We're in the Money

Life is as rotten as can be if you are in the bottom of the income spectrum.

It's change we can all believe in, even when we have utterly no change in our pockets:

The survey revealed that many people at the lowest rung in the workplace view their jobs as a dead end. Half were “not too” or “not at all” confident that their jobs would help them achieve long-term career goals. And only 41 percent of workers at the same place for more than a decade reported ever receiving a promotion.

Yet 44 percent of employers surveyed said it’s hard to recruit people with appropriate skills or experiences to do lower-wage jobs, particularly in manufacturing (54 percent). While 88 percent of employers said they were investing in training and education for employee advancement, awareness and use of such programs among the lower-wage workers was only modest.

Employers are so full of shit. They want people to have all of these "skills," but they want to pay people 10 bucks an hour, part-time, with no benefits.

You pay trash, you will get trash or very desperate people who will quit at the first opportunity to better themselves.

And for those who have ambitions to make poverty-level pay for the rest of their lives, here are the eight lowest-paying jobs in the country:

1. Food preparation and serving workers, including fast food

2. Dishwashers

3. Cashiers

4. Hosts and hostesses

5. Amusement park attendants

6. Movie theater ushers, ticket takers

7. Farm workers

8. Personal and home care aides


These are some of the hardest jobs in the economy and necessary jobs, but they pay absolute shit.