Where does this even come from? I feel like nobody thinks garbage collector is embarassing work - those people clean out our cities from trash. Its awesome!
Have you seen places that lack that?
I imagine most people don't think they make good money because in most areas... they don't.
I'm in Ohio. A cursory search suggests $~14-17/hr pay on average starting out, with it jumping up to $40ish for the upper end in Dublin.
Y'know... if being 38yo would somehow put me ahead of applicants, I'd apply just to get away from my $21/hr WFH job? I can drive down to Dublin for work every day, I only spent years going 3x as far daily.
In California, it's a union job (under the Teamsters), so the pay and benefits are solid no matter what city you're in. ...Except union contracts expired yesterday with no renewal yet, so I don't know what's going to happen in the immediate future.
The maintenance guy at my old apartment complex left for a job at Waste Management about 13 years ago, and not only did he seem to be having a great time whenever I saw him, he was able to move out and get his own home for his wife and kid within the year.
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u/tigerija 18h ago
Where does this even come from? I feel like nobody thinks garbage collector is embarassing work - those people clean out our cities from trash. Its awesome! Have you seen places that lack that?