If the economy is "Booming" then why are large U.S. firms laying off thousands of workers?

I am 100% telling you that it has, in a relative sense, quite little value and in a relative sense has massively lost value over the last 25 years.

At my college orientation they announced that as of that year they would no longer let people major in journalism without double-majoring in something else. You know a career track is dying when money grubbing college administrations feels it's just too unemployable to let you graduate in it without having a backup.

Unless you graduated college in 1990, you should have seen this coming. It's not even an obscure fact - as a journalism major I assume you read the news and it's been a major story for as long as I can remember.

So yeah, I can't say I'm surprised you can't negotiate - makes total sense given your career choice.

Did you try to negotiate sales positions (I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you meant actual career based ones and not something like telemarketing) because you had a great sales record somewhere else that you could show or were they your first job/new job after you failed to make the quote at your last one?

The fact that the companies rescinded offers because you tried to negotiate tells me either you fundamentally misunderstood the nature of the job (which makes me think by sales you mean telemarketing) or you were obnoxious - companies reject attempts to negotiate all the time but I don't know anyone who had an offer rescinded for just negotiating.

Friend is up to $20 so far. It's a low-pay industry for sure but not a bad outcome for a guy who dropped out at 14 and was an orphan. I can see him being a general manager on a bigger level and getting to $80k - maybe more - the way he's going.

Yeah writing pays very little. That's why most writers have day jobs. You can literally be a New York Times bestselling author and still need a day job - it's not uncommon. Did you not look into this at all before you chose your line of work?

You don't have to be a doctor or an engineer. But if you go to college you presumably have the belief that doing so will pay off - meaning you can pay off whatever loans you got and then make more than you would otherwise. Plenty of people don't but that's really dumb - why would you spend so much money on something that won't make you any?

Why would you even negotiate before you had an offer? The whole point of negotiating is that you already know they want you more than the others so you try to get more out of them. Was sales the only job you applied for? I know journalism is a tough field to get hired in these days, but there's a bunch of shit more relevant for someone whose main skill is writing and research.

Sounds like you did a bad job, gave up, and decided doing hard labor is better. Should've saved yourself some tuition money.

And yes, as an immigrant refugee who grew up in the hood clearly the reason I'm pointing out that you're shit at finding work and apparently refused to learn how to do so means I'm a snob.

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