Originally Posted By: stro_cruiser
Originally Posted By: Mr Nice
The retail and food industry is generally low paying for hourly Non management positions. At some point you have to make a career decision not to be stuck in a low paying job.
When I was 15 years old I was working in a supermarket at 6:30 AM on the weekends, I'm white and laugh at when people say 'white privileged folks' having an easy road in life. My sister worked at Burger King in high school, now is a lawyer.... She is also white and unprivileged.
I hear you, growing up in England, I too worked from the age of 13, maybe 14, collecting eggs in battery chicken houses, did school, technical college, an apprenticeship in toolmaking, made it up into the engineers office where I was plugged and plugged for more and more work until I couldnt take anymore. I quit 11/11/01 of all days. Now I work in a wearhouse doing mostly unskilled labor where im lucky that my boss sees my value and pays me more than he would have to if he paid someone else.
Im white and I see the fact that I am privileged here in the US compared to those that are not. Its the simple fact of racial inequality/divide, like it or not. In this country, to be male & white has you at the top of the tree. There are capital C citizens and lwr case c citizens. That rabbit hole goes much deeper but [censored] there to be read.
Don't let the screen door hit you....
Originally Posted By: Mr Nice
The retail and food industry is generally low paying for hourly Non management positions. At some point you have to make a career decision not to be stuck in a low paying job.
When I was 15 years old I was working in a supermarket at 6:30 AM on the weekends, I'm white and laugh at when people say 'white privileged folks' having an easy road in life. My sister worked at Burger King in high school, now is a lawyer.... She is also white and unprivileged.
I hear you, growing up in England, I too worked from the age of 13, maybe 14, collecting eggs in battery chicken houses, did school, technical college, an apprenticeship in toolmaking, made it up into the engineers office where I was plugged and plugged for more and more work until I couldnt take anymore. I quit 11/11/01 of all days. Now I work in a wearhouse doing mostly unskilled labor where im lucky that my boss sees my value and pays me more than he would have to if he paid someone else.
Im white and I see the fact that I am privileged here in the US compared to those that are not. Its the simple fact of racial inequality/divide, like it or not. In this country, to be male & white has you at the top of the tree. There are capital C citizens and lwr case c citizens. That rabbit hole goes much deeper but [censored] there to be read.
Don't let the screen door hit you....