Jessica Roy: Dear San Francisco Employers: Please Hire Me

Can you actually live in the area on $12/hour?<p>Also, someone should teach her about salary negotiation. Stupid to box yourself in like that. She'll probably end up working for $10/hour.

She could get a writing job at a place like RWW easily. Unfortunately it's one of the only places she could get a job. It's also a boiler room. I don't know what the right phrase for a blogging boiler room is.<p>I hope she truly loves SF because career wise there are more and better opportunities for people like her in NYC.

&#62;&#62; continuously trolling the depressing opportunities on Monster/NYU Careernet/Craigslist.<p>Is this system broken? Is there an opportunity for improvement in the way people find jobs, or is the best way to find good work going to increasingly be by performing memorable stunts to get eyeballs from prospective employers? I'm curious, especially in light of the relative lack of successful startups in the area.

How does one raise their "Google Index"?<p><i>I can help raise your Google Index through SEO.</i>

If I was a startup in the Valley, I'd hire her as copywriter.

Not particularly related to this but I am amazed how people here and on the blog are surprised that she is willing to work for $12/hr while at the same time web app startups are afraid to charge even $10/month from their users. What an irony!<p>PS: I know scale v/s no-scale argument, but still one should charge for your web app (no matter how trivial is it)?

I'm a little disturbed that this is how the most talented people in my generation behave. It seems like most people her age are simply lazy, but a small minority are talented, hardworking, and <i>desperate to undersell themselves</i>.<p>If you've gone to a good school, gotten a good GPA, and been published, don't you dare compete on price! Figure out what the average entry-level college grad would make in a given position, and ask for 25% more. Tell them why it's a good deal.<p>If she says $12, she sounds like damaged goods. If she says "I'm a better deal at $60K than the last applicant was at $40K," she has another sentence or two to make her case--<i>which she can do</i>.

There should be a site that highlights truly fucking awesome people looking for jobs and has an actual insight into them (plus what they've built). I'd hire those people.

Well i'd hire her if I was in SF :-)<p>This is how you get a job.

Perfect: Presents some degree of intelligence mixed in with an emotional appeal.

How do you pay off NYU on $12/hour?

"I was reared during the internet age, most consciously during the dot com bust. I am also only 22, meaning that I am the definition of cheap labor. No, seriously, I think that getting paid anything more than $12/hour is “living large,” and getting paid $12/hour is “extremely manageable.”"<p>I'm also 22, Currently making 70k... i would find $12/hour anything but living large.

Hey Shane,<p>Why use profanity? Your friend is putting herself out there looking for a job and you lessen her efforts by using profanity in your comments. Way to be a friend.