Be unemployed

I don't know what the minimum wage is where you live, but 500 a week isn't bad at all for what's basically an entry-level job with no skills or education required.

that's 2 grand a month, I live in Oregon and I can afford my 3 bedroom apartment that I usually have to split rent with 2 other people for that mucha month.

Depends on the state.

>500 a week

This is by no stretch a bad job. That's around 24k a year for a job you'll spend doing things you love, meeting new potential friends every day (even if you come to dislike a lot of them) and ultimately, you'd likely be able to do other work part time either after hours or during the job to make cash (like copy writing online). At worst it's a stepping stone to a better job and money in your pocket, plus it's an opportunity to be an understudy for running your own business.

California, in the land of "Everyone is a fucking Mexican."

I hope you'll enjoy dealing with the turboautists.
Don't forget, the customer is always right. :^)

Lucky you. Congrats on your new job!

So you get $1000 biweekly. In Cali, given some of the ridiculous apartment costs, I can see how that might not be the greatest. But holy shit would I kill for that right now dude. Then again I live in rural Pennsylvania where minimum wage is only $7.50

>About... 500 bucks a week
>not the best job
The minimum wage in my country is 320 euros a month. You get 2k burgers a month as a clerk doing most likely a slow job that you enjoy. Go fuck yourself you little shit

>25k a year for clerical work
Nigga you what.
I know this post is 5 hours old, but it's still retarded.

Yeah I doubt that. Game stores don't pay shit.

What EU country do you live in? I'm guessing somewhere all the way east? Minimum wage over here in western yurop is 1,5k

Lithuania

In soviet Russia, we're poorer than you!

Can someone tell this mong in his native eastbloc-ese that he needs to account for the actual purchasing power of the euro/dollar in the region in question?

You lucky bastard.

What are you paying in rent?

>native eastbloc-ese
Real funny, considering my country was shit on by russians and germans for hundreds of years

Everyone has problems,
тoвapищ. Cry me a river.

Clearly some have way less problems when 500 bucks a week is considered bad

keep in mind rent is about 1k a month for an apartment in the city

Purchasing power, you eastern bloc muck raker. Read up on it.

It may surprise you, but i pay the same for everything, which is why everyone's emmigrating the fuck out. Frankly, hardware here costs more than in burgerland despite euro being fucked

That's above both minimum wage for an over-25 and "living wage" (what the government says we should pay everyone but doesn't legally enforce), in the UK.

That's bretty gud.

It really depends on how much your food/shelter costs are, man.

Rent on my last apartment was like $2,100; split three ways and on the doormat of a college campus, so they gouged their prices like theaters gouge on food, but no unheard of in places like New York City where living space is premium.

It'd help if you elaborated on the cost of living in Lithuania.

Don't just look at imported high-end luxury goods, for fuck's sake. I guarantee you don't pay the same for food and housing as he does.

>the cost of living
Let's say that the minimum wage is literally minimum

This is basically how I got my first job at gamestop. I showed up so much and made friends with the manager. He called me on my 16th birthday and asked if one wanted a job.

It's great getting a job off social merit alone. Good job OP.

You're a fucking idiot, you know that?

Amazing.

So it's exactly like the U.S. where being on minimum wage means you might be able to live in a shit apartment if you split rent three ways.

That doesn't really mean a lot.

Let's not, because that's of fuckall use for any sort of comparison.

Did your parents keep you home from school in order to work the muck fields?

It could be worse. I could be Lithuanian.

Indeed, not everyone can be a pampered shit

To those upset at OP calling 500 a week "not the best job", calm your tits. Just because you're all extreme poorfags doesn't mean user should be proud of 500 a week. Its nice that he has a job where he can afford to not starve, but he knows he can do better and so do you, thus he's self-concious about it and that's okay.

I'm a half-brain-dead retard who barely has a high school education, and I make 900 CAD, which comes out to about 700 US at current exchange rate. I am glad OP has a job he enjoys (I sure as fuck don't enjoy mine), but if you're going to be jelly over money, you'd better be jelly over something a bit better than that.

>everyone's emmigrating the fuck out
Everyone who has a marketable skill to offer in real Europe, that is.

>y-your're pampered!
The eternal refrain of third-world plebs.

Second-world

>How stressing is being a LGS clerk?
Unless you're a piece of shit, not at all.
Also make sure you actually fucking work, otherwise you'll prove my mantra of "Never hire magic players" yet again. Magic players have, on average, some of the worst work ethics of FLGS customers I've ever seen, with yugi being the absolute worst.
Oh and it's a job, not an excuse to play games. I can't tell you how many employees that were fired over this.

Im a Web developer and I make $540 a week post-college. My mortgage is $848 a month and that's before expenses. Mississippi is hell, but at least the housing costs are good. My house is 20 minutes from work and 2800 sqft made of brick.

I wouldn't advertise that, comrade.

Do all web developers make that little? I always imagined web development to be location-independent, because even if you live in Mississippi your websites could easily be for people in New York.

He didn't say he was independent, he could just be hired there.

I work for a specific company developing their specific websites. You're thinking of a freelance Web Developer. Like all freelance work, that depends 100% on how lucky you get getting good clients. I've done freelance computer work for over 8 years now and sometimes you just don't have any clients; especially in mississippi.

But no, 34k a year is the average in Mississippi. It's what most people make. If I was in Oregon, I would be making around 74k.

Except you live in Mississippi, which is worth like -200k a year because it's so shit

Depends. My house is probably worth 300k to 500k somewhere else. It's a pretty nice house. So let's assume 300k, that's 3 times what I paid for it. So my mortgage would be $2500 anywhere else. So 34k here is actually worth around 102k anywhere big.

"The customer is always right" was never a business policy, it was an advertising slogan, and it was made by a fool who ran his business into the ground and died penniless.

Everyone replying to this seriously.

First post had me believing it, this is just bait now.

Stop cheating those trips Yugi.

It's the heart of the digits...

Basically, do your work, don't be a fucking moron and try to steal anything, and don't assault any of the customers even if they deserve it. If you do these things, you'll have a low-level job somewhere you can enjoy, and even get some hobby time inbetween as long as you're responsible.

If you're smart, you've just landed yourself a job with benefits.

shouldn't be stressful at all.

I work with a lot of clients and what I can say is that the more sheepish and unsocialized they are the easier it is to do my job without them getting in the way.

When the local sperglord goes on a rampage just remain professional as if it were any other store and tell him to get his shit out.

>friends with the owner
>500 a week for nothing
>HE asks YOU to work there
Dude, that's what we call "upward potential", if you don't suck and take the time to learn a thing or two from him, you may have just bought yourself a free LGS.

>1k/month apartment
>In a city of CA
user, I need to know where you are finding these

I'm an intern at one of the big four tech companies this summer. It's actually kinda terrifying how much they pay us because I have never had this much money in my life. My salary is 1500 weekly before taxes and SDEs here start at 2250 per week.

You lucky fucking bastard. Do you have any idea how many of my problems a job like that would solve? Several of them!

This HAS to be bait

NO game store makes that much

FUCK I'm rustled, good b8 OP you hooked me in.

You obvious have never worked/ran a game store before. If it's run like a business and not a fucking club, you make bank.

FLGS's basically make around half of each items sale as profit, which needs to get spent on other assets and bills, so if you sell 1k magic packs a month at $4 each, you've got 2k profit to fool with. That alone pays for a worker and a stores rent in most places.

Now imagine the sell a lot more product then that, and buy magic singles low then sell them high. Are you getting the picture? You should be.

Ok, and? 500 weekly means you're making 2k a month as the fannyflustered europoor pointed out. Assuming you aren't a complete moron and understand the concept of budgeting you'd be able to pay rent and still have a few hundred dollars to fuck about with at the end of every month after you take into account other living expenses like grocery bills, clothing costs, and potentially vehicle maintenance if OP has a car.

A lot of Mexicans are alright in my book. I don't see why that's a problem. Most of them I meet, in fact honestly. They don't cause a lot of trouble, they work, what more you could you ask for?

Granted I live in a largely agricultural community in Jefferson, and most of them are agricultural workers in one way or the other. They HAVE jobs. I imagine they would be less endearing if they didn't have jobs or the opportunity for them. Otherwise they dress a lot like most of the long timer white folks, drive the same kind of trucks, have similar values, and aren't much trouble.

Well, you'll be working retail.

You poor, poor sod.

How do you even know he's American?

If he's Canadian then that is indeed a shit job at minimum wage + ~$2 (depending on province but they're all $10-$12 min.), and since Canadaland pays twice as much for everything and has a shit dollar, it will be roughly equivalent to minimum wage in the US.

You are literally the first person I have seen use that term correctly. High five!

Hell, I've dated a Hispanic chick.

To be fair, she was of the "middle class family of nurses and business people, doesn't know Spanish, Americanized in all but skin color" Hispanic type, but nevertheless.

I'd rather leave this dump

underrated post

That is a lot, especially for an intern. What do you do, exactly? Perhaps more important: what are the qualifications for such an internship?

Luck at being born in the right place

Isn't part of the eurozone thing supposed to be that you can in fact easily relocate to a less shitty euro country? Do you not have any skills that employers in the non-bad countries want or something?

Are you american?

It still beats retail.

But yeah the job ain't easy.

>It still beats retail.
It IS retail, it's just retail you give a shit about, and have to maybe rent tables or TO at.

Yeah. Was my previous post entirely wrong?

What do you do? If it is unskilled labour, you're straight out of luck, but if you have some skilled trade, or better yet an engineering degree (long shot, I know), you can easily find a job in a less-shitty part of Europe or abroad in places like Canada or Australia.

If you don't have such a thing, then your best bet is to go back to school. Germany offers free tuition, even to foreigners, and its a top place for training engineers.

We have a thing called "language barriers" here, the eurozone is for traveling and trade

Yeah, basically. One problem with that is that EU does not have common language and for many people the only foreign language they know is English, which only makes you eligible for UK and maybe Finland (because Finns accepted that asking foreigner to learn their native is crazy).
And getting job as a second-worlder in the UK is all kinds of wonky right now.

>Germany offers free tuition, even to foreigners
All foreginers or just the rapefugees?

Up here in Sweden, there is no minmum wage. You can pay your workers as little as you want.

Of course, you get $350 a month plus rent, electricity, medical expenses, dental care etc etc etc if you're on welfare here, so good luck getting anyone to work for you for less than that.

All foreigners. Americans, Lithuanians, Africans, Russians, anyone.

Is retail at a gamestore, better than the shit job that's working in a supermarket at minimum wage.

>some prissy pencil pusher denigrating the honest work of a muck farmer
>when the heaviest thing you lift on a daily basis is your own ass out of a desk chair

Oh, ok. that makes sense.

If not for the whole 'open borders' thing, this actually sounds like a pretty good idea.

If that's your biggest problem, then it can easily be solved. You're clearly decent with languages, as your English is pretty good. You also have a computer. Here:
thepiratebay.org/torrent/7035678/Rosetta_Stone_v3.4.7_w_Patch.iso
thepiratebay.org/torrent/8262912/Rosetta_Stone_-_French_-_Level_1__2__3__4__5
thepiratebay.org/torrent/7062004/Rosetta_Stone_-_German_-_Level_1__2__3__4__5_w_Companion

It'll take a bit of time, but you will get the hang of it.

user, english is piss easy to learn to any sensible european due to its simplicity

>French
Don't come to France, Lithuanianon. It's all fucked.

Don't worry about it. The neo-nazis are getting more influence with every passing year.

Seriously, though, the fact that any hobo can get free dental is a bit of a problem, and a lot of people are skeptical toward some of this stuff. I know of a guy who got his entire mouth filled with titanium, then overdosed and died two months later. What a waste.

I know a frog, he already told me how fucked it is

You know, there's only one proper FLGS in my city and it does a lot of business, but it's a bit out of the way. There's a good spot at a cheap price I could purchase right in the downtown area near a major college. Should I become a hella baller FLGS owner?

>near a major college
Sounds like you'd print money

I get by thanks to denial and meds.