| Marks said:
The thing is minimum wage jobs like flipping burgers or scanning items at Wal-mart are nothing more than rock bottom jobs you get as your first job so you can get experience then move on to something better...they aren't supposed to be the job you work at for 40 years then retire. They're for students, dropouts, or old people looking for easy part time work to supplement their pension. |
Well, there's two things I'd like to adress here, the first being that the experience gained from these jobs doesn't qualify anybody for other, better jobs. Unless you're hoping to move up in that particlar company, working the cash register won't get you far. Experience is not a factor, qualifications such as degrees are far more important in the job market.
Second, I absolutely hate the argument that minimum wage jobs are "for" a particular segment of society. They are "for" whoever gets them. Nobody creates a job and says "this job is designed for students!" That job is designed for nobody in particular, and the best applicant who comes along will get the job. If that best applicant happens to be a 40-year old parent who was laid off from their corporate job that got shipped overseas, that's who gets it. If you want to say "a job is for students/retirees" you have to put legal restrictions on that work...which would contradict many laws and court ruling stating you can't do that.
