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I'm a graphic designer, website manager, and inventory specialist for a local country club in my city. I have 6 years of experience in graphic design, and 2 years of experience in website design. I'm also currently in college majoring in graphic design. I'm loaded with quite a few projects per week, working around 45 hours a week. Is it just me or does minimum wage seem unfair in this situation??

Minimum wage where I live (Georgia) is $7.25/hour.

I'm currently trying to get my pay raised, but I don't want to quit or get fired because where I live, there's not many open graphic design jobs. If there are, they require a BA Degree and that, I do not yet have.

What do you guys think?
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How long have you worked that job? How well is it supporting you?
With that amount of experience, and how much you work, that seems like absolute BS to me.

Asking for a raise can't hurt, at least from my experience. Ask for another dollar, if they say no ask if they're willing to give you at least a little bit more?
But if you've been working there for 1 year + you deserve at least $1 above minimum wage.
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Maze wrote How long have you worked that job? How well is it supporting you?
With that amount of experience, and how much you work, that seems like absolute BS to me.

Asking for a raise can't hurt, at least from my experience. Ask for another dollar, if they say no ask if they're willing to give you at least a little bit more?
But if you've been working there for 1 year + you deserve at least $1 above minimum wage.


Yeah I'd ask as well. With my work, I got a raise often when I first started and pretty much hitting my cap now haha
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I've only just started working there last month. But even so, minimum wage seems unfair to me. The club I work for uses PayCom, so you can see your payroll and changes to your payroll. Before I even started working, I saw that there was a change in my payroll from $8/hr to $7.25/hr. I am trying to get a raise to $9/hr, and I think that I can make that happen. There's a waitress there that makes 10.50/hr + tips, a year younger than me and just started working 2 weeks ago. I think that's totally unfair.
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GingeArts wrote I've only just started working there last month. But even so, minimum wage seems unfair to me. The club I work for uses PayCom, so you can see your payroll and changes to your payroll. Before I even started working, I saw that there was a change in my payroll from $8/hr to $7.25/hr. I am trying to get a raise to $9/hr, and I think that I can make that happen. There's a waitress there that makes 10.50/hr + tips, a year younger than me and just started working 2 weeks ago. I think that's totally unfair.


Sounds to me like she has a good wine wrack. I'd ask for a raise dude ;)
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She does have a nice rack ;) too young to serve the alcohol though haha
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My recommendation? Learn advertising to add more value to yourself. Walk into local businesses and speak about your value and why they should pay you monthly. You can run websites, create graphics, manage inventory... Add advertising specialist to that and you have a self-sustained social media marketing agency. Sounds weird, but this is one form of income I currently do. I have a few programs, some from Tai Lopez, they're $1,000 but I can definitely get you them for free if you'd like. I have three local businesses paying me $1,000/m and one paying $3,000/m. Then when you have advertising down you can get into drop shipping. Drop shipping is a different story, but with advertising, you would have all the tools necessary to making 20k+/m.

Sorry for the rant, I just love discussing all things business.
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Time to find a new job lol
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well in all fairness this is something you shouldve brought up when you were hired. You dont have anyone to blame but yourself really.
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