valleywag.com — Soon America's most bright-eyed graduates will enter the workforce and make their workaday homes in cubes at Google, MySpace, or Amazon.com. And they will suffer not just the indignity of having to work for a living, but also the dispiriting realization that a job at a cool company isn't always that hot.
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domfosnzMay 21, 2008
Yep, they look pretty bleak.
dlite922May 22, 2008
Once you own your own company, you'll never go back to the 9-5 work. I've owned my company since 05 and already making close to 60 a year and maybe more this year. its tough, its not easy at all. But once you taste the freedom of it, you'll never want a boss again, only customers. But not all people can handle this or have this mindset. To me if you have to deal with customers, why not deal with them in a way when you don't like them, you can tell them to f**k off....I know its stupid reputation-wise...but trust me there are those who you at least can deter to someone else or say sorry, i can't help you.
drmangrumMay 22, 2008
Bulls**t article. No company hires an "entry-level" DBA, especially Google. The story they have listed is probably from when they experienced massive growth. In any event, 70k is hardly entry level.
poppacherryMay 22, 2008
Being a young person in the entertainment business, I can say that any of these jobs is worthy of people's time. If you look at it as an investment, have a good attitude, remain true to yourself and consistent, you'll move up the ladder. I was offered two internships over a Fox this summer and Fall (one for Myspace Records). They're unpaid of course, but I don't get caught up in that. Just go in there with a positive attitude and remember how I even landed those hard to get spots....oh, and having a passion seems to help too lol
desdinovaelMay 22, 2008
Innocent children are being murdered in Darfur with machetes as you read this.
subassyMay 22, 2008
In case anybody doesn't realize Google's HQ is in the San Francisco Bay Area where EVERYTHING is more expensive (people tip way larger as well) so 70k in that area is not the same as 70k in Wyoming or Texas or whatever. In the Bay Area you would pay an incredibly large amount of money for a crappy little apartment with several room mates in a terrible neighborhood with a several hour commute time. Course if you commute in from Sacramento or some other outlying area maybe that'd be a different story (it's only four hours one way in the car).
babywookieMay 23, 2008
Are you serious? They should be thankful that the capitalist parasite is willing to pay them at all? Really. It's true that the median family income is $44,389 a year. It is also true that an average American worker produces about $90,000 worth a year. So, he is getting shorted at least $50G. That $50G goes towards the parasite living his decadent life-style: owning multiple luxury sports cars, mansions, private jets, yachts, etc. Yet, the parasite demands loyalty and hard work. Screw that.
kenzanMay 23, 2008
With the exception that she considers pure Capitalists "parasites."