No hate for the middle class. I can’t help but enjoy the irony of people who thought they had solidarity with capital talking like Ned Ludd all of a sudden.

  • PrettyLights@lemmy.world
    21·
    5 months ago

    That first job also had a seasoned professional graphic designer with multiple decades of experience and she wasn’t making much more than I was.

    How seasoned could they be if they weren’t able to demand a raise or work somewhere else for more as a UX Designer? How could a seasoned professional be so close to entry level, and minimum wage?

    Know your worth, companies aren’t just going to hand you money to be nice. Negotiate, and if they don’t play ball, prove you’re as good as you think you are somewhere else.

      • PrettyLights@lemmy.world
        11·
        5 months ago

        Some of us have been working remote since way before Covid.

        Skill level doesn’t equal pay level directly, but if you have decades of experience in a technical field like UX Design and are still making close to minimum wage in the USA, that does sound like a skill issue.

          • PrettyLights@lemmy.world
            12·
            5 months ago

            You ignored the fact that myself and many others were working remote many years ago. Even using the old project middleman websites would have made more than minimum wage.

            Why was moving impossible? Programming is full of foreign nationals who left their family, culture, languages, etc to try and make a better life for themselves but we can’t move to a different city and try?

            Decades of UX Design experience, near minimum wage…

            Victim Mentality

              • PrettyLights@lemmy.world
                11·
                5 months ago

                First it was “decades of experience” now it’s “maybe 11 years” those are big differences.

                I never mentioned silicon valley or VC bubbles, no one can predict the future. But if someone with decades of experience as you put it was making nearly minimum wage, they should have at least tried commuting or moving to their nearest Metropolitan area. “We’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas!”

                  • PrettyLights@lemmy.world
                    11·
                    5 months ago

                    You may have been confused or I may have mistyped. I don’t know this person’s salary, but I know mine. I was paid minimum wage, and only ever got a $0.50 / hour raise.

                    I’m not confused, you wrote the following:

                    There’s FAANG and then there’s everyone else. Some jobs can be pretty bad in terms of pay. That first job also had a seasoned professional graphic designer with multiple decades of experience and she wasn’t making much more than I was.

                    You claimed to know at least an approximation of their salary with decades of experience, which was not much more than yours was, at minimum wage + $0.50. That’s ridiculous if true. Even if they only had 11 actual years of web experience + the other years in other related design pre-internet.

                    You keep changing your history and points to fit your narrative. I understand anonymizing things but you’re making specific claims then saying you don’t know when called out.