That 10% off at my coffee shop goes a long way towards affording rent.
I mean have they seen our stipends
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cosmic_cowboy@reddthat.com 11 months ago
Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Economy of scale, right? ;D
GarlicToast@programming.dev 11 months ago
If you buy a Moka pot and the cheapest grinder you can find, you can buy fresh beans in bulk. It will cost less in the long run, and the coffee will taste better.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 11 months ago
excellent advice, if you never leave your home.
PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 11 months ago
I’m fortunate in as much that my professional accreditations (and being a part time student) get me access to all sorts of discounts, but even still it’s worth asking for a student discount (or whatever they offer at the till) all the same.
Nine times out of ten, the retail staff aren’t paid enough to give two fucks, so they’ll just put it through as whatever discount appears on their till.
The worst they can say is no, after all - and that costs nothing.
SmoothIsFast@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Hehehehe doodoo
brlemworld@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I don’t get senior discounts. They are older and have had a lot longer to reap capital gains. They are most able to pay full price.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 11 months ago
In the US, they have much higher medical bills than the younger crowd. Outside of the US it doesn’t make any sense
ArcticAmphibian@lemmus.org 11 months ago
The purpose is to attract them to businesses. The elderly are least likely to spontaneously decide to go out.
SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 11 months ago
No, they’ve been planning the weekly excursion since last week’s.
Jtotheb@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They used to be the poorest age group in the United States. Senior discounts made a lot more sense when something like 30% of seniors lived in poverty in [1960? 70? Can’t recall]
Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk 11 months ago
Years ago my wife did an online course, I forget which one, it might have been open university (UK). She worked full-time with a fair salary and studied a few hours each week in the evening. She got a student discount card. The requirements seem (or did, perhaps it’s changed now) quite low.
Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 11 months ago
‘Do do’, hehehehehe (yes I’m juvenile)
Got_Bent@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Considering that you’re probably making something like $1,500/mo in some place where rent is $3,000/mo I’d say take every discount you can get.
I briefly looked into doing a doctorate. The economics of it turned me away right quick.
Liz@midwest.social 11 months ago
There’s a reason we have to import so many of our PhD candidates. It’s because it’s a raw fucking deal. Even in areas where pay is high for researchers, it’s still a borderline pointless gauntlet of humiliation to prove abilities you could have just gained on the job anyway.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Stuart Ashen has a Ph.D.
Slovene@feddit.nl 11 months ago
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abysmalpoptart@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Living in the USA, my experience looking into this was similar. However, there are some doctoral programs in europe that are free even for international students, which is actually quite tempting.
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 11 months ago
Applying won’t hurt, you never know.
geogle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I hope no school is sound that badly these days
ornery_chemist@mander.xyz 11 months ago
My take-home was $1700-2100/mo after taxes and fees depending on whether I was teaching that semester (teaching paid less). We were paid minimum wage (at the time $15/h in CA) on the basis of 8 h/day, 5 days/wk 52 wks/y lmao. Rent split 4 ways was ~$1500 per person, and that was the lowest of anyone I knew. UC Berkeley.
acetanilide@lemmy.world 11 months ago
When I was working on mine I was making $1800 and rent was only ~$720 for a 2 bed. I think that included pet rent too.
The mental toll however…(Hundreds of thousands of dollars in insurance claims later, probably more)
baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 11 months ago
Unfortunately this is still the case in all the university I know, especially in fine arts and humanity, many of the positions are even unfunded.
Many students need to rent out the living room or live in a single bedroom in a house, with shared kitchen and bathroom.
I think many students literally cannot afford a studio or 1B with their salary, because the rent is higher than their salary.
ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
I went to a state university and I was paid about $1,000 a month as a graduate student researcher, while living in a $1,700 a month dorm.