Originally Posted by Rochard

But this is the American dream at work right here.

When I got out of the Marines I was making $4/hour flipping burgers. I rented an apartment with two room mates and had a used car and still couldn't make ends meet. At one point I was working four jobs - I started work at 5am for a newspaper route, from 7am till 4pm at a restaurant, 5pm till 9pm at a fast food restaurant, and then working nights at Target on a push crew. This is what I had to do to make ends meet then.

If you want to work an entry level job at Wal Mart for the next twenty years, then it will suck to be you. But most of us want to do better in life and live the American Dream where they work harder and are well rewarded. They look for jobs elsewhere and new opportunities, their income rises, and eventually they make enough money to make ends meet and have some extra left over.

Fuck, I cleaned bathrooms for minimum wage at one company. It's crappy jobs that make you strive to do better in life.