Is It The Job Or The Pay You Signed Up For?
We love the narrative that everyone is underpaid but some people knowingly walk into low-pay fields and then get mad at the paycheck they signed up for. If you pick a career with a low ceiling and never pivot, upskill, or change industries, is that really being underpaid or just staying in the wrong lane? It’s not always corporate greed sometimes it’s misalignment and refusal to adapt. Be honest: Is it unfair pay or a bad career choice?
2025/10/23 Edited to
People aren’t asking for “CEO wages,” they just want living wages. Someone who works 40 hours a week, sometimes more, should be able to live on what they make and not have to take a second or even third job to make ends meet. Wages haven’t kept up with the cost of living. Until the late 70s a person working a minimum wage job had a good life, a car, could even afford a house or send their kids to college. But now people, especially on the right, sneer at people who complain about wages as if they are somehow a lesser species. It’s funny, though, when the people you sneer at leave those jobs for greener fields, you folks begin complaining that “no one wants to work anymore.”