buckeye45_73
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- Jun 4, 2011
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If you choose to be satisfied with a minimum wage job, you can certainly survive. Move back in with your family, move in with friends, share an apartment with others. No, your lifestyle may not be what you would like it to be, and hopefully that will motivate you to do a good job at work and advance, and/or take classes and/or get training on a better paying position.
There are plenty of people who do that, and no one is holding a gun to their head to do it. It's their choice because they want a better lifestyle.
Some want to paint minimum wage earners as permanent "victims" when they are not. They are people who are where they are right now, but who can make a decision to do what it takes to create a better existence for themselves. Unless they suffer from a physical and/or mental condition, it's up to them.
Regardless of what they are told by those who "care" so much about them.
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Ummm... most people who are in minimum wage jobs lack the resources to further themselves. They have a family to provide for, bills to pay, kids that they need to spend time with. All that while juggling one and more often two and sometimes three jobs to make ends meet.
It's not due to a lack of effort.
Plus, you guys act like there's countless jobs that can completely replace all the low wage jobs. Everybody can get a better paying job, they just don't try hard enough! There's over a hundred million and more of them!
Min wage jobs are low skilled jobs for teenagers or people to pick up part time work. They're not to provide for a family. They help you get work experience to get a "real" job. I'm sorry but Busboys, retail clerks, ect dont need to make that much, because they're not high skilled. and I did both as a teenager, then I got a factory job and actually made a bit of money and I learned computers and am now in networking, making good money, but I'll be dammed if entry level jobs need to be paid "living" wages, they're not for that reason.