If you're an average worker in this forever recession

N2ITN2IT Inactive Imported Users Posts: 7,483 ■■■■■■■■■■
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If You're An Average Worker, You're Going Straight To The Bottom - Business Insider

I thought this was a good read.
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  • EveryoneEveryone Member Posts: 1,661
    Little harsh to delete people who are average don't ya think? ;)
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  • N2ITN2IT Inactive Imported Users Posts: 7,483 ■■■■■■■■■■
    Reposted from a better source ;)

    Btw you are to fast for your own good :)
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  • EveryoneEveryone Member Posts: 1,661
    I knew I should have quoted. :P

    On a note more related to the article... I'm glad I never subscribed to that way of thinking.
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  • TackleTackle Member Posts: 534
    I'll make sure to polish up the ole burger flipper.

    Edit: I think I'd need to buy one first.
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  • undomielundomiel Member Posts: 2,818
    I find it hard to believe from anecdotal evidence. I meet and work with way too many less-than-competent people who are very safe in their jobs. There also isn't a definition of what above average pay is. One person's above average pay is pennies for someone else.
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  • CodeBloxCodeBlox Member Posts: 1,363 ■■■■□□□□□□
    Very true.
    Currently reading: Network Warrior, Unix Network Programming by Richard Stevens
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  • N2ITN2IT Inactive Imported Users Posts: 7,483 ■■■■■■■■■■
    Tackle wrote: »
    I'll make sure to polish up the ole burger flipper.

    Edit: I think I'd need to buy one first.

    LMAO

    I just bought a post hole digger!
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  • odysseyeliteodysseyelite Member Posts: 504 ■■■■■□□□□□
    I find some of this to be pretty good. I've never had the mindset to be at one job and stick there for 20 years waiting for a pension. I think all of us can relate. Why are we going for certs? To make yourself better than the next guy to get the next higher paying job. If you wait for a company to make you take a cert you will be lost in the wind.
    Currently reading: Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
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  • onesaintonesaint Member Posts: 801
    Even the bottom is required to be better than average:
    I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave | Mother Jones
    Work in progress: picking up Postgres, elastisearch, redis, Cloudera, & AWS.
    Next up: eventually the RHCE and to start blogging again.

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  • tpatt100tpatt100 Member Posts: 2,991 ■■■■■■■■■□
    holy crap Google ads make that article hard to read
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  • AkaricloudAkaricloud Member Posts: 938
    The same thing was starting to happen at the university that I attended. Average GPA in my degree for each class had to be between 2.7-3.1 and they would curve downward to make that happen if necessary. To stay in the program you needed to maintain a 3.4 average or above.

    Average gets you kicked out and the quality of graduates is much higher because of it. It's a harsh reality that many get caught up in.
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