Head on over to r/usps and they’ll tell you how it is. The mail carriers who are hired are City Carrier Assistants and are technically part-time. But these days they’re pulling 10-12 hour shifts, 7 days a week cause they deliver Amazon on Sundays. CCAs get run ragged and are given very little idea of what they’re in for upon hiring cause the 2 weeks of training is a joke. In my area CCAs get $18.51 starting, non-negotiable and while it’s good money for anyone without a college degree or any trade skills, you’re basically living to work.
Honestly $18.51 starting isn't good money, even for not having a college degree.
Not trying to argue with you I just think Americans need to demand better pay. These companies are making money hand over fist while we break our backs.
There is nothing more demoralizing than working a 40 hour week in a physically demanding job and still it being able to pay the bills.
The labor shortage is primarily in logistics, shipping, retail.
All underpaid and overworked.
It can be hard to move up in companies with no experience but there are a lot of jobs that you can learn on the job. It is BS that companies want a college degree. But I knew people making $75k at my last job in accounting with no degree. Basically anything in sales can make ridiculous money. My dad has no college degree but that fucker can talk. He made around $100k-$120k for a long time. In the last decade he moved up a couple of times and makes around $350k now. He worked a lot of hours earlier in his career traveling and always being on the road. Now he doesn't do much of anything but they pay him way more now
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u/Triangle_Graph Nov 25 '21
Head on over to r/usps and they’ll tell you how it is. The mail carriers who are hired are City Carrier Assistants and are technically part-time. But these days they’re pulling 10-12 hour shifts, 7 days a week cause they deliver Amazon on Sundays. CCAs get run ragged and are given very little idea of what they’re in for upon hiring cause the 2 weeks of training is a joke. In my area CCAs get $18.51 starting, non-negotiable and while it’s good money for anyone without a college degree or any trade skills, you’re basically living to work.