Steady Jobs, With Pay and Hours That Are Anything But
This is so true.. I have a full time job plus am an adjunct at the university. My wife is an adjunct too .. but getting a course at the university is not a given .. Full time professors get first dibs at classes ( especially in summer) .. So our incomes fluctuate based who gets a class to teach. And did I tell you adjuncts get paid crap.
Despite having a Phd and 3 Masters degree between me and my wife - we are constantly struggling to keep our noses about water.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/31/business/economy/volatile-income-economy-jobs.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
Excerpt :
Mirella Casares has what used to be considered the keystone of economic security: a job. But even a reliable paycheck no longer delivers a reliable income.
Like Ms. Casares, who works at a Victoria’s Secret store in Ocala, Fla., more and more employees across a growing range of industries find the number of hours they work is swinging giddily from week to week — bringing chaos not only to family scheduling, but also to family finances.
And a new wave of research shows that the main culprit is not the so-called gig economy, but shifting pay within the same job.
Sad.
