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Originally Posted by GirlySports
Sure but some of that is misguided.
1. When did minimum wage jobs become a career?
- When we were kids, minimum wage jobs were delivering flyers, pumping gas, working fast food only for teenagers. It was always a stepping stone to something better. We all have moved on from our first minimum wage job. Some of us probably never worked a minimum wage. My first job was a cashier at Superstore in 1996 and it was way above minimum wage.
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They became a career when the demand for employees in higher than minimum wage jobs got outpaced by the supply for the same jobs. Many things contributed to this such as, a larger population of qualified candidates (higher numbers in the educated and trained) both domestically and internationally or jobs traditionally based locally being lost to both technology (automation) and outsourcing (cheaper and sometimes, better). This leads to people taking work they otherwise wouldn't do since they need to live.