There's a basic tale of woe and then at the root of it is about $70K in debt for college / university. It's unknown what university has to do with getting a job as a bank teller since it's an entry-level position, typically with no experience necessary. There's some mention of a degree necessary for a more-advanced position as teller but even that's a ludicrous proposition when the job tops at about $30K.
Here's the scribe The Guardian: I work at a bank and I'm $86,000 in debt
Here's a listing on the availability of bank teller jobs as in all over the place. Monster: Bank Teller Jobs (over 1000)
I noticed a listing for a bank teller position in Rhode Island where I worked and it's not surprising when they turnover tellers all the time. A bank is a horrible place to work due to low pay, slow advancement, and expensive clothes required to present in a bankerish manner.
Note: this is not sour grapes on my part as I made a lot of money and got jacked at the end of it. Neighborhood bank managers don't come close to the salaries paid to sysfrogs. The career path for them is an almost-guaranteed dead end. Mystery Lady also worked in a bank IT center and she was horrified by it as well. They're awful and don't ever do it.
In comments about the matter earlier, the result was Ms Guevara never should have gone to college / university in the first place and it sure as hell wasn't a real university since they don't teach such things. How she managed to spend seventy grand on what was essentially a secretarial school is unimaginable as she got seriously hustled. What reasonable counselor will suggest such an educational strategy when there isn't the faintest hope of recovering her educational investment in her life when her take-home salary is, at best, $25K. She will be lucky if she ever pays off just the loan and she probably can't but there's no option for bankruptcy since they will bust you for defaulting. She looks just about completely screwed.
Whining about the debt is fair enough as no kid should be saddled with such a mountain of backbreaking debt but the reasons for it are rather less than realistic and someone had more money than sense.
(Ed: not anymore!)
It's an easy thing with kids, isn't it. Tell them just about anything and they will believe it except for the discerning few who chop through it all. In my view, that's a failure in education in general but that gets too nebulous for anything particularly coherent just now.
Recently I even saw an online program to earn a Masters Degree and, fuckin' hell, that's how they once taught motorcycle mechanics from articles at the back of "Popular Mechanics." It's a blazing disgrace that such hustles are so widespread and so widely-accepted as valid. There's some major educational predation taking place and it's not at the real universities but the ones striking the pose. Those ones will bleed a kid dry.
Here's the scribe The Guardian: I work at a bank and I'm $86,000 in debt
Here's a listing on the availability of bank teller jobs as in all over the place. Monster: Bank Teller Jobs (over 1000)
I noticed a listing for a bank teller position in Rhode Island where I worked and it's not surprising when they turnover tellers all the time. A bank is a horrible place to work due to low pay, slow advancement, and expensive clothes required to present in a bankerish manner.
Note: this is not sour grapes on my part as I made a lot of money and got jacked at the end of it. Neighborhood bank managers don't come close to the salaries paid to sysfrogs. The career path for them is an almost-guaranteed dead end. Mystery Lady also worked in a bank IT center and she was horrified by it as well. They're awful and don't ever do it.
In comments about the matter earlier, the result was Ms Guevara never should have gone to college / university in the first place and it sure as hell wasn't a real university since they don't teach such things. How she managed to spend seventy grand on what was essentially a secretarial school is unimaginable as she got seriously hustled. What reasonable counselor will suggest such an educational strategy when there isn't the faintest hope of recovering her educational investment in her life when her take-home salary is, at best, $25K. She will be lucky if she ever pays off just the loan and she probably can't but there's no option for bankruptcy since they will bust you for defaulting. She looks just about completely screwed.
Whining about the debt is fair enough as no kid should be saddled with such a mountain of backbreaking debt but the reasons for it are rather less than realistic and someone had more money than sense.
(Ed: not anymore!)
It's an easy thing with kids, isn't it. Tell them just about anything and they will believe it except for the discerning few who chop through it all. In my view, that's a failure in education in general but that gets too nebulous for anything particularly coherent just now.
Recently I even saw an online program to earn a Masters Degree and, fuckin' hell, that's how they once taught motorcycle mechanics from articles at the back of "Popular Mechanics." It's a blazing disgrace that such hustles are so widespread and so widely-accepted as valid. There's some major educational predation taking place and it's not at the real universities but the ones striking the pose. Those ones will bleed a kid dry.
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