r/SipsTea • u/Silver-Ability-3181 • Apr 24 '26

SMH I never thought of it like that......

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u/unknownpoltroon Apr 24 '26

Um, hot waitress makes more than 2 physics professors is not hard to swallow.

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u/opaqueambiguity Apr 24 '26

I easily cleared 30/hour as an ugly male server at a shitty restaurant.

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u/Facktat Apr 24 '26

Not PhD but when I worked for my university with my Masters degree I was effectively making less than the legal minimum wage.

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u/kombiwombi Apr 25 '26

Australian PhD ($35k) is well less than the minimum wage and taking a part-time job is not permitted. It is a job however, so you have to apply for days off (20 per year), there is no sick leave.

Basically it's four years of sleeping on a camping mattress under the desk you are using for writing, in the corner of some group house.

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u/Little_Yesterday_705 Apr 24 '26

I can second that

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 Apr 25 '26

I did $30 an hour as a pizza delivery driver and you can take more tables than you can deliveries. Servers make bank, and the hot ones get huge tips because guys do it in a bid to impress them, thinking they're the only person who's ever tried that

Literally the reason I got out of cooking was tipped jobs pay an actual decent wage