Now if you’re a kid just starting out, that’s great, but if you’ve ever worked anywhere before those jobs may as well not exist unless you’re desperate.
I'm glad to hear you're working on bettering your situation, but prevailing wages are exactly that; in a way, it is worse in California as the state legislature has planned out what wages will be in 4 years, pretty much eliminating any incentive for companies to reward hard working employees (getting rid of poor performing employees of course will continue to cost more as well.)
After being self employed for the last 4 years, I'm ready to take a paycheck, any paycheck, from an employer and am slashing all my expenses to make even a couple bucks above minimum wage something I can thrive on.
Good luck on your job search.
I have to say that “prevailing wage” ought to be tossed in the ash heap of history. It’s from a time where workers were considered identical drones to be dropped into identical jobs - essentially the union mentality.
The whole idea of work is simple and made overly complicated by a bunch of advanced degree’d idiots. Business pays money, worker gives work.
Want more money? Do more, (or more valuable) work.
Can’t find workers? Then you’re not paying enough. By definition.
Of course there are internal economic reasons that a job can only pay so much, but frankly, it’s irrelevant to the job market, just like it’s irrelevant to Office Depot how much you think supplies are overpriced. The market is what it is and, if you can’t make a deal, then you’re not bringing enough to the table.
I dunno. With President Trump coming, it might make sense for you to tough it out as a self-employed person. I don't think there's much doubt that the environment for small business is about to significantly improve under the Trump administration.
Maybe it ultimately depends on what line of work you're in, whether it's a growth sector, et cetera. I've been self-employed I.T. for a couple of decades and there are certainly ups and downs, feasts and famines. Lots of famine over the last 8 years...