Am I worth higher pay?

[BlancoNino]

I'm 22 years old and I'm in college. I have worked very hard for a restaurant for nearly 4 years. I have experience delivering pizzas and as a manager at this restaurant. I currently make a little over 8 dollars an hour.

Am I worth a job that pays more? My friends think I should find a higher paying job.

 

[Alprazolam]

wow.

 

[imported_Mike]

Based on your posts around here? No

 

[erub]

no

 

[Captante]

Originally posted by: Mike
Based on your posts around here? No

 

[imported_Lothar]

Originally posted by: Mike
Based on your posts around here? No

 

[Ameesh]

how would we know, you havent given us any skills, and before you say delivering pizzas is a skill, its not.

what are you majoring in at college?

 

[BlancoNino]

Originally posted by: Ameesh
how would we know, you havent given us any skills, and before you say delivering pizzas is a skill, its not.

what are you majoring in at college?

Just my general studies for my AAS. I've been considered to be the best manager there...I don't know...it just seems like I"m worth more than 17 cents an hour more than minimum wage, IMO.

 

[JS80]

To the pizza shop? No. Elsewhere? Yes.

 

[BlancoNino]

Originally posted by: JS80
To the pizza shop? No. Elsewhere? Yes.

Which is basically what I'm asking.

That makes me feel a little better. My friend works for Costco and he's the same age as me and makes 11 dollars an hour.

 

[MazerRackham]

You should find an on-campus job. I was making $9+ per hour back when I was an undergrad in 1996!!! And my job was great (did A/V stuff for the night school at UCI, called "UCI Extension"), I met all kinds of hot women, and I got a great rec out of it too.

 

[f4phantom2500]

Originally posted by: MazerRackham
You should find an on-campus job. I was making $9+ per hour back when I was an undergrad in 1996!!! And my job was great (did A/V stuff for the night school at UCI, called "UCI Extension"), I met all kinds of hot women, and I got a great rec out of it too.

I'm a student worker in a dean's office at my school; basically I'm an office lackey, I make copies, type stuff into Excel, take documents to other departments, and do odd jobs when they need someone to (I'm like the only guy there who isn't really important [dean, professor, etc] that doesn't have back problems). I make $9/hour and minimum wage is $5.15 here, and this is the pay I started out with back in August, so you should definitely follow this guys advice and get an on-campus job, or at least a different job. $9/hour is pretty high compared to a lot of other people I know, some make as low as ~$6.50 (book store, but they get discounts on books), and as much as $10 (another student worker in the same dean's office). I'm sure others make more, but the people I've talked to make somewhere in this range. A lot of them end up with a lot of free time for studying and such, but I happen to have the job that has never-ending paperwork (I work for the lady who handles finances for the School of Engineering and Computer Science, the largest school on campus, and as far as I'm aware the only one with it's own finance people; apparently the finances of other schools are handled by the finance department or something).

Anyway, yeah, get a job on campus.

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

If you've worked in the same place for four years and still make seventeen cents over minimum... no.

Motivation. Ever heard of it?

 

[aswedc]

Impossible to tell you without information on your job market. Middle of nowhere, that'll get you a nice one bedroom apartment easy. California? Time to get out that cardboard box.

 

[BlancoNino]

Sigh...sometimes I think I've just wasted so much of my life...and that I"m getting such a late start...

 

[aidanjm]

Originally posted by: BlancoNino
Sigh...sometimes I think I've just wasted so much of my life...and that I"m getting such a late start...

you probably developed many excellent skills during those 4 years... skills in managing people, managing the restaurant, customer service skills, etc. so it's not like it was a waste of time.

I guess you just need to work out how to translate those skills into a new, better paying job somewhere.

the other thing is job satisfaction - if you enjoyed working at the restaurant for those 4 years, I can't see how it can be dismissed as a waste of time.

 

[postmortemIA]

focus on school, reduce work hours... take loan if needed, you'll repay it easier when you got job as a result of your degree... you are wasting your time.

 

[angminas]

Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy
If you've worked in the same place for four years and still make seventeen cents over minimum... no.

Motivation. Ever heard of it?

Don't be an ass.

:thumbsdown:

 

[alimoalem]

where do you live where minimum wage is $7.83? i'm in california (bay area originally, davis now) and our minimum wage just got up to $7.50 jan 1st...and the bay area/davis are more expensive, in general, to live in than other parts of the state.

definitely go somewhere else. i had a paid internship at 15 and got $7 an hour...

 

[BlancoNino]

Originally posted by: alimoalem
where do you live where minimum wage is $7.83? i'm in california (bay area originally, davis now) and our minimum wage just got up to $7.50 jan 1st...and the bay area/davis are more expensive, in general, to live in than other parts of the state.

definitely go somewhere else. i had a paid internship at 15 and got $7 an hour...

Washington State....7.93.

 

[Beev]

It depends where you live. I live in a smaller town, but if I moved to a big one (or to freakin' overpriced California) I could probably make double what I do for the same job.

 

[Zolty]

Originally posted by: BlancoNino

Originally posted by: alimoalem
where do you live where minimum wage is $7.83? i'm in california (bay area originally, davis now) and our minimum wage just got up to $7.50 jan 1st...and the bay area/davis are more expensive, in general, to live in than other parts of the state.

definitely go somewhere else. i had a paid internship at 15 and got $7 an hour...

Washington State....7.93.

Originally posted by: BlancoNino
Just my general studies for my AAS. I've been considered to be the best manager there...I don't know...it just seems like I"m worth more than 17 cents an hour more than minimum wage, IMO.

8-0.17 = 7.93???

 

[TheoPetro]

I will pay you if you NEVER tell or mae up a joke again

 

[paulxcook]

Lots of retail chains have managerial training programs. However, if you want to make any money in that line of work, forget your pizza place, go to a store like Target, Lowes, Home Depot, a big chain store with a wide variety of products (maybe not Walmart, though, and not a bookstore, card shop, or specialty store). This isn't my field, but when I was a bit younger I worked at places like Target, Menards, etc, and the managers and even some assistant managers of these stores would make anywhere from $60,000 to over $100,000 a year. It takes some time and hard work to actually be a manager of a store like that, and it would of course be more stressful than being a shift manager at a pizza place, but you have to start somewhere, and it doesn't sound like you have a target career right now anyway...

 

[FoBoT]

i don't have enough information to answer, come fix my car and then i'll try to give you an answer