janitor vs. journalist

[txsportsscribe]

while the fact that 700 people applied for this job is utterly amazing, what caught my eye was that the beginning pay is better than what a j-school grad can likely expect from their first job.

http://money.aol.com/news/articles/_a/bbdp/janitor-job-700-applicants/373625

 

[BigSleeper]

It's double what my first newspaper job in Ohio paid. And for NE Ohio, that's a mighty fine wage.

 

[spnited]

$16 an hour, 40-hour week, 52 weeks = 33K a year

That's a mighty fine wage?

 

[txsportsscribe]

$16 an hour, 40-hour week, 52 weeks = 33K a year

That's a mighty fine wage?

compared to the $20k some rags are offering, i'd say yes.

 

[doubledown68]

$16 an hour, 40-hour week, 52 weeks = 33K a year

That's a mighty fine wage?

More than I make, and I've been at my current stop since 2003. I've learned long ago that those who do actually make livable money at a newspaper don't care what's in the paper.... just that there is a paper.

 

[AMacIsaac]

A guy who worked at the Sun with me left to take a janitorial position. He's never made more money, nor been more happy and relaxed.

 

[kingcreole]

$16 an hour, 40-hour week, 52 weeks = 33K a year

That's a mighty fine wage?

Thousands of journalists wish they could make that much.

 

[Cadet]

$16 an hour, 40-hour week, 52 weeks = 33K a year

That's a mighty fine wage?

It took me almost six years out of grad school to make more than $33K a year.

 

[BYH]

This guy's done both jobs.

 

[mike311gd]

And he's brilliant at both.

Except being a janitor. He's mediocre. But he's consistent.

 

[CM Punk]

That job would be a $2 per hour raise. I am not above pushing a broom.

 

[Oz]

$16 an hour, 40-hour week, 52 weeks = 33K a year

That's a mighty fine wage?

My first job came down to a choice between $17,200 to cover preps or $18,000 to cover D-II athletics. When you live in rural areas and not in New York, $33,000 can go quite far actually.

 

[HorseWhipped]

I had a job when I was young, just riding a tractor mower and cutting grass on big fields. Didn't pay much, and I wanted to get out of there and do something important.

I've been in newspapers for half my life now, doing something important, I guess, but the thrill is gone and we can't do it right anymore anyway.

These days I'm hoping to ride that tractor mower again.
Cut that grass the way grass is supposed to be cut.

 

[bigpern23]

I wasn't making much more than that when I left my last stop in early February. And I was there for seven years.

 

[Tom Petty]

$16 an hour, 40-hour week, 52 weeks = 33K a year

That's a mighty fine wage?

Thousands of journalists wish they could make that much.

my father, who worked for the state and didn't own a college degree, made $22 an hour back in 1981.

why should $16 an hour make any of us all that pleased?

 

[Angola!]

$16 an hour, 40-hour week, 52 weeks = 33K a year

That's a mighty fine wage?

Thousands of journalists wish they could make that much.

my father, who worked for the state and didn't own a college degree, made $22 an hour back in 1981.

why should $16 an hour make any of us all that pleased?

Can't say it pleases me, but I make less than that.

 

[Drip]

It's an outrage that a custodian engineer (janitor) makes more than a college educated scribe.

 

[JR]

It's an outrage that a custodian engineer (janitor) makes more than a college educated scribe.

How do you know the janitor isn't college educated?

 

[playthrough]

It's an outrage that a custodian engineer (janitor) makes more than a college educated scribe.

Disagree. As long as college-educated scribes continue to accept those paltry salaries (and yeah, I didn't make 33k 'til I was 28), it's not an outrage. It's simple economics.

 

[RickStain]

It's an outrage that a custodian engineer (janitor) makes more than a college educated scribe.

Disagree. As long as college-educated scribes continue to accept those paltry salaries (and yeah, I didn't make 33k 'til I was 28), it's not an outrage. It's simple economics.

I don't think being based on economic and being outrageous are mutually exclusive.