I feel that if you have good experiences in life, you're much more wealthy than anyone else. If you're happy naturally, with good friends and a good family, strong hobbies and food on the table, it doesn't matter how much money you have in the bank.
For example, I traveled across the world. I've been to over 40 countries in my 18 years, and just yesterday I signed a SEAL Contract with the US Navy. Being a SEAL means that I'll go through more in 3 years than more than 99% of the population will ever be able to dream of achieving.
People may have more money than me, they may have fancy toys and nice cars, private planes and lavish life styles. That's fine. I still think I've got a better life, because I'm more physically fit (and by extension oftentimes more attractive, which helps me feel better whenever some short ugly dude pulls up in a hummer. It sounds vain, but for some reason it's true. I don't really get it either.) I've got a group of friends straight out of Lost Boys: The Tribe, if you've seen the movie, you've seen me and my friends.
I've got the best girlfriend anyone could ever ask for, she's beautiful and such a sweetheart. My family is awesome, family parties are a bunch of old people getting drunk and laughing the entire night.
I've got a decent job right now, but pretty soon I'll be leaving for SEAL training. The pay isn't great, but what comes with the job is.
The higher class can have all the money and material things that they want. I've got my middle class life with all the best of the things money can't buy, so they can be jealous.
Oh man!! You're right, you definitely will be more attractive physically... Until you get old like everyone else... But you are right, it does depend on if you are happy to have stuff or happy to have nothing. Either way... I can't spend experiences... Life isn't an RPG XD.
I feel mininium wage should at least be enough for a single person to live on, preferably without government assistance. Probably around $11 an hour depending on where you live. Going 40 hours a week you'll be able to squeak by. With the government paying food stamps, and subsidizing housing you can get by probably on $9 though.
The problem is cost of living is way beyond what mininium wage is in some area's. I believe the current system has a federal min-wage, and then states can set above that. In Texas, 9 is good enough, but in places like California, or NYC it will have to be higher.
By no means is $9 an hour earning enough to live happily, it's enough to live though.
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It does help to put things into perspective from another country. My wife is from another country and the average wage there is about $250 per month. The cost of living is at least as high there. In order to get by, it is normal for 3 or more generations to live together and it is normal to grow your own fruits and vegetables.
$250 per month is roughly $1.50 per hour. It makes $7.25 per hour look pretty good.
Oh man!! You're right, you definitely will be more attractive physically... Until you get old like everyone else... But you are right, it does depend on if you are happy to have stuff or happy to have nothing. Either way... I can't spend experiences... Life isn't an RPG XD.
1. Until I am old, I will have more fun and be more confident than less attractive people would. It's totally unfair and extremely vain, but true.
2. There IS a happy medium between the two!
3. I laughed. You sir, get 5 internets.
1. Until I am old, I will have more fun and be more confident than less attractive people would. It's totally unfair and extremely vain, but true.
2. There IS a happy medium between the two!
3. I laughed. You sir, get 5 internets.
Wow wow wow, you have to get old first. You have higher probability you wont get there before 99% of the population. By the way, you are not vain, you are ignorant because you assume less attractive people have less confidence. If you have to go around the world and dodge bullets to feel attractive and be more confident.... What about the attractive rich guy? They do exist. Where are you gonna get your fun and confidence when you're older and not attractive? I can guarantee you that people do not find listening to an unproductive retired old timer talk about the old days fun or attractive by any means.
Back to the thread, if you like to support a family and own stuff, then minimum wage workers should be unhappy because it's barely possible.
There is no quality to life when you are working 40 hours a week at a ☺☺☺☺ty job with no respect, and any small event like a trip to the ER sets you back months of whatever paltry sum you managed to save up.
Problem is, in this economy we have highly educated people out of work fighting for those unskilled jobs. The fast food joint in town puts out an add for 2 positions open and they get 100's of people that show up. from high schoolers to college grads to 40 and 50 year olds put out of work due to comapny moves or down sizing. It use to be you worked your way up and out of the minimum wage bracket, now alot of unemployed are fighting for those jobs they should have moved on from long ago.
I agree, but most places that pay minimum wage do not want already skilled workers. i can't tell you how many times i applied for such jobs while out of work. i didn't hear anything back either.
unemployeement in the teenage group has been due to the increase in minimum wage. people have had to cut back on hiring and hours to keep going. this has created a big under employeement in the teenage group.
as the price goes up so does the requirements to get the job.
Probably around $11 an hour depending on where you live.
Sorry but when you do this you cheapen the salary of other people. not only that you drive the price of goods up through the roof in order to pay the higher salary. there is no reason that a bus boy or a grocery bagger should get paid 11 bucks an hour.
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Sorry but when you do this you cheapen the salary of other people. not only that you drive the price of goods up through the roof in order to pay the higher salary. there is no reason that a bus boy or a grocery bagger should get paid 11 bucks an hour.
I believe he was talking about California, which has a very high cost of living.
Sorry but when you do this you cheapen the salary of other people. not only that you drive the price of goods up through the roof in order to pay the higher salary. there is no reason that a bus boy or a grocery bagger should get paid 11 bucks an hour.
I never said it should be changed, but it's where I feel someone needs to be to be able to comfortably live on their own. Perhaps a creative solution, full time mininium wage of 11, with a part-time minium wage of 8.50 or something, depending on what state your in it would change, and that would of course be in a high cost of living state like Cali.
Here in Texas, 7.25/9.50 would probably be good numbers.
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I agree, but most places that pay minimum wage do not want already skilled workers.
Well, let's put it this way. Assuming a $5 minimum wage for the sake of math, an 8 hour day is $40. It's not piecework. The college grad and the unskilled high schooler each get paid $40 for that 8-hour day. This means that if the skilled worker completes all the day's work in 5 hours, then the employer is paying them $40 for $25 worth of time, plus $15 of idle time. At, say, the McJob, where a certain number of employees have to be present at all times, paying for idle time is unappealing to management, especially when (let's be honest) you're not really gaining much value out of the skilled employees.
The reason that low-wage employers don't want skilled employees is because they know that those employees will bail the minute that anything better comes along. If an employee says that they will not do this(which most understandably will), they are most likely lying.
It's a ☺☺☺☺ty system, but the solution is 'don't pay minimum wage/low wage', which unfortunately, most employers are not willing to do(nevermind that if you take two rival businesses, the one that has better wages/benefits/etc has always shown to have more productive employees). Too many companies only focus is putting out as little money as possible, and just assuming that they will be hugely profitable anyway. I work in the call center industry, where it is virtually a fact that better reputation call centers(Godaddy.com, Google, AmEx) are always the leaders amongst their respective industries..and yet still most other companies that run call centers refuse to learn anything from this.
And sadly..they probably will. Especially with the job market right now. So many jobs now are completely terrible to their employees, because they know that the person can't just go find something else.
Also, while minimum wage is largely a necessary evil(corporate America has pretty much proven that, on the whole, we will never be able to trust them to do the right thing), minimum wage really solves almost nothing. Media outlets like presenting people that make minimum wage with complete sob stories where 'an extra dollar/2 dollars per hour would let them save up for whatever blahblah'. In reality, 99% of people making minimum wage, due to various reasons, are never going to save the money. When their pay is increased, they just spend the money. Which results in inflation, and the cost of everything rising for everyone. I say that min. wage is a necessary evil because, if we didn't have it, we'd probably have a ton of the workforce making 4 dollars an hour. Ideally, minimum wage wouldn't be necessary..but in reality, it simply is(necessary).
And yes, minimum wage jobs generally feel like the ☺☺☺☺tiest ever. Sometimes, even being unemployed feels better. At least then you're not busting your ass for 40+ hours/week, only to have nothing to show for it at the end(working full time to make just enough to pay your bills is an extremely, extremely depressing thing to have to deal with). So it's not particularly surprising that people in this situation hate their life. They hate it because it sucks.
that plus the fact that they know the skilled person is not going to stick around for any length of time. it is a fill gap till they can find something a lot better.
which means hours of wasted training etc.
I believe he was talking about California, which has a very high cost of living.
He didn't mention it, but eh. right now it is 8.00 in CA. states can set their own minimum wage to whatever they want it just can't go below the federal rate. right now the federal rate is 7.25.
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Wow wow wow, you have to get old first. You have higher probability you wont get there before 99% of the population. By the way, you are not vain, you are ignorant because you assume less attractive people have less confidence. If you have to go around the world and dodge bullets to feel attractive and be more confident.... What about the attractive rich guy? They do exist. Where are you gonna get your fun and confidence when you're older and not attractive? I can guarantee you that people do not find listening to an unproductive retired old timer talk about the old days fun or attractive by any means.
Back to the thread, if you like to support a family and own stuff, then minimum wage workers should be unhappy because it's barely possible.
You kinda got me backwards. I'm going to have more fun and confidence UNTIL me and whoever the control subject is get old. Generally speaking, of course. After that, then I've had my fun and it's all good, I'll be settled down and there'll be no more use for being attractive, but confidence is a lifetime of advantage, attractiveness is also an advantage, albeit just for the first couple decades.
Also. I'm ignorant for assuming less attractive people are less confident? Really? I'll give you a minute to think about that.
The attractive rich guy? That's cool. I'm going to be a SEAL. THAT commands more respect than all the money in the world.
Just going to throw out that being a SEAL commands exactly zero respect from me... especially when you aren't one and post about commanding respect because you're going to be one on an internet forum. Respect isn't the word I would use.
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Just going to throw out that being a SEAL commands exactly zero respect from me... especially when you aren't one and post about commanding respect because you're going to be one on an internet forum. Respect isn't the word I would use.
If you don't have respect for the deadliest and most difficult to join fighting force IN THE WORLD, then I do not hesitate to say that I would feel more offended if you DID respect me.
People have no respect. Is this new??
I'v worked as a mechanic for 4 years now, and most of the time the disrespect is some kind of attack upon myself thought their ignorant and prideful ways.
Example of a rude customer or all around idiot says:
"I'm a _______(insert whatever here) I did _______(insert thing they did once) that makes me an expert so suck my diagnosis you inbred swine!"
What People say:
"Hmm hmm... Go some where else i am unable to do that..."
or
"I'll do that..."
What the people think:
"this person is going to have me work on their wrong idea and then blame me for it when it doesn't work... And if I try to correct them now the'll just get defensive, its a lose lose situation..."
I'm sure my example applies to almost any job that interacts with customers. And I imagine that with minimum wage those negative comments are rather common. It would be understandable that it would be miserable to be talked down to all the time, or at least if you assumed that people were talking down to you all the time due to your position in life.
i survived on earning $7 an hour, took me a year to get a 50 cent raise but anyway, alittle off topic, in my personal opinion, and this is not racist at all, but if all the illegals were to be deported back to their country, like i said not racist. they just take jobs that could be worked by actual citizens of this country, and improve the economy faster, but thats just my 2 cents
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Put it this way. I make about a dollar over minimum wage. I also work my butt off, do more work (and better work) than someone who's salary and making over twice my wage. And he also gets irritated when I'm unhappy about working two doubles back to back. Then, when I look at my paycheck, I have JUST enough to pay the bills I need to pay.
Minimum wage IS soul crushing. You have to work HARD to keep your job, but you're not getting the return you want. At the point where you're working so much you have no free time just to make money to spend during your free time? At that point, you feel like reevaluating your life. And realizing there's no real fix at the present moment. It IS soulcrushing.
i survived on earning $7 an hour, took me a year to get a 50 cent raise but anyway, alittle off topic, in my personal opinion, and this is not racist at all, but if all the illegals were to be deported back to their country, like i said not racist. they just take jobs that could be worked by actual citizens of this country, and improve the economy faster, but thats just my 2 cents
The very next time you see someone who WANTS some of those jobs, you just tell me, all right? Even in this economy, with this amount of unemployment, I know a LOT of folks will just turn up their nose at the jobs that those jobs that the 'illegals' are 'taking'.
I've never found myself to be in agreement with that logic. In my experience, illegals(and even legal immigrants) generally end up working the jobs that other white people think they are too good for anyway. I can assure you that you will never find 2-3 white guys that will spend 3 hours doing yardwork for 60 bucks. They would want 120-150. But in reality, 10 dollars/hr is all that kind of work is really worth, IMO.
this is not racist at all ... like i said not racist
To be fair, you're not being racist per se, but you're still being supremely ignorant.
Illegal immigrants, some of whom work for less than minimum wage, actually help the economy somewhat rather than hurt it. If you're going to hire someone to do the most menial labour, would you rather hire them at $X/hour, or the $X+Y minimum wage? That $Y can go towards expanding the company (and no, not all money saved this way goes directly into executives' pockets, despite the stereotype). Bigger companies hire more workers. I assure you, giving these menial jobs to citizens wouldn't really help in the long run as much as you'd think.
If you don't have respect for the deadliest and most difficult to join fighting force IN THE WORLD, then I do not hesitate to say that I would feel more offended if you DID respect me.
I don't think he was referring to not having respect for a Navy Seal, but that you aren't a Navy Seal YET. Besides, Navy Seals that I've known don't brag about it. It's a job to them that has to be done, not something to gloat.
I don't think he was referring to not having respect for a Navy Seal, but that you aren't a Navy Seal YET. Besides, Navy Seals that I've known don't brag about it. It's a job to them that has to be done, not something to gloat.
Source: I'm a Tanker in the Army.
Respect is earned. Just because you sign up for one of the most deadly jobs out there does not mean you get an automatic respect card. If you're (insert profanity related to where poop comes from) why should I respect you?
You kinda got me backwards. I'm going to have more fun and confidence UNTIL me and whoever the control subject is get old. Generally speaking, of course. After that, then I've had my fun and it's all good, I'll be settled down and there'll be no more use for being attractive, but confidence is a lifetime of advantage, attractiveness is also an advantage, albeit just for the first couple decades.
Also. I'm ignorant for assuming less attractive people are less confident? Really? I'll give you a minute to think about that.
The attractive rich guy? That's cool. I'm going to be a SEAL. THAT commands more respect than all the money in the world.
Honestly I believe you're a troll at this point. I thought about it... I still stand by my previous assessment. See my above comment, just because you are a SEAL (bells and whistles with fireworks) does not = more respect. Respect is earned and honestly you haven't done anything yet in your SEAL (hot women fall from the sky) contract to even warrant respect. You are bragging about being awesome just because you got accepted. Let's see you record, then we'll talk about respect. I hear THAT (Orchestra plays) humility is pretty respectable.
I feel that if you have good experiences in life, you're much more wealthy than anyone else. If you're happy naturally, with good friends and a good family, strong hobbies and food on the table, it doesn't matter how much money you have in the bank.
Agreed. Though please note that not everybody has the good fortune of being talented, smart, good looking, or athletic, or even having the sense of happiness you get from a good family to launch from.
Most people fall near the average for most of those gifts, and some way below average. Most people don't have the brains or physical prowess to qualify for SEALS.
For example, I traveled across the world. I've been to over 40 countries in my 18 years, and just yesterday I signed a SEAL Contract with the US Navy.
do you mean you qualified and passed the DEP and PST or whatever?
Or do you mean you actually completed BUD/S? because I heard there's an 80% fail rate. No disrespect intended. I want to know if SEAL team is a goal still, or a reality.
by Being a SEAL means that I'll go through more in 3 years than more than 99% of the population will ever be able to dream of achieving.
People may have more money than me, they may have fancy toys and nice cars, private planes and lavish life styles. That's fine. I still think I've got a better life, because I'm more physically fit (and by extension oftentimes more attractive, which helps me feel better whenever some short ugly dude pulls up in a hummer.
why compare yourself?
And really, being fit is easy when you're 18. you're exceptional physically just for qualifying for SEALS, but by the time you're 30, you may end up being the short ugly dude in the hummer... only taller... Minus the hummer... Plus a beer belly.
It sounds vain, but for some reason it's true. I don't really get it either.) I've got a group of friends straight out of Lost Boys: The Tribe, if you've seen the movie, you've seen me and my friends.
I've got the best girlfriend anyone could ever ask for, she's beautiful and such a sweetheart. My family is awesome, family parties are a bunch of old people getting drunk and laughing the entire night.
look at those old people getting drunk. Good or bad, Hopefully that will be you in 20 years.
I've got a decent job right now, but pretty soon I'll be leaving for SEAL training. The pay isn't great, but what comes with the job is.
The higher class can have all the money and material things that they want. I've got my middle class life with all the best of the things money can't buy, so they can be jealous.
I wouldn't compare. Most of them aren't comparing themselves to you. Glad you're off to become a SEAL and protect American interests, but I'm definitely not jealous of a lifestyle where you will rarely see your girlfriend, and risk your life on a regular basis, and have to maybe kill other teenagers in different uniforms speaking other languages.
I think of Scott Helvenston, youngest man to ever complete SEAL training when I read your post. Former SEAL so cocky, so athletic and bright, good looking too, on COMBAT MISSIONS, trash talking everybody, not a care in the world as far as I could see...
... And I remember 2004, seeing a Blackwater contractor (betrayed and failed by those Blackwater/ now XO ☺☺☺☺wads ) dragged through the streets of Fallujah... Then hearing his name and recognizing him. He was 39, he needed the money, signed a contract with some incompetent ☺☺☺☺☺☺☺s, and even though he was inhumanly athletic and great with a gun and Urban combat, he had no 50 cal, no backup, and not even a proper map, and died to some nameless fanatic's bullet, while delivering some supplies, a mercenary in a pointless manufactured war by an idiot president.
I hope you don't put yourself in the situation where you're 30 and you need money, and the only skill you have is combat. I respect those skills, but I'm Definitely not jealous.
I can assure you that you will never find 2-3 white guys that will spend 3 hours doing yardwork for 60 bucks. They would want 120-150. But in reality, 10 dollars/hr is all that kind of work is really worth, IMO.
Last summer someone that lives by me made the statement, 'you can tell times are tough when the landscaping crews are all white guys.' I didnt think twice about it until I started to notice that almost every landscaping crew I saw was all 30 and 40 something white guys. So there are some white guys that will take the pay to do landscaping.
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Oh man!! You're right, you definitely will be more attractive physically... Until you get old like everyone else... But you are right, it does depend on if you are happy to have stuff or happy to have nothing. Either way... I can't spend experiences... Life isn't an RPG XD.
The problem is cost of living is way beyond what mininium wage is in some area's. I believe the current system has a federal min-wage, and then states can set above that. In Texas, 9 is good enough, but in places like California, or NYC it will have to be higher.
By no means is $9 an hour earning enough to live happily, it's enough to live though.
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$250 per month is roughly $1.50 per hour. It makes $7.25 per hour look pretty good.
1. Until I am old, I will have more fun and be more confident than less attractive people would. It's totally unfair and extremely vain, but true.
2. There IS a happy medium between the two!
3. I laughed. You sir, get 5 internets.
Wow wow wow, you have to get old first. You have higher probability you wont get there before 99% of the population. By the way, you are not vain, you are ignorant because you assume less attractive people have less confidence. If you have to go around the world and dodge bullets to feel attractive and be more confident.... What about the attractive rich guy? They do exist. Where are you gonna get your fun and confidence when you're older and not attractive? I can guarantee you that people do not find listening to an unproductive retired old timer talk about the old days fun or attractive by any means.
Back to the thread, if you like to support a family and own stuff, then minimum wage workers should be unhappy because it's barely possible.
I agree, but most places that pay minimum wage do not want already skilled workers. i can't tell you how many times i applied for such jobs while out of work. i didn't hear anything back either.
unemployeement in the teenage group has been due to the increase in minimum wage. people have had to cut back on hiring and hours to keep going. this has created a big under employeement in the teenage group.
as the price goes up so does the requirements to get the job.
Sorry but when you do this you cheapen the salary of other people. not only that you drive the price of goods up through the roof in order to pay the higher salary. there is no reason that a bus boy or a grocery bagger should get paid 11 bucks an hour.
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I believe he was talking about California, which has a very high cost of living.
I never said it should be changed, but it's where I feel someone needs to be to be able to comfortably live on their own. Perhaps a creative solution, full time mininium wage of 11, with a part-time minium wage of 8.50 or something, depending on what state your in it would change, and that would of course be in a high cost of living state like Cali.
Here in Texas, 7.25/9.50 would probably be good numbers.
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Well, let's put it this way. Assuming a $5 minimum wage for the sake of math, an 8 hour day is $40. It's not piecework. The college grad and the unskilled high schooler each get paid $40 for that 8-hour day. This means that if the skilled worker completes all the day's work in 5 hours, then the employer is paying them $40 for $25 worth of time, plus $15 of idle time. At, say, the McJob, where a certain number of employees have to be present at all times, paying for idle time is unappealing to management, especially when (let's be honest) you're not really gaining much value out of the skilled employees.
It's a ☺☺☺☺ty system, but the solution is 'don't pay minimum wage/low wage', which unfortunately, most employers are not willing to do(nevermind that if you take two rival businesses, the one that has better wages/benefits/etc has always shown to have more productive employees). Too many companies only focus is putting out as little money as possible, and just assuming that they will be hugely profitable anyway. I work in the call center industry, where it is virtually a fact that better reputation call centers(Godaddy.com, Google, AmEx) are always the leaders amongst their respective industries..and yet still most other companies that run call centers refuse to learn anything from this.
And sadly..they probably will. Especially with the job market right now. So many jobs now are completely terrible to their employees, because they know that the person can't just go find something else.
Also, while minimum wage is largely a necessary evil(corporate America has pretty much proven that, on the whole, we will never be able to trust them to do the right thing), minimum wage really solves almost nothing. Media outlets like presenting people that make minimum wage with complete sob stories where 'an extra dollar/2 dollars per hour would let them save up for whatever blahblah'. In reality, 99% of people making minimum wage, due to various reasons, are never going to save the money. When their pay is increased, they just spend the money. Which results in inflation, and the cost of everything rising for everyone. I say that min. wage is a necessary evil because, if we didn't have it, we'd probably have a ton of the workforce making 4 dollars an hour. Ideally, minimum wage wouldn't be necessary..but in reality, it simply is(necessary).
And yes, minimum wage jobs generally feel like the ☺☺☺☺tiest ever. Sometimes, even being unemployed feels better. At least then you're not busting your ass for 40+ hours/week, only to have nothing to show for it at the end(working full time to make just enough to pay your bills is an extremely, extremely depressing thing to have to deal with). So it's not particularly surprising that people in this situation hate their life. They hate it because it sucks.
that plus the fact that they know the skilled person is not going to stick around for any length of time. it is a fill gap till they can find something a lot better.
which means hours of wasted training etc.
He didn't mention it, but eh. right now it is 8.00 in CA. states can set their own minimum wage to whatever they want it just can't go below the federal rate. right now the federal rate is 7.25.
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You kinda got me backwards. I'm going to have more fun and confidence UNTIL me and whoever the control subject is get old. Generally speaking, of course. After that, then I've had my fun and it's all good, I'll be settled down and there'll be no more use for being attractive, but confidence is a lifetime of advantage, attractiveness is also an advantage, albeit just for the first couple decades.
Also. I'm ignorant for assuming less attractive people are less confident? Really? I'll give you a minute to think about that.
The attractive rich guy? That's cool. I'm going to be a SEAL. THAT commands more respect than all the money in the world.
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If you don't have respect for the deadliest and most difficult to join fighting force IN THE WORLD, then I do not hesitate to say that I would feel more offended if you DID respect me.
I'v worked as a mechanic for 4 years now, and most of the time the disrespect is some kind of attack upon myself thought their ignorant and prideful ways.
Example of a rude customer or all around idiot says:
"I'm a _______(insert whatever here) I did _______(insert thing they did once) that makes me an expert so suck my diagnosis you inbred swine!"
What People say:
"Hmm hmm... Go some where else i am unable to do that..."
or
"I'll do that..."
What the people think:
"this person is going to have me work on their wrong idea and then blame me for it when it doesn't work... And if I try to correct them now the'll just get defensive, its a lose lose situation..."
I'm sure my example applies to almost any job that interacts with customers. And I imagine that with minimum wage those negative comments are rather common. It would be understandable that it would be miserable to be talked down to all the time, or at least if you assumed that people were talking down to you all the time due to your position in life.
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Minimum wage IS soul crushing. You have to work HARD to keep your job, but you're not getting the return you want. At the point where you're working so much you have no free time just to make money to spend during your free time? At that point, you feel like reevaluating your life. And realizing there's no real fix at the present moment. It IS soulcrushing.
The very next time you see someone who WANTS some of those jobs, you just tell me, all right? Even in this economy, with this amount of unemployment, I know a LOT of folks will just turn up their nose at the jobs that those jobs that the 'illegals' are 'taking'.
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To be fair, you're not being racist per se, but you're still being supremely ignorant.
Illegal immigrants, some of whom work for less than minimum wage, actually help the economy somewhat rather than hurt it. If you're going to hire someone to do the most menial labour, would you rather hire them at $X/hour, or the $X+Y minimum wage? That $Y can go towards expanding the company (and no, not all money saved this way goes directly into executives' pockets, despite the stereotype). Bigger companies hire more workers. I assure you, giving these menial jobs to citizens wouldn't really help in the long run as much as you'd think.
I don't think he was referring to not having respect for a Navy Seal, but that you aren't a Navy Seal YET. Besides, Navy Seals that I've known don't brag about it. It's a job to them that has to be done, not something to gloat.
Source: I'm a Tanker in the Army.
Respect is earned. Just because you sign up for one of the most deadly jobs out there does not mean you get an automatic respect card. If you're (insert profanity related to where poop comes from) why should I respect you?
Honestly I believe you're a troll at this point. I thought about it... I still stand by my previous assessment. See my above comment, just because you are a SEAL (bells and whistles with fireworks) does not = more respect. Respect is earned and honestly you haven't done anything yet in your SEAL (hot women fall from the sky) contract to even warrant respect. You are bragging about being awesome just because you got accepted. Let's see you record, then we'll talk about respect. I hear THAT (Orchestra plays) humility is pretty respectable.
Most people fall near the average for most of those gifts, and some way below average. Most people don't have the brains or physical prowess to qualify for SEALS.
do you mean you qualified and passed the DEP and PST or whatever?
Or do you mean you actually completed BUD/S? because I heard there's an 80% fail rate. No disrespect intended. I want to know if SEAL team is a goal still, or a reality.
why compare yourself?
And really, being fit is easy when you're 18. you're exceptional physically just for qualifying for SEALS, but by the time you're 30, you may end up being the short ugly dude in the hummer... only taller... Minus the hummer... Plus a beer belly.
look at those old people getting drunk. Good or bad, Hopefully that will be you in 20 years.
I wouldn't compare. Most of them aren't comparing themselves to you. Glad you're off to become a SEAL and protect American interests, but I'm definitely not jealous of a lifestyle where you will rarely see your girlfriend, and risk your life on a regular basis, and have to maybe kill other teenagers in different uniforms speaking other languages.
I think of Scott Helvenston, youngest man to ever complete SEAL training when I read your post. Former SEAL so cocky, so athletic and bright, good looking too, on COMBAT MISSIONS, trash talking everybody, not a care in the world as far as I could see...
... And I remember 2004, seeing a Blackwater contractor (betrayed and failed by those Blackwater/ now XO ☺☺☺☺wads ) dragged through the streets of Fallujah... Then hearing his name and recognizing him. He was 39, he needed the money, signed a contract with some incompetent ☺☺☺☺☺☺☺s, and even though he was inhumanly athletic and great with a gun and Urban combat, he had no 50 cal, no backup, and not even a proper map, and died to some nameless fanatic's bullet, while delivering some supplies, a mercenary in a pointless manufactured war by an idiot president.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Helvenston
I hope you don't put yourself in the situation where you're 30 and you need money, and the only skill you have is combat. I respect those skills, but I'm Definitely not jealous.
Last summer someone that lives by me made the statement, 'you can tell times are tough when the landscaping crews are all white guys.' I didnt think twice about it until I started to notice that almost every landscaping crew I saw was all 30 and 40 something white guys. So there are some white guys that will take the pay to do landscaping.