In America, productivity is measured by the lengths the average joe goes to earn $5.60 an hour.
A man who works 72 hours / week @ $5.60 but effectively nets after taxes and expenses $1.12 an hour only gets $80.64 a week.
This works out to $4032 a year or $336 of money a month to spend on luxuries, possibly most of it going to rent, smokes, the occasional recreational drug, and other sundries.
He would still be considered a working poor stiff, even if he invested $1200 a year in a good RRSP, if they let him invest $100 a month.
It appears to me that a person would have to give up drinking, and switch to medical marijuana mixed with tobacco to make his own cigarettes to save money in that arena.
I am unsure if this can be done for less than $100 a month.
As well, I do not know how many low income rentals could be found in America for $126 or less a month.
OTOH, for $150 a month it is possible to invest strongly in medical marijuana and become a cannabis activist. Hopefully, the rest of your money could be used wisely for a cannabis-friendly lawyer who'd work pro bono, just to insulate you from DEA oppression. ;)
In Canada, with BC having a minimum wage of $8.50/hr and a youth wage of $6/hr, it may be easier to meet one's financial goal whilst seemingly appearing hardly working!
Showing posts with label social worker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social worker. Show all posts
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The Good and the Bad: Temp Agency Clerks and Social Workers
A few civil servants (temp agency clerks) are like the little stones which make you stumble when you walk bare-foot on the beach of hard knocks.
If you resist them, then they will assimilate you i.e. reduce your funding by misrepresenting your case to a case worker.
Today, most case workers are assigned a client by "alphabetic lottery", where the client's last name is matched up to the last name of a social worker.
However, this association of worker with client changes weekly in catchment areas where client to work ratios are high and monthly where they are low.
This is because workers tend to lose their objectivity when they listen to the client's life story, whether it is told by the client or by other workers who know of hir. As well, temporary stress leave is regularly assigned to busy social workers. This job is not for workaholics because it will burn you out.
However, new clients should never divulge their life story to a worker. If a worker cannot get a background report on a client from other workers or from the archives at the Victoria office, then it is better that way.
Woe to the worker who sympathizes!
If you resist them, then they will assimilate you i.e. reduce your funding by misrepresenting your case to a case worker.
Today, most case workers are assigned a client by "alphabetic lottery", where the client's last name is matched up to the last name of a social worker.
However, this association of worker with client changes weekly in catchment areas where client to work ratios are high and monthly where they are low.
This is because workers tend to lose their objectivity when they listen to the client's life story, whether it is told by the client or by other workers who know of hir. As well, temporary stress leave is regularly assigned to busy social workers. This job is not for workaholics because it will burn you out.
However, new clients should never divulge their life story to a worker. If a worker cannot get a background report on a client from other workers or from the archives at the Victoria office, then it is better that way.
Woe to the worker who sympathizes!
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