[EarlKing]

$40 and hour is still $40 and hour. Live like a Bohemian, pile up your cash for a year, two years, four years... and then bounce to something better. Learned helplessness and expecting a daddy to come along and fix everything for you is not productive.

[teg4n_]

It’s not actually $40 an hour in my experience. It’s closer to $25 and even then the amount of stress and responsibility you have is absurd for being a lowly contractor.

[EarlKing]

Then don't work there, or do as I directed and leverage time there to get better work elsewhere. A company that is determined to treat people as "human resources" will not be deterred just because you complain. It will be deterred only by failure. So let them fail and in the meantime use their failure as a means to get a leg up yourself.

[hammyhavoc]

"Then don't work there". Christ, what privilege.

[wjamesg]

A lot of that going on around here, as per usual

[EarlKing]

ITT we learn that making intelligent decisions that require sacrifice is somehow "privilege"... but whining about making bad decisions isn't.

[shadowgovt]

The key piece is "require sacrifice."

It is privilege to have something you can sacrifice, and not just be trapped.

[EarlKing]

...in which case exactly 1% of the population are unprivileged enough to not have family, friends, or choices. This is literally an excuse for people who don't want to even try.

[selimthegrim]

Gee I’m sure my managers at Intel as a green badge would really have appreciated that waiting to fail speech from me when I was getting paid $35/hour (with some benefits, I’ll admit) in 2013 via W-2 contract.

[heavyset_go]

Weird that you think it's learned helplessness when I'm advocating on the behalf of others.