What do you consider a fair starting salary?

Chip · Mar 1, 2020

Destin said: ↑

So I left my research job, since I didn't benefit from it anymore having already been accepted to grad school and not being paid fairly, and got a new job as a bartender at a restaurant only a couple blocks away. Today was my first shift, and apparently I'm good at it. Made $128 between salary and tips in a 4 hour dinner shift. I would have made $40 in that same time as a researcher.

I'm stunned. I don't understand how pouring alcohol into a glass is worth triple what scientific research is to the economy, but I'm certainly enjoying it. A girl left me her phone number on the check too.

Who knew years worth of making drinks for friends at parties could translate so well into a paying job haha.
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The disparity of pay among jobs is one of the most annoying things I've run into. Teachers and social workers and people who are responsible for the care and well being of children and vulnerable adults are often among th lowest paid, while jobs such as bartender, or, frequently, relatively menial jobs working for tech companies can pay obscenely well. Good on you for getting out of the lousy underpaid research position. Just be careful that the bartending job doesn't feed further into an issue with alcohol that I remember you talking about earlier.

What do you consider a fair starting salary?

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