[Ian John Locke IV and The Prometheus Press on Behalf of the DoE]
Day 418, 15:30
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by Ian John Locke IV
DoE
So I am unsure how many know but PrincessMedyPi has brought back the Department of Education (DoE) and has appointed Tiacha superintendent. (Great work Medy and great choice for superintendent!)
Medy appointed me to this Department and I have both proudly and humbly accepted the appointment. A mission of the DoE is to educate both young and old players about issues that can sometimes be confusing...
What spurred this article
Today I was having a very interesting discussion with Donovanator (see here for conversation... towards the bottom) about young players working for Q1 companies only.
I do not completely agree with Donovanator as an owner of a Q2 company and seeing some of my best workers turn out to be young players, but that special interest aside, this is meant to be in the interest of all, not just myself (damn).
Where to work, When, and How to tell
Well I'm not going to lie, the Human Resources page can be very very easy to get caught up in. You see all these great salaries and you go for the best one you can find that fits your skill level. This is not the best way to find a good job that will not only benefit your savings, but your wellness as well.
There are many resources out there that are just not well known. For one, a good friend of mine, Zagarius updates this spreadsheet (http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pAPUIsntdJLRFLmG7QcpHAg) DAILY. This is a good way to decide where you may or may not want to work.
But if you didn't have this spreadsheet on hand, here are some simple instructions:
-{First}
After you've gone to the HR page and selected your area and skill level (let's say for the sake of this demonstration, you selected land 4-4.99) scope out the best salaries.
Thankfully, eRepublik does this automatically, sorting offers based upon the highest to lowest salaries.
-{Second}
Once you've found somewhere you decide you'd like to work, middle click (that is, if you're using a mouse, click with the scroll wheel) or right click and open in a new tab, the Company page by clicking on that company's name.
So to go along with my example of looking in land with skill level 4-4.99, the first place you see is Streamwood. They're salary for someone working in land with a skill level between 4 and 4.99 is 25.50 USD. That's a great salary. BUT, it's a Q3 company. I can tell this buy clicking on the company page and looking at where it says Products.
It says Wood and has 3 stars under it. The # of stars designate the quality of the product.
That means every day you work you'll loose 3 wellness. You'd have to buy Q4 food to counteract the harm to you wellness while gaining 1 wellness/day.
-{Third}
Decide whether that job is really worth it or not. Factor in price of food/day as well as the income tax you are charged.
In my example, if you bout Q4 food, that'd be 14.67 USD/day of food. On a 25.5 wage, the income tax for wood is 10% so (25.5 - 2.55)= 22.95 USD
(22.95 - 14.67) = 8.28 USD (assuming no other costs). If you go for a hard worker medal, at the end of those 30 days you would have: (30 * 8.2
-{Fourth}
If it is not worth it, work your way on down the list and analyze each offer. Doing the calculations I did above.
But I am a brand new player looking for a good job, what do I do?
Well in that case NO MATTER WHAT, work for a Q1 until you can get your wellness up and get some money saved.
Q1 Food right now is around 1.50
Q2 Food right now is around 4.25
If you can get more than 4/day I would STRONGLY advise buying Q2 food and working in a Q1 company.
If you have any questions PM me, or Tiacha or any other member of the DoE that you can find. You can leave comments here as well, but I'm less likely to find them.
Also, for new players, you can subscribe to this newspaper in the upper right hand corner underneath the Info menu.
Thanks for reading,
I hope this wasn't too mind numbing.
Sincerely,
Ian John Locke IV (IJLIV for short)
NJ Congressman Dec 08 - present
Member of the DoE
AAP Co-PP
So I am unsure how many know but PrincessMedyPi has brought back the Department of Education (DoE) and has appointed Tiacha superintendent. (Great work Medy and great choice for superintendent!)
Medy appointed me to this Department and I have both proudly and humbly accepted the appointment. A mission of the DoE is to educate both young and old players about issues that can sometimes be confusing...
What spurred this article
Today I was having a very interesting discussion with Donovanator (see here for conversation... towards the bottom) about young players working for Q1 companies only.
I do not completely agree with Donovanator as an owner of a Q2 company and seeing some of my best workers turn out to be young players, but that special interest aside, this is meant to be in the interest of all, not just myself (damn).
Where to work, When, and How to tell
Well I'm not going to lie, the Human Resources page can be very very easy to get caught up in. You see all these great salaries and you go for the best one you can find that fits your skill level. This is not the best way to find a good job that will not only benefit your savings, but your wellness as well.
There are many resources out there that are just not well known. For one, a good friend of mine, Zagarius updates this spreadsheet (http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pAPUIsntdJLRFLmG7QcpHAg) DAILY. This is a good way to decide where you may or may not want to work.
But if you didn't have this spreadsheet on hand, here are some simple instructions:
-{First}
After you've gone to the HR page and selected your area and skill level (let's say for the sake of this demonstration, you selected land 4-4.99) scope out the best salaries.
Thankfully, eRepublik does this automatically, sorting offers based upon the highest to lowest salaries.
-{Second}
Once you've found somewhere you decide you'd like to work, middle click (that is, if you're using a mouse, click with the scroll wheel) or right click and open in a new tab, the Company page by clicking on that company's name.
So to go along with my example of looking in land with skill level 4-4.99, the first place you see is Streamwood. They're salary for someone working in land with a skill level between 4 and 4.99 is 25.50 USD. That's a great salary. BUT, it's a Q3 company. I can tell this buy clicking on the company page and looking at where it says Products.
It says Wood and has 3 stars under it. The # of stars designate the quality of the product.
That means every day you work you'll loose 3 wellness. You'd have to buy Q4 food to counteract the harm to you wellness while gaining 1 wellness/day.
-{Third}
Decide whether that job is really worth it or not. Factor in price of food/day as well as the income tax you are charged.
In my example, if you bout Q4 food, that'd be 14.67 USD/day of food. On a 25.5 wage, the income tax for wood is 10% so (25.5 - 2.55)= 22.95 USD
(22.95 - 14.67) = 8.28 USD (assuming no other costs). If you go for a hard worker medal, at the end of those 30 days you would have: (30 * 8.2
😎= 248.4 USD and 5 gold (from the medal) + 30 wellness (assuming you kept buying Q4 food) [1]
-{Fourth}
If it is not worth it, work your way on down the list and analyze each offer. Doing the calculations I did above.
But I am a brand new player looking for a good job, what do I do?
Well in that case NO MATTER WHAT, work for a Q1 until you can get your wellness up and get some money saved.
Q1 Food right now is around 1.50
Q2 Food right now is around 4.25
If you can get more than 4/day I would STRONGLY advise buying Q2 food and working in a Q1 company.
If you have any questions PM me, or Tiacha or any other member of the DoE that you can find. You can leave comments here as well, but I'm less likely to find them.
Also, for new players, you can subscribe to this newspaper in the upper right hand corner underneath the Info menu.
Thanks for reading,
I hope this wasn't too mind numbing.
Sincerely,
Ian John Locke IV (IJLIV for short)
NJ Congressman Dec 08 - present
Member of the DoE
AAP Co-PP
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Very nice article, Ian. It can be hard for new players to see which job is the best because all they see is the salary. Factoring in that all important company quality factor is key. I know, I don't like working for higher than a Q3 company if I can help it for that very reason. Props.
lol so you do agree with me?
I mean for really young players, YES
For players like you and me, hell no.
lol yeah that's what i mean = )
Voted and subscribed...I'm going to have to make sure I'm subscribed to all DoE related publications. I love reading all of your work 😃
Thanks Medy!
I'm adding a shameless plug to the eRepublik Better Business Bureau. http://www.erepublik.com/en/newspaper/ebbb-report-180803/1
eBBB is currently a work in progress, with a questionnaire available here: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=p2fV4Zv5Tr_MIhidh7urkQQ&hl=en
Our goal is to compile enough reviews for a weekly report on "good" and "bad" companies to work for. Eventually we're planning to build a website around this data for ease of searching with all kinds of criteria. Should be useful not only to new players, but to every potential job seeker.
The problem is that no one works for the Q4-5 companys so we do not have many so we can not buy many Q4-5 products.
Well marpool, the deal is that we need older more experienced workers to work for them.
And I agree we that we don't see Q4-5 goods on the market often. But that's because Q3 is usually the highest most people will buy anyway and if you look at Benn's article (I think it was Benn's) you'll see that buying Q1 food and gifting yourself (through an org) is the cheapest deal per Diem. As opposed to ~25USD for Q5, if you buy Q1 and 4Q1 gifts, it's ~10 USD.