Whos to say working at McDonalds is not a career? Whos to say any job cannot be made into a career? If there were not people dedicated into working these jobs who would work them?
I agree that making 8 an hour for life is pretty much non-doable but the point I’m getting at is that whos to say some of these people should not make a little more?
Where do we get this notion that everyone that works a minimum wage job is immediately a scumbag or someone lazy?
There are people who enjoy their “shit” job.
Waitresses don’t make shit, they depend on their tips to make any kind of money. There are waitresses that work someplace and probabnly make more than some of us, there are others who barely make minimum wage after you average out there night do we look at them any less?
I know waitresses who LEGITIMATELY LOVE THEIR JOB, they enjoy what they do.
I just find it amazing how we get stuck in this mindset that some jobs just are not worth it, that making minimum wage puts you in some class that makes people think less of you while there are people who we once considered “good hard working people who make lots of money” that are now collection wellfare because anything less than what they had somehow makes them less of a person.
Jobs are hard to get, the jobs that many people find themselves getting are those that none of us would ever want to do, flipping burgers, waiting tables, washing toilets etc… yet there are people that do these things because they need to, they need SOME SORT OF INCOME, if these people have a family… if they work hard and can;t seem to find a better job than what they have why should they not be able to collect welfare? Thats what welfare is there for… helping familys in need that REALLY NEED IT… I’m okay with welfare in this aspect… bestter yet if they work these jobs for an extended period of time, if they work hard do they not deserver to make a little more? To get some appreciation shown that they are a good loyal hardworoking employee? I would be more people would have and KEEP jobs of buisnesses showed just a little incentive towards their employees
However joe schmoe making bank under the table or someone just refusing to work at mcdonalds IMO deserves to get cut off for being a lazy fuck.