Comments on: Office Rat-A-Tat: America’s 10 Worst-Paying Jobs

By: top-n-bottom

top-n-bottom — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:40:15 +0000

Working outside the Philippines I make USD 890/day…right about 27,000 dollars a month. Pretty good. Inside the Philippines, it’s 583 Philippine pesos per day…12 and a half bucks. A day. Needless to say…I don’t work inside the Philippines any more…thank God.

By: KerriH

KerriH — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:42:00 +0000

My worst paying job was at a nail salon the summer after my freshmen year in college in 2003. I got paid $5 an hour to fold towels, bring drinks to the customers, and answer the phone. However, I also got manicures and pedicures whenever I wanted and they bought my lunch every day, so no harm done.

Currently I am a TA at an elementary school and hating life until I can be a “real teacher.” Granted, I’m having to go into more debt to do that, but it’ll be worth it to bring in more than $18,000 a year.

By: Khassi

Khassi — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 17:56:00 +0000

I made the mistake of working in a daycare center for a month. I would have made about $5,000 a yesr

By: Steve P.

Steve P. — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:05:45 +0000

My first Social Security paying, wage-slave job was as a windshield washer/concession counter drudge at a drive-in theatre. It paid the princely sum of 35 cents per hour plus tips (hah!). Benefits included seeing the movies for free (over and over and over), and all the left over popcorn I could chow down.

By: Randy

Randy — Wed, 21 May 2008 14:11:56 +0000

I actually have two that come to mind.The 1st was as a young teen working on my great-cousins farm during the summer school holidays.I was there 2 yrs and the 1st summer I was payed 10$ a week. My day started at 5:am and finished 12 hrs later but I was given the weekends off.The following yr I was given a 5$ raise but thye hrs were extended and I had to work 6 days a week with every other Sunday.Grant you this was the early 60′s. My second job was working for Pepsi, 95cents an hr. Also during the 60′s.

By: Guy

Guy — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:24:37 +0000

I don’t understand why university graduates wait around for a position in their field to open up. If you major in Anthropology you need to learn how to market the skills you learned to succeed. Trust me, those “useless” majors like history teach you a lot of things that the average business administration major lacks. You just need to communicate that to your potential employer.

By: Ahmadidajad

Ahmadidajad — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:31:12 +0000

I work full-time in the transportation industry as a dispatcher making $10/hour + Medical/Dental. I net $14,500/year….

I graduated from high school and didn’t go on to a major university because I was afraid to take out the loans. I wasn’t sure what field of study I wanted to enter and knew I’d probably spend most of my time partying. I sort of regret not going because I know my way around a computer and probably could run laps around some kid that just graduated from the University of Florida, with an IT degree.

It just blows my mind how the pay structure of our country is set up. The guy who busts his ass, 50-60 hours a week, in a factory gets paid considerably less than say a real estate agent, who could get paid that first guy I described salary in one month just by selling a couple homes (which isn’t exactly easy at the moment, thanks George Bush). Then you got the good ol’ fashioned Major League Baseball player who expects 20,000,000 per year to play a fkn GAME. AND HE ENDS UP GETTING IT!

Capitalism and free markets are rearing their ugly heads.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:49:21 +0000

$10 an hour bad? Definitely for a single-income household. The odd part here is that seems to be the income ceiling no matter what job you have. I was an experienced and degree-ed telecommunication technician working non-stop on hi-tech and very tedious equipment, for $10.25. The UniMart convenience store started workers at $9.75. Of course either is a step up from Air Force recruit. Sure it’s not the hardcore Marines, but how does your job stack up to 18 hours of duty, white glove inspections, common latrines, cohabitating with strangers with zero privacy, meal time / bed time like you were 10 years old for about $2 per hour?
Even if you aren’t actively at war, the plethora of things that you would only experience in the military still makes me wonder why the you were always under at least a passive aggressive threat of trouble or discharge and being treated like crap from people that come from strange backgrounds that make getting a “we’ll hire anyone” job a necessity.
I volunteered, I wasn’t sentenced to the USAF like it was a punishment, but that its’ attitude. And of course your living conditions are worse that what Government social services allow illiterate, can’t/don’t work, drunk baby machines are given. BTW you don’t get a chance to use those highly advertised benefits, and employers don’t want to high motivated hard workers that may take their jobs or expect things to run correctly. The last part is a good tip when job seeking; the desperate, passive, dumb-guy has the edge over “over qualified” – at least appear to be significantly less sharp than your future boss.

By: Robert Wayne

Robert Wayne — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 15:04:15 +0000

The worst paying job I ever had after the crappy mall jobs while in high school was as a security guard. The job itself wasn’t so bad but the pay was atrocious. On top of that the govt., the coast guard and the company itself made a big deal out of homeland security rules. They didn’t like it when I asked “Why are we fooling around with this when the politicians refuse to let border security from stopping illegal mexicans from crossing the border?”

By: Mary

Mary — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:32:14 +0000

I want to contest the “SHAMPOOERS” place of number 7… I worked at a relatively nice hair salon in a nice area.. I was paid $10.00 an hour, plus tips.. and if you know what you’re doing, those people know how to tip! I didn’t do too bad there..