Yep. I just used google here to see how much money I make in US dollars, and I'm in the (10-18k) camp.
I work the graveyard shift at a bakery. It's been a little over 2 years now. The nature of my position is I do everything that needs to be done, basically. I'm only unhappy when my boss is around. He used to be pretty cool, but for some reason he's changed a lot in the last year or so. Thankfully, I don't really see him, except when he arrives early in the morning to actually open the place, but by that time I'm about to leave, so he doesn't bother me too much.
It's only me, another dude and a girl, and I guess you could say we are all fuck ups. We all got our college degrees but we've done nothing with them. There's a lot of banter, and we laugh pretty much from the hour we start until we're done. The work environment there is fucking hilarious so at least there's that. We've actually received complaints before because we were too loud.
In our time there, we came up with a few recipes and ideas of our own (don't tell my boss I'm using his ingredients) so when it's time to leave, instead of going home we still have to deliver these cakes, breads and other pastries we make during the night to make some extra money, and it's a decent amount of money every day, to be honest, which I did not take into account when I answered the poll.
Not at all what I expected to be doing at 28, but you know what, I really like doing this. I used to hate it, but not anymore. I guess that's what I get for kind of ruining my own career at the very beginning and then pissing away the next 10 years of my life doing nothing of value. This didn't bother me for a very long time, but I've been trying to turn my life around for the past 2, 3 years. It's pretty difficult when you don't have the spare time you used to have as a teenager, though. Good news is, the three of us learned a lot there and if things go our way, there's a good chance we will have our own business in the next 12 months or so.
tldr: Yea, I'm employed.
