will be fine,'" he said. "A degree looks very nice, but I don't have a job to show for it."
#29. To: purplerose (#26)
I have a book at home titled, "They Own it All (Including You)". Pg 202 read in section "The Rules of English" where it discusses names in all caps. Names in all caps not only represent your slave name but that your name is a name of war.
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
#30. To: scrapper2 (#28) (Edited)
Nothing new there. I wonder, though, just how they are getting the grants to send their kids to college. Maybe because they are considered "low income". ;) AND THEY OWN HOMES AND CARS AND ARE SENDING THEIR KIDS TO COLLEGE.
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
#31. To: purplerose (#26)
www.lawfulpath.com/ref/boh/bookOfTheHundreds_v4.1.pdf What??? What the scarecrow meant was the statement of the famous Pythagorean Theorem: "The sum of the squares of the legs of a right triangle is equal to the square of the hypotenuse".Pg 202 read in section "The Rules of English" where it discusses names in all caps. Names in all caps not only represent your slave name but that your name is a name of war.
"The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side."
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"They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
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