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<blockquote data-quote="whatbogsends" data-source="post: 64887652" data-attributes="member: 11978"><p>What minimum wage job did you have? The study specifically referenced fast food type jobs. I also worked minimum wage - grocery store when i was 15 or so, as well as several other low paying jobs (retail, line worker in a manufacturing plant ($6.00/hour, but time and a half for overtime (which i worked fairly regularly)). Even if it was fast food, as the article said, you would be an outlier. </p><p></p><p>As Sistrin mentioned in this thread, oftentimes working a job that is "beneath you", because it's the only one you can find at the time, is looked at negatively by future employers. They sometimes view no experience as better than experience working at a fast food place.</p><p></p><p>I'm now (coupled with my wife's income) somewhere in the top 5-10% of household income, but it's due to our college degrees (and her advanced degrees) rather than work experience from those low paying jobs.</p><p></p><p>What i learned most from my low paying jobs (especially the factory work) was that often times, those working those jobs work harder than many working higher paying jobs, and that wages are not strongly correlated with effort or productivity.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="whatbogsends, post: 64887652, member: 11978"] What minimum wage job did you have? The study specifically referenced fast food type jobs. I also worked minimum wage - grocery store when i was 15 or so, as well as several other low paying jobs (retail, line worker in a manufacturing plant ($6.00/hour, but time and a half for overtime (which i worked fairly regularly)). Even if it was fast food, as the article said, you would be an outlier. As Sistrin mentioned in this thread, oftentimes working a job that is "beneath you", because it's the only one you can find at the time, is looked at negatively by future employers. They sometimes view no experience as better than experience working at a fast food place. I'm now (coupled with my wife's income) somewhere in the top 5-10% of household income, but it's due to our college degrees (and her advanced degrees) rather than work experience from those low paying jobs. What i learned most from my low paying jobs (especially the factory work) was that often times, those working those jobs work harder than many working higher paying jobs, and that wages are not strongly correlated with effort or productivity. [/QUOTE]
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