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I just checked out an advertisement - for an "insurance typist"

Posted: Jun 01, 2013

It was a full time position as an IC, hourly wage. Wages advertised were $10 - $11 per hour. Education qualifications: MASTERS DEGREE!!! yeah, like anybody with a Master's Degree is going to type insurance forms for $10 an hour....give me a break!!! ugh.

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For insurance transcription, but that's hardly brain surgery. Can't figure out the master's degree, unless it had to do with actually being a part of the underwriting team or actuary team or something.

nope...just transcription - no wonder jobs are scarce

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I had been thinking about applying for the job until I saw the educational requirements. I think it is ridiculous. They want so much education, and so much experience, but they surely do not want to compensate for that. Can't have it both ways!

Masters degree - Anon

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Unfortunately, there are people with Master's Degrees who cannot find work in their field. Some people take jobs like this, it helps pay the bills and supplements their UE. I have never heard of anyone wanting a Master's for a typist job, but maybe they expect you to do other things, maybe it's an error in the advertisement.

I once saw an ad for an elem.school JANITOR that - required applicants to have a BACHELOR degree!

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Needless to say, I didn't apply........

Bachelors - MT

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I work for a facility that advertises for a Bachelor's degree, but only pays $6 per report...and the dictations can sometimes be 15+ minutes long. I refuse to type any reports that are longer than about 8 minutes.

I knew someone who stocked grocery store shelves - for Nabisco

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And they wouldn't hire anyone without a bachelor's degree. This job consisted of carrying boxes of cookies and crackers from the back room in a grocery store, opening the box, and putting the packages of cookies and crackers on the grocery store shelves. That was it. It paid $10-$11/hour (and this was a year or two ago) with NO benefits.

Maybe they reckoned no one without a bachelor's degree should be entrusted with a box cutter.

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