Quote:When did it become a thing that every single job should pay enough to support a family of three or four comfortably? It used to be that getting a job at a fast food resturant was a way for teens to earn some spending money or save up for a used car...not any more.

Most Teens around here think working fast food is beneath them...Most of the teens (here)say they won't work for less than $10 an hour so they don't work...The few that do, seem to be the ones who do well in school, and hardly get in trouble...Somehow todays kids have the belief that they are better than everyone else and less than $10 per hour is degrading to them...We have very small towns here, not even big enough to be called cities, but townships that are very old...The vast majority of jobs here are retail, and we all know retail is all part time at or slightly above minimum wage and the teens think they should be able to jump into the skilled jobs during the summers and right out of high school...There are only about 6 or 7 employers in the immediate area that pay in double digits here and for some reason these kids think they should get these jobs above everyone else...

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