Anyone can wait a table or stock shelves or do meager slave work. Those jobs are for high school students or part-time jobs for first and second year college students.droid wrote:The thing is, you're still operating entirely on theory alone, on every aspect Tsar. Some day you will have to step into actual practice under less than ideal conditions. And you know I'm not talking only business here.
You may be entitled to a job that suits your liking and provides x amount. But the reality says otherwise, unfair or not.
Especially in your field, I really doubt someone will let you loose with some "investments" right off the bat. Most likely you will have to start by doing some basic accounting in front of the computer all day, building some rapport before companies trust you. Or perhaps working your way up into the management of a restaurant or something like that.
I'm not a business expert myself, but I'd dare to say that business resembles engineering more and more nowadays.
You're right in that with less than $30K you only tread water these days, but you have to consider that as an investment, while you learn something and build up experience. It doesn't have to be forever though.
I think it's worse to sit idle while buying groceries on the credit card, etc and learning nothing practical (I don't know if that's your situation, just making en example).
Waiting on people, working for minimum wage, $10/hour, or less than minimum wage (restaurant jobs) is not something I would ever do because I already receive $10,000/year for doing nothing. I'm not going to be like the groveling slaves of society working for nothing and accepting poor paying jobs that don't give me anything or get me anywhere. A 40 hour/week minimum wage job with maybe 6 hours commuting, taxes, and whatever else would only be $13,000 after-tax. They did away with pensions to cut costs and give more to CEOs. Many jobs in America have poor benefits plans and don't even give vacations. I would just say screw it and take 4 weeks off per year without pay because I wouldn't tolerate that. If I got fired, then whatever. I'm not going to be an underpaid, stressed out corporate lackey working for nothing. I am better than that. People younger than me or less intelligent that were constantly partying or being wild are getting jobs. I will not grovel or accept a meager job with poor pay.
I said before that it's better to be poor than working poor. The poor in America actually get more than the working poor.
While poverty is often associated with joblessness, a significant proportion of the poor are actually employed. Largely because they are earning such low wages, the working poor face numerous obstacles that make it difficult for many of them to find and keep a job, save up money, and maintain a sense of self-worth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_poor
