87,000 isn’t exactly a “Few” and there’s nothing wrong with being a startup. It’s no different from some reviewer from a local rag selling 10k copies trying to review a restaurant.

False.

I’ve done sales and marketing for almost 2 decades and her ask is not crazy. People need to get out of their, “I hate youtubers, influencers, millennials, or whatever” bubbles and realize that this is a young woman who was just trying to run her business like she’s been told it should be run probably by people above…

But, as a 49-year-old, you know NEVER to put anything in writing that could come back to bite you - especially with the Internet. She should have telephoned and made her pitch, whereupon White Moose management would have laughed in her face and hung up on her, leaving her with private hurt feelings instead of public…

Not gonna lie. I love that “Freebies” t-shirt.

This was a bad date. She had a horrible date with a clueless guy who thought he was being sexy and hot. She was made to feel uncomfortable, and it wasn’t right.

She sounds like an opportunist though.

Thank you for pushing back against some of the judgement in this thread. The sentiment that any worker and every worker can ‘bootstraps’ themselves to a good job (if only they have the drive, humbleness, and tenacity these successful posters did) is not one I expected to see put forth so strongly in the comments…

“Unpaid or minimum wage legal internships/clerkships for new grads were still widely available.”

I see what you mean, but I think there’s middle ground between “any job” and “the perfect job” - sometimes people are treated like they’re being snobbish or lazy for holding out for a good job, but the reality is that when you’re starting out a career the job you take can make a difference. That’s your base salary,…

I think I am, and they rest on the idea that people in predicaments like LW2's are simply refusing work. Even if she were working, half her paycheck would be going into paying back loans so she’ll still be living with her shitty family.

Thank you for saying this. At my first job out of college, I was making under 30K and even after being promoted twice, only ever saw a top salary of 32K. I got totally and completed screwed, and it’s tiresome seeing people acting like just they did x, you can too. I was privileged enough to have parents who didn’t…

I know what you’re saying, but it’s better to have a country where corporations aren’t allowed to exploit workers. Sure, working your way up is totally fine and legit, but being taken advantage of and underpaid is not. And even though you made it, doesn’t mean everyone’s story is the same. I’ve always respected your…

Thank you! I think I am the same age as the poster above (graduated undergrad in 2008) and I feel like we of all people should remember just how hard it can be to get any job, since we came out right as the recession hit. I did so many temp jobs (for over a year), because I could not find even a full-time…

Yes. There seems to be real confusion here between getting a job to get a little independence, and working at toilet polisher to somehow work your way up to CEO via the hustle.

“Its crazy kids today think they need to sit around waiting for the perfect job to come around.”

Have you ever heard of the “crab bucket” analogy? Basically, if you put a bunch of crabs in a bucket, they’ll literally crawl all over each other trying to get out. And while it’s true that the crab at the top made it out because they worked harder than all the other crabs, the real problem is that someone put all the…

I’m amazed reading your reading comments.

Have you browsed for an internship recently?

“Its crazy kids today think they need to sit around waiting for the perfect job to come around.” Are you for real?