(11-04-2020, 01:09 PM)p_rushing Wrote:

(11-04-2020, 12:47 PM)homebiscuit Wrote: It’s so unfair how the left has sold this younger generation on the minimum wage being a living wage. It was never intended for that. 

https://www.news4jax.com/vote-2020/2020/...4b9d93da42

Now N4J is profiling a woman who has 5 (Five) kids aged 1 to 14 and works fast food counters. She’s happy about the increase but the cold hard reality of it is, as commented below, she will be replaced by a kiosk. 

Better learn to code, girl, and keep your legs closed.

I don't know how someone working at a fast food place can stay a cashier for more than a year. She can't advance past an order taker? She is working at both McDonalds and BK is still a cashier? That is a temp job, not a job to live on. It is a part-time job. Like you said, stop having kids when you make minimum wage.

She could apply/try to move up through management. I worked at places like Mcdonalds/Dominoes when I was younger.
Back then a store/General manager could make anywhere from like $40,000 to $75, 000 (maybe more) depending on restaurant/location/success of it. 

And this was years ago, maybe it's more now. It might take her a while to get there but I have also seen people advance to these positions relativley quickly including young people. 

(11-04-2020, 02:11 PM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote: This makes me think about my young kids. My first job was a bus boy at a restaurant at 15, then I went on to several other jobs like that during college. I will never let my kids not work. I think it is important for kids to be put in the environment of "minimum wage" so they always have a reference back to what they should never want to do with their life.

Having said that, if these non-skilled jobs are treated as living wage jobs, what jobs are available to my children when they turn 16?

Yeah I worked these jobs during those years too. Some of the hardest people Ive seen are teens/college kids. One reason because they are balancing work and often times going to school full time.

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