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Originally Posted by MGlitch
Easier said than done if your employer doesn't pay you enough to actually live. And doesn't schedule you consistently.
You are either woefully ignorant, or uninformed of current business practices. Businesses intentionally schedule min. wage employees below the hours they'd need to be full time and thus avoid having to provide benefits. Also  at the increases, minimum wage hasn't even kept up with inflation but you expect annual raises to somehow rectify that.
Yes how dare people want jobs with equivalent salaries from 40 years ago. The unmitigated gall to want to not be crushed by student loan debt
The workforce is looking forward to this too, so there's room to advance for those working under you. |
Excuse me, but 40 years ago, I certainly wasn't making $50,000. a year! My brother graduated with a bachelors from Harvard and came out to a job that paid about $23,000.00 a year, which was considerably more than what I was making a year, but it certainly wasn't anywhere close to $50,000.00 a year.
When he started working he quickly had to rearrange what he had planned for himself. He had himself moving into his own place living the life etc. Then reality struck with his first paycheck.
You are only thinking in terms of retail, fast food, and service jobs. Those jobs have never paid well, and if you don't have bigger ambitions than working those kinds of jobs that's on you.
Most people have champaign dreams and beer pockets. They have no clue how to live within their means.
People want to start at the top rather than working their way up. It takes an investment of time, dedication, actual work and lots of common sense.
Life wasn't any easier 40 years ago, but people seemed to have more realistic goals.