I'm a fat, lazy, sexist pig making minimum wage. Whose with me?

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I’m only recently fat and not particularly lazy, but I had a long string of minimum wage jobs and nothing like a “career” for the longest damn time. Thought it was my lot in life. Finally got an MSW and obtained my first professional job at approx 3 times anything I’d ever earned before, plus…JOB SECURITY! Unfortunately the entire agency got fired by the funding sources and I was afraid it was back to minimum wage jobs since no one in social work wanted to hire anyone from where I’d been working. And I did have to take one after awhile [ugh!] when the unemployment insurance ran out.

Then I got a job in computer programming, in which I was never trained. So now I’m making nearly double what I was making as a social worker. But I feel for you. I can’t point to any REAL reason why I’m safely out of the minimum wage ghetto, and if I lose my job I’ll be worrying that that fate awaits me yet again.

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{{{I’m 19 years old. I live w/ my parents. I work in a grocery store for $5.15/h. I HATE MY LIFE!!!
Anyone else in the same boat?}}}—Jacknife2000

I’ll hazard a guess that you aren’t going to college. Don’t waste your time hating your life now–it’s only going to get worse–you’ll have plenty of time and reason to hate your life later…unless you get off your butt and do something about it now.

That’s a hint, just like a Louisville Slugger is a toothpick.

–Kalél
Common ¢ for all ages…
“Well, there was that thing with the Cheese-Wiz…but I’m feeling much better now!” – John Astin, Night Court

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In my area, Monterey County, they say that a person has to make three times min wage to survive! Whoa, kinda true, but there are ways around it.