bearboiblake [he/him]@pawb.social to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days agoit's a matter of motivationquokk.auimagemessage-square289linkfedilinkarrow-up11.7Karrow-down116cross-posted to: programmer_humor@programming.dev
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minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25arrow-down1·6 days agoVolunteer firefighters do actually still get paid a lot of the time. Source: Was volunteer firefighter. Was paid per-call.
minus-squareChainweasel@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·6 days agoSame, 6 years from 2005-2011, $7.50 an hour for a call was great money in 2005. I think we were up to $10 by the time I quit
minus-squarethermal_shock@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-25 days agoI was thinking that was shit money, but I was making $2.13 as a waiter in 1999-2000, so that’s about right. I made $5.15 for awhile, then min wage was finally raised to $7.25, where it’s been for almost 20 years.
minus-squarebearboiblake [he/him]@pawb.socialOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·6 days agoThanks for sharing that - out of curiosity, would you still have done it if it wasn’t paid? No judgment, just curious!
minus-squareEncrypt-Keeper@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 day agoMost firefighters in the U.S. are volunteer, and make no money at all. Being paid per call is not the norm.
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·6 days agoHell yeah! I didn’t even know I would be getting paid until I went down to the station to ask how I sign up.
minus-squarebearboiblake [he/him]@pawb.socialOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·6 days agoGood for you! Thanks for being a good human <3
minus-squarekungen@feddit.nulinkfedilinkarrow-up3·6 days agoIsn’t it just a small stipend? Nothing you could live on, even if houses were burning down 40 hours a week.
Volunteer firefighters do actually still get paid a lot of the time.
Source: Was volunteer firefighter. Was paid per-call.
Same, 6 years from 2005-2011, $7.50 an hour for a call was great money in 2005. I think we were up to $10 by the time I quit
I was thinking that was shit money, but I was making $2.13 as a waiter in 1999-2000, so that’s about right. I made $5.15 for awhile, then min wage was finally raised to $7.25, where it’s been for almost 20 years.
Thanks for sharing that - out of curiosity, would you still have done it if it wasn’t paid? No judgment, just curious!
Most firefighters in the U.S. are volunteer, and make no money at all. Being paid per call is not the norm.
Hell yeah! I didn’t even know I would be getting paid until I went down to the station to ask how I sign up.
Good for you! Thanks for being a good human <3
Isn’t it just a small stipend? Nothing you could live on, even if houses were burning down 40 hours a week.