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Originally Posted by pseudoreality
There's nothing wrong with menial jobs being a stepping stone in someone's life. I have a friend who use to work at McDonalds. After a number of years she saved enough to buy a food truck. It was very successful. Now she has a reasturant, catering business and was recently on Chopped Canada. She has the same smile on her face now as she did when she worked at McDonalds. Oh, and her manager couldn't have that bad as she ended up marrying him.
People who think they are stuck in menial jobs are really just stuck in there own negative head space. Life is what you make of it.
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I think you are somewhat missing the point and somewhat projecting.
Nowhere did I mean to imply there is anything wrong with jobs like fast food. Most of my family tree is unskilled laborers. But the initial point was enjoying ones work. I doubt you would find very many people that work in fast food enjoy their work or picked that job because thats what they dreamed of doing when they were little.
Furthermore, the larger point I was making about both conversations is not that people can't use menial jobs as stepping stones or temporary gigs, but that in our current economy it requires a plethora of those jobs exist. So if we all had our dream job who is left to flip the burgers? And to the other point, if everyone were to pull themselves up by the bootstraps who is left to flip the burgers?