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Originally Posted by Rochard
I can't remember the last time I've been to McDonald's - it's been at least two months - but everyone there is under the page of 21.
I have a friend of mine who is 30, a single mom, and makes only slightly more than minimum wage working at a gas station. I've told her over and over again she could do so much better in life if she applied herself, but she's not interested. She lives with her mom, loves her kid, and her basic needs are covered. If she's lucky she'll get married and live out her life with the bare minimums and be happy with it.
I couldn't live like that. I remember being twenty-one and working four jobs daily, including a newspaper route.
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Interestingly enough, I went through the drive-thru of my local McDonald's today. All I saw was the woman who took my money, the guy who handed me my food, and a few people working inside as I waited for the food.
The woman that took my money was clearly an adult. I don't know how old, but I would guess late 20's. The two people working inside that I saw looked like teenagers. I would assume they were high school age. The guy that handed me my food actually went to my high school and graduated a year before me. He had a shirt and tie on so I am assuming that he is now the manager.
I would guess that most McDonald's are like that where most of the workers are younger people who are high school or college age, a few are older and the managers could be just about any age.
Here is one thing that I have noticed that I find interesting. The grocery store that I shop at now has almost no young people working at it. When I first moved here I remember that most of the people who were out collecting the shopping carts in the parking lot and who were stocking shelves and doing jobs like that looked like they were high school age. Now almost all of them look to be into their 20's. I hardly see anyone working there now that is younger. I think when the recession hit eventually the younger people moved on to other jobs and older people who lost their jobs went to work at this store and are still there.
All this said, to me, there is no reason to work at McDonald's for 10 years unless you are working towards owning one or at least being a manager. If I had no real job skills and was in my mid-20's and needed a job and went to work and McDonald's I would also quickly make some choices to decide what I really wanted to do and what kind of career I wanted and I would start working towards that be it going to school to learn the skills or getting a second job learning that trade or whatever it was.