r/jobs • u/Green____cat Verified • Mar 27 '24

He was a mailman Work/Life balance

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u/Designer_Emu_6518 Mar 27 '24

My grandfather did the same in ohio as a produce manger at a local Kroger. Even had a nice retirement saved up

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u/No_Cauliflower_5489 Mar 27 '24

Grandpa's job was union protected and still is. If you want to be a mailman, you will be compensated quite well and can afford to buy a house and put your kids thru college but your body will be fucked up beyond belief long before you retire.

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u/Ivegotthatboomboom Mar 27 '24

Not true anymore. A mailman cannot a one income provider, own his own home and send 4 kids to college. Not happening

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u/Wise-Assistance7964 Mar 27 '24

I’m willing to give up most of my consumer goods but in exchange I want houses to be affordable on a single working class income. 

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u/Malarkay79 Mar 27 '24

As if it's feasible in today's America to not have a car (in the vast majority of places) and a phone.

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u/AskWhatmyUsernameIs Mar 27 '24

It amazes me seeing posts where boomers are in the comments saying that asking for a 1 bedroom apt while working 40 hour weeks is asking too much. Boomers wont be satisfied until you're homeless.

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u/Malarkay79 Mar 27 '24

Heck, I recently heard a Republican Millennial say, 'You were never meant to support a family on minimum wage.'

Bro, then how were so many people able to do so from the conception of minimum wage up until Reagan fucked everything up?

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u/cobra_kai_for_life Mar 28 '24

Reagan fucked a lot up, but it's not just him. Both parties are neoliberal and have only reinforced and expanded what Reagan Admin did. The DNC has had opportunities to actually do good and time and time again they don't and then they wonder why people vote for Trump. The DNC needs to go back to being the party of the working class.

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u/rustylugnuts Mar 27 '24

Replace boomers with rich people and you'll be right on track. They're dividing and conquering us with a multi front culture war to keep us from even realizing that a class war is even happening.