True. People undersell themselves, or it’s inertia, or scare of changes but even if you work a shit job, you can get paid more at another shit job. 
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This is the time where employees have the upper hand. Foolish not to exploit. Grab the easy 
before they 
away.
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Bet that’s true of marriage too 
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Part of the problem is that wages haven’t kept up with inflation, especially when you consider how much of a worker’s marginal income - the income on which a raise it taxed - goes the government. And if a person applies for all forms of aid available they can get the equivalent of about 45k a year before taxes and that’s for someone single. Employers need to be realistic.
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In other words, excessive aids. Reduce them.
Pleading now.
My mom un-retired too. She’s 66 and stopped working for like 6 months. Got too bored and went back to work. She’s 6 days a week, caring for even more elderly lady 
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Sigh…Incredibly stubborn. She’ll probably work until she dies.
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Born in the year of a horse or ox?
They need to be regionally adjusted. 45k is basic survival or not even in some places but more than median income in others.
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Needs a hobby. Two of my beautiful emeralds are going at it right this moment. A freshly shed female in March is irresistible to a male.
Or - hiking. Waterfall in the Mazatals this morning. I just don’t understand people who get bored when they don’t work.
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We were poor immigrant family. We don’t have hobbies. We just work.
Now I can give them whatever they want or travel or etc but they rather work. My dad, 69, finally gave up working a year ago because of severe carpal tunnel. He was a cook at a Chinese fast food place.
I can relate. Now at me now. I don’t have to work besides managing my rentals but I end up working as server, delivery driver, and other random stuff to kill time. The day is long. I can only spam this forum for so many hours in a day 
I need hobbies.
Side note: Reptiles scare me. 
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Girl friend?
Wife?
Children?
Don’t have, then should party! Karaoke!
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A wife. No kids yet. She works full time from home. 24/7 together is not good 
What’s the saying, distance makes the heart grows fonder?
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I think this is why my husband went back to the office last July.
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Occasionally is ok. Husband and wife should be like form and shadow, inseparable.
形影不离
You are losing your Chinese root fast.
I can’t see my millennial peers and Gen Z’ers lining up to fight fires in the forest for next to nothing.
Workplace conditions like low and non-competitive wages and housing availability and affordability have long been issues for the Forest Service recruitment.
The Biden administration attempted to tackle the pay issue last summer, raising the minimum wage for federal wildland firefighters to $15 an hour. The new wage, which started in January, was widely applauded, but it still hasn’t kept up with the competition.
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There’s a $15 an hour minimum wage across a lot of the West Coast, but I just saw the other day at one of the department stores $18.31 an hour starting wage.”
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$25 
U.S. Work-Permit Backlog Is Costing Immigrants Their Jobs
Processing times for renewals have shot up at the underfunded Citizenship and Immigration Services.