01-13-2017, 01:32 PM
(01-13-2017, 06:16 AM)Danilynn Wrote: Pulling up bootstraps:
Yeah, I understand this and do it daily.
I've worked 2 and 3 jobs at a time my whole life. I still work 2 jobs.
I haven't been able and none of my Xer friends either to go out together because all of us are working like this. See we are taking care of our parents AND our kids.
SO if we seem a bit bitchy, it's because we are tired. Some of us are tired and doing all this while fighting life altering medical stuff. Some of us are just dead inside from exhaustion. I'm tired. I'm exhausted. And I know I'll drop dead working.
People should not have to work 2 or 3 jobs just to get by, but it is quite common in the US today. People should not be worked until they drop dead. This is supposed to be the richest country in the world; it is easy to see that money is worth more than human beings here.
Minimum wage should be increased so that there is an actual advantage to taking a part time job for extra money. For a person in their prime of life trying to provide and care for a household, a PT $7.75 an hour job isn't worth wasting the time on, even if (ideally) it is the sort of job one can forget about after clocking out for the day in order to concentrate on one's main job or other pressing matters. Raising MW to $15 per hour seems rather drastic, but it has been raised substantially in the past. https://www.dol.gov/featured/minimum-wage/chart1 Perhaps a compromise can be found, though only one or two dollars more per hour isn't going to cut it. Paying people fair living wages is the best way to ensure that the "safety net" doesn't become a "hammock."
I am very sorry about your illness. I hope things improve for you. Hopefully you at least have people who care about you and support you, emotionally and in other ways if needed. Woe to those in this country who don't.