Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job?

Re:Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job? by pc86 on Friday April 16, 2021 @11:02AM (#26834756)

Quit two jobs at 18 because of "low pay" (what 18 year is well paid?). Doesn't say what happened with the Amazon job but $15/hr is about $30k/yr which is about 80-82% of the median individual - not household - income in the US. It's absolutely a "reasonable wage" for a help desk associate. It seems like they've pointed out issues to management which were fixed. That sort of thing gets noticed, in a good way if your employer isn't totally toxic.

Less than a year of school, even 100% paid with loans, can easily be paid off on $30k/yr.

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Re:Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job? by bawolff on Friday April 16, 2021 @09:01PM (#26840726)

> (what 18 year is well paid?)

Plenty in our industry if they have the right set of skills (including soft skills). It might be unreasonable for OP to expect more but lets not pretend that there are no very highly paid young people in the software industry.

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Re:Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job? by pc86 on Saturday April 17, 2021 @04:06PM (#26847032)

"Plenty" in absolute numbers maybe but let's not pretend highly paid teenagers aren't an outlier. The vast majority are graduating HS or college freshman at that age and have zero or very negative income.

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