Zou forgot working for ValleyRag....

zabovo

You've clearly never been a teacher. I don't teach school kids, but I have done business training and private teaching and teaching is horribly tiring and requires a great deal of preparation. The main problem is that you're always "on". It's like acting. It's also a thankless task.

I can't imagine putting up with a horde of uncooperative kids as part of my work. It's hard enough putting up with easily bored and uncooperative adults.

Besides, if you think the teachers are getting a better deal than you as a reporter, you can always change jobs. Teachers are usually in demand.

ShariC

There are also far better jobs. If you really think you're such hot shit then you should be doing something creative, work at a startup for example. Thing is, you can't have it both ways. You can't make $70,000 right out of school and also do interesting work unless you are incredibly talented and also lucky to boot.

It doesn't matter how hard you worked in college, no one will give a shit until you prove yourself in the real world. I'm the first to recognize the value of a quality CS degree (I have one, and yes it's very applicable), but I've met brilliant PhDs who can't tie their shoes let alone create a successful product.

telbij

VarunHobbit

While some of you may be salivating at some of these jobs, keep in mind that there are jobs like this in any field and at any level, and it is good to be aware of them before you accept. Remember that when you interview it is as much or more about trying to get a feel for the job than it is trying to get them to offer it to you.

krazdon

FabronGadha

raincoaster

Sometimes I think the one thing they dont teach postgraduate students is that, unlike a HS diploma or bachelors, it means relatively little to your potential additional wage earnings.

But I see you sought to counter that by going into education.

Clap.

brundlefly76

James D

YouDeserveBetter

YouDeserveBetter

debate over

mork2010

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walterbyrd

This is of course in the bay area.. I'm sure in other parts of the country $50k/yr buys you a 4 bedroom house with a picket fence and an entry level luxury sedan such as an Audi.

--Marcus

Whocares

CarissaPhrixus

But I agree with several posters here who are a bit surprised that most of these jobs are still at the level the bulk of us would have preferred (big-time!) to what we went through in our own less-than-stellar formative years.

For me, the worst part was as a gateway controller at a major mortgage bank, where my piddly responsibility was to double-check that home loans written by people would be accepted by the proprietary computer system -- truly a job bereft of need (The account executives were already typing the applications into their PCs, why did they need me?). It was my job to 'inform' the 6-figure executives when something was wrong with their $300K loan written for an outhouse in Dade county (flood zone!).

My 'undocumented' responsibilities included fielding phone calls intended for the division's first VP, who went for so long without accepting phone calls that his secretary gave up on him, leaving me to pick up the phone for the both of them. The salary? An dollar and a half less an hour than that same person had baited me with. (OK, I'm an idiot; but it was 1993 and I had an Associate's degree...)

macbigot

frankthefink

Aceboogie

Try working a Support role like the Amazon position, but with 40k and on Graveyard or Swing-shift. Oh memories...

EtherealDragonz

I started out with much worse digs than what the current set of whiners are complaining about. Then again, no one was hiring at the time and you just took whatever you could.

Having worked my way from the bottom, if you're complaining about the pay on your first job out school, just STFU. A little humility is good for you...

QADude

edosan

Guizzy

DanLar75

While I respect the fact that the article responsibly points out that not every job at Google is a golden gig, if ever there was a textbook example of Millennials and their ever-growing sense of entitlement, here's Exhibit A. Certainly heard heaps of it while recently hiring for a junior coder. I showed this article to a large handful of tech colleagues & pros, all of them sending unprompted replies containing various iterations of 'whiny,' - not terribly surprising since many of them started with much worse and relatively much lower-paying first gigs. Back to reality, Valleywag.

walkathon

Guizzy

OK, I'll get off the box now. I couldn't WAIT to get out of there. And none of my friends would shoot me, either.

Brian

So basically, exactly the same experience as most other college students? I had to stay up all night on many projects as well, but my field has nothing to do with Computer Science. Fuck, my college probably isn't even in the top 10 of the field I'm in. But, I still had to write a full computer program in a senior level class within my major. REMINDER: I AM NOT A COMP SCI STUDENT. You know how long that took? How much stress was involved? Again, I am NOT a comp sci student. What makes you think you had it so tough? I'm not really sure why you think CS people are special and deserve more.

trujunglist

That and by the time your an expert in anything the technology is obsolete and someone 5 years your junior will take your position for $7.50/hr..

Secondly I was suggesting that while these jobs may seem low paid to some they can quickly turn into a high paying job in only a few years. With the exception of maybe Mahalo.

Whocares

Computer Science is not a trivial field of study. Admission to the top 10 CS programs/schools in the country is very competitive--I was extremely fortunate to have gotten into one of them. Graduating isn't a walk in the park either. You spend seemingly endless nights working on tough homework and projects, without hope of a social life. And in my case, try adding a prof who makes inappropriate advances toward you, and then gives you a near-failing grade when you complain to your school. Not to mention the chauvinistic men in your major who treat you like crap simply because you're female.

Is it too much to expect at least a job that treats decently after all the crap I've gone through? It's simply not enough to just get paid $50k+.

dangster

Sorry. That's always driven me nuts.

Oh No I Di'n't.

voluum

Guizzy

Elaine Chow

Mouser_UK

brian s.

Agreed. Seems to me that anyone getting $50-80k straight out of college should be happy.

"There are low ceilings in here! This isn't worth the $80,000 a year I'm being paid! Boo hoo!"

Ten worst entry-level jobs? Not hardly.

edosan

On the other hand, i can brag that i've personally made over twenty five thousand pizzas.

nutbastard

godospoons

Harry "loves the curry - food that is" Wang

FiveStarEggRoll

tinyhands

yamarwook

strider_mt2k

HydePark

michaellamb

What they're not saying is that most of these people's second jobs, which were kindasorta thrust upon them during the merger, is as $8.50 per hour baristas.

raincoaster

Whocares

To be fair, though, Valleywag was far from the worst job I ever had. And I'd much rather repeat the stint here than go back to being an admin. Which reminds me: Where did Pete Cashmore get the funds to hire a full-time party scheduler?

Megan McCarthy

paulrocks

Jordan Golson

Try local ISP Tech Support, pissed off customers with PEBKAC errors and you're making $7.50 an hour in an un-airconditioned cubicle during the summer.

Hell, just about any Technical Support position is going to be worse than most of those jobs.

Or there's always Blue Current (they're a technology logistics contractor for Boeing). The way the job was billed: "Entry level tech position, involves setup, configuration, and installation of desktop and notebook computers." What it actually was: "Warehouse and delivery of IT related systems. You may occasionally see a computer but but actual tech related work tops out at imaging systems and connecting monitors." Pay : $10 an hour (UPS Warehouse pay in the same area: $15 an hour).

Hell, of the ones you listed there are only two that I wouldn't do, the one at Microsoft and the Executive Assistant gig... and if you upped the salary even those might change.

something_unique_and_descriptive

The worst part was that I had to listen to teachers making $43k straight out of school whine constantly about how THEY weren't getting paid enough. You think putting up with a classroom of 20 whiney ADD kids and having summers off is hard to do? Try hitting ridiculous deadlines and putting up with 100,000 whiney ADD readers and only having New Years Day, Memorial Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day off.

RacecarBoobTat

seanpercival

dna

DozeUser

DozeUser

Papa Midnight

godzira

jiindong

mwbeeler

Screw the PT Mahalo job, do what you're really worth, be a Wikipedia editor!

Alaska Miller

budd

ScalaWag

Ioakim

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