As someone currently looking for a new job, I'll say that it's not so easy to just go out there and find a job you have the skills for. It's easy to say "If you're 30 and flipping hamburgers you're doing it wrong", but the fact is that people have bills to pay, and they can't just pass up a job to wait for the next one.  Food has to be put on the table and rent has to be paid.  


Honestly 16 year olds shouldn't be working 40 hours a week in the first place.  And any money they make can be put toward college.  I wish I was able to afford finishing college.  Instead I ended up with an associates degree that's pretty much worthless because I chose to stay at my current job for as long as I have (the pay was better than what others offered, so I stayed).

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