| NoddyHolder said:
been working for about 2 months there 3 days a week, weekend job at the same shop for about a year before that. |
Not sure this shop applies, but humor me...
Now let's say you want to better yourself at that store, so you work harder, or take the less desirable shifts so the boss notices you. In a few years, you make assistant manager. The job pays for shit and is a ton of responsibility, but you take it because you know it's the only way to be manager some day. You work every night, and close up. Then the manager moves on, and because you were the best assistant manager, you get the manager job. Now your doing the book, hiring people, firing people, making shift schedules, making sure the supplies are always on time.
You work incredibly hard because you want that regional manager job. After 10 years of busting your hump more then the next guy, you are now regional manager, making 120k a year.
But you only get to keep some of that. 4 months out of your life, you get to work so you can give all your efforts to someone who doesn't work. All those people who you worked harder then, get to not pay taxes, Instead, you pay it for them, and the guy who has been working the same job at the counter for the last 10 years, gets part of his monthly spending money off government assistance that you have to pay for.
I think the reason you feel the way you do, is because while you have friends on assistance, you don't pay for it. As you get older, you will realize that to get ahead, takes work. Once you have done that work, you will feel different about people taking it from you to give to those people who just chose to go home and watch TV, and not not close every night.
