Un even and unfair
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Un even and unfair
Hey everybody, I just had to add my own thoughts about the "occupy wallstreet and other occupy movements and the utter shambles the US economy is in right now. I currently live in the state of Michigan and things here are the worst I've ever experianced. I currently work full-time as a Security officer in the second biggest city in the state and it does get violent sometimes. I have been kept at the same pay rate since I started in the company about 5 years ago. Despite numerous requests for a pay increase for outstanding work as well as a requirement to be bi-lingual I have been denied time and time again. The reason I was given for denial were lack of money in the company for pay raises or promotions. I found this a little un believable due to the managaer's recent purchase of a cadillac escalade. Furthermore prices for everything in this state have sky-rocketed to where the average person can no longer purchase groceries without assistance from the government. The average price for a one bedroom apartment is now $700 a month without any utilities paid by the complaex due to people not paying rent on time. So now the cost of living on your own has gone up as well. I personally make on average about $1,000 a month after taxes from my paychecks. After bills and living expenses I will keep about $250 to which is used for gas, gas as this blog is being written is about $3.99 a gallon. Now you may be saying to yourself: " If its that bad why not get a different job or move?" And yes I have asked myself that many times before, so here are my answers: In three months I have filed and written out over 150 applications and resumes to numerous job openings and vacancies and I have even requested a transfer within my company... I have had no call backs about my applications or resumes and there are no openings within the company to which I may transfer. I am a Iraq combat veteran, I hold two college degrees and studying for my third. I speak three languages and I am certfied by numerous government agencies and other law enforcement offices throughout the country. I have worked along side the secret Service, the US Marshals office and even helped protect some of the worlds most prestigous leaders yet I am unable to find other work which can pay me what I am worth. I am no being pesemistic nor have I lost any hope for something better, I am just curious to hear if things ar ethe same elsewhere. I just wanted to hear what you guys think about all this and please write in to whatever you think about this situation. thanks Chris
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My frustration is the same as yours. I graduated with a degree in international affairs in 2005. My last year of school was spent in China working and studying. I returned home thinking that being fluent in Chinese would help me get a good job. The best I could do was answering phones for a construction company part-time, so I picked up a second job as a greeter at a cellphone store. I was one of the only degree people there and I was the lowest rung on the ladder making just enough money to go back and forth between jobs. I was 24 and still living at home. It was soul crushing. So I joined the Peace Corps, teaching for two years and became fluent in yet another language. I couldn't find work in the States when I returned, so I moved to Korea, where I was payed OK, but treated horribly day in and day out. When I got back to the states, sigh, I got a job at a coffee-shop. But I'm in New Zealand studying again, and hopefully something good will come of it. I had to come to New Zealand, because I don't qualify for the programs back home-they are way too competitive. I think the lowest point was going to a job agency and being told that I can take my degree up to Laconia (I'm from NH) on the weekends and sell tickets at the race track. I exercise like crazy and it's only because the gym seems to be the only place where if I work hard, I'll actually see improvements and be rewarded for all the time I put into it. Anyway, thanks for your service, our vets shouldn't be treated like that. I wish I could say for certain that some day you'll be fairly compensated, but sadly I can't. Summer will be here soon enough and there's always hotdogs and beers.
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