Ray From Cleveland
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I live in the KC metro and even the gas stations start out pay at between 10 & 11.
ANYONE working for minimum wage is an idiot and has no one to blame but themselves.
A quick search notes that an average 1 bedroom apt rents for $742 a month. So considering taxes working for $10 an hour, two weeks pay won't even cover rent.
Which illustrates the real problem. Younger people today feel no need to work over 40 hours a week.
Lol....because gas stations regularly offer overtime.
Then work a different job on the weekends. When I was younger, if I didn't work six days a week, I always had another job.
No you didn't.
Oh yes I did, and back then, it was not uncommon for other people as well. At one point, I was working three jobs seven days a week.
Of course back then, we didn't blow money on recreational products like we do today. We had one house phone, one family car, McDonald's was not a weekly part of your diet, it was a huge treat. We had a color television and an 8-track player and stereo. You got three channels on your television, and all summer they only played reruns.
My father laughs today when he tells us he's paying more for his monthly cell phone bill than he did the mortgage on the house we grew up in. And yes, during the construction season, my father worked night and day, and usually Saturday and Sunday.