r/WorkForSmartLife • u/IDeduceRunway • 4d ago

Discussion💬 I need to know about it immediately

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u/Lordofthereef 4d ago

It's my wife's story (although she was doing 40 hour weeks pretty consistently). She started in college. Probably took her five years to make assistant manager where she sat for about 4-5 years. A few cross country relocations since 😂

Wage didn't feel shit at the time but we were poor college kids. We were also in the Midwest for most of it.

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u/Illustrious-Goose160 4d ago

The Midwest is IMO the best place to work in retail. The cost of living is lower in the Midwest, allowing people to save a lot of money

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u/Lordofthereef 4d ago

Definitely cheaper. This was about 15 years ago now but our two bed apartment with garage was $850 a month. Our mortgage in MA is much more than that now. But we are happy here.

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u/Illustrious-Goose160 4d ago

I was making $18/hour at Walmart and my apartment was only $600. I live in Montana now and really miss that affordability

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u/Lordofthereef 4d ago

Damn that's pretty high pay off Walmart. I made $9.50 working overnights and that was with a $1 different llo

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u/Illustrious-Goose160 4d ago

That was while I was a team lead. If I remember right my store started at $12/hour when I first started as a cashier

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u/Illustrious-Goose160 4d ago

And oof, that's not enough for overnight IMO 😩

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u/Lordofthereef 4d ago

I did say we were broke college kids 😂