Most Common Jobs That Pay At Least Median Wage $23.11+Hour $48,068+Year

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Gizmo j

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Nov 9, 2013
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You guys don't think it would be smart to show up to interview in full gear?

Maybe I can just walk up to a construction sight in full gear and ask them if they need any help.
 

MrSquished

Lifer
Jan 14, 2013
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You guys don't think it would be smart to show up to interview in full gear?

Maybe I can just walk up to a construction sight in full gear and ask them if they need any help.

well if you make yourself look as hispanic as possible and say you have no papers, they might hire you for cash on the cheap.
 

lxskllr

No Lifer
Nov 30, 2004
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There is no gear. You need long pants, boots, and a shirt that covers your shoulders. Unless you're going for some rinkydink outfit, you probably aren't starting that day. There's paperwork and other stuff that has to be dealt with.
 

BoomerD

No Lifer
Feb 26, 2006
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You guys don't think it would be smart to show up to interview in full gear?

Maybe I can just walk up to a construction sight in full gear and ask them if they need any help.
With zero experience? Highly unlikely you'll get hired.
 

Torn Mind

Lifer
Nov 25, 2012
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A+ for creativity in posts.

No question is dumb, but it's highly unlikely they'll let you work with dangerous tools just because you show up in what you think is appropriate gear. There is some paperwork you have to sign to establish the legal relationship.

Some places have a referral service that will land you temp work as flagger, construction, etc. In fact, you might already know about it given your question...
 

Red Squirrel

No Lifer
May 24, 2003
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www.anyf.ca
You guys don't think it would be smart to show up to interview in full gear?

Maybe I can just walk up to a construction sight in full gear and ask them if they need any help.

This would have worked back in like the 80's. Now days you need licensing, certificates and all that stuff. And there needs to be an actual job opening and you need to apply and go through the interview process. They won't just hire some random smuck that walks up to the construction site lol. It's an employer's market right now, so the bar is set very high.
 

Fenixgoon

Lifer
Jun 30, 2003
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This would have worked back in like the 80's. Now days you need licensing, certificates and all that stuff. And there needs to be an actual job opening and you need to apply and go through the interview process. They won't just hire some random smuck that walks up to the construction site lol. It's an employer's market right now, so the bar is set very high.
in the US it is definitely not. unemployment is very low. 3.9%
 

BoomerD

No Lifer
Feb 26, 2006
63,166
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in the US it is definitely not. unemployment is very low. 3.9%
You're right...but to a degree, the Squirrel is also right. Unless it's some gypo contractor, just walking up and getting hired on the spot...WITH NO EXPERIENCE...ain't likely to happen. IF the OP seriously wants to become a construction laborer...and it's not a bad way to support yourself...then he'd better be getting some training...forklift certification, flagger certification, some of the many free "intro to construction" classes that are available.
 
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Red Squirrel

No Lifer
May 24, 2003
67,698
12,270
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www.anyf.ca
A lot of the jobs that are keeping the unemployment rate down are also minimum wage jobs like fast food etc. Lot of those people are most likely still trying to find a "real" job that they can actually live off of. Those jobs are the ones with a very high barrier of entry.
 

Torn Mind

Lifer
Nov 25, 2012
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A lot of the jobs that are keeping the unemployment rate down are also minimum wage jobs like fast food etc. Lot of those people are most likely still trying to find a "real" job that they can actually live off of. Those jobs are the ones with a very high barrier of entry.
He has orgs like PeopleReady to give him temp work and leads.

Actually, the whole showing up in gear question is what made me suspect he already knows about it but dresses down his questions to get a response.
 

Fenixgoon

Lifer
Jun 30, 2003
31,722
10,196
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A lot of the jobs that are keeping the unemployment rate down are also minimum wage jobs like fast food etc. Lot of those people are most likely still trying to find a "real" job that they can actually live off of. Those jobs are the ones with a very high barrier of entry.
which still means employers need to compete for labor. you can't be in two places at once.
 

MrSquished

Lifer
Jan 14, 2013
21,614
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You're right...but to a degree, the Squirrel is also right. Unless it's some gypo contractor, just walking up and getting hired on the spot...WITH NO EXPERIENCE...ain't likely to happen. IF the OP seriously wants to become a construction laborer...and it's not a bad way to support yourself...then he'd better be getting some training...forklift certification, flagger certification, some of the many free "intro to construction" classes that are available.
Sure for more skilled and specialized labor, but Squirrel only knows his teensy tiny little rural world and nothing more. He has shown it constantly. In general he is totally wrong. Do you know how many undocumented migrants help the construction and landscaping businesses around metropolitan areas thrive? I see them on job sites here. A client needs a good handyman, the guy I recommend he is now on the path to citizenship but he wasn't when he got here. He did what I've heard of numerous times - a rich fucker has housing for them, they get housing with their job, but they work like prisoners. They are not literally prisoners but they are worked like crazy and have very little life. They have no leverage with no papers. This is the real world, not some bumblefuck in Canada.
 

BoomerD

No Lifer
Feb 26, 2006
63,166
11,554
136
Sure for more skilled and specialized labor, but Squirrel only knows his teensy tiny little rural world and nothing more. He has shown it constantly. In general he is totally wrong. Do you know how many undocumented migrants help the construction and landscaping businesses around metropolitan areas thrive? I see them on job sites here. A client needs a good handyman, the guy I recommend he is now on the path to citizenship but he wasn't when he got here. He did what I've heard of numerous times - a rich fucker has housing for them, they get housing with their job, but they work like prisoners. They are not literally prisoners but they are worked like crazy and have very little life. They have no leverage with no papers. This is the real world, not some bumblefuck in Canada.
Those illegals could always stay home...they get zero sympathy from me about how hard life is.
 
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MrSquished

Lifer
Jan 14, 2013
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Those illegals could always stay home...they get zero sympathy from me about how hard life is.

It doesn't change the fact that Squirrel is wrong. And you know, that whole American dream about send us your rich and your poor. Also, this is how some of the wealthier with more power get richer. But as long as they aren't brown and poor, they get away with it. The guys with all the cookies get regular folks all worked up about the poor and illegals, insead of pointing the finger at the people in actual power who are really keeping more people down. You seem to have some reasonable political positions, I think in due time you might just stop carrying the water of those who area actually exploiting the most people possible to keep wealth concentrated, and stop pointing it at those with virtually no power.

 

Torn Mind

Lifer
Nov 25, 2012
11,764
2,677
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Sure for more skilled and specialized labor, but Squirrel only knows his teensy tiny little rural world and nothing more. He has shown it constantly. In general he is totally wrong. Do you know how many undocumented migrants help the construction and landscaping businesses around metropolitan areas thrive? I see them on job sites here. A client needs a good handyman, the guy I recommend he is now on the path to citizenship but he wasn't when he got here. He did what I've heard of numerous times - a rich fucker has housing for them, they get housing with their job, but they work like prisoners. They are not literally prisoners but they are worked like crazy and have very little life. They have no leverage with no papers. This is the real world, not some bumblefuck in Canada.
Their effect is mixed bag. The ones who have to follow the rules cannot necessarily compete on price.
 
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