Why? If your spouse earns enough to support, or mostly support the family, any money is "extra" and McDonald'has flexible hours and doesn't require any skills.the same amount as a 45 year married fry cook with 3 kids and a mortgage--minimum wage as long as someone else equally capable is willing to do it at minimum wage
If you are 45, and working part time, as a fry cook, when you have 3 kids and mortgage..... then you are an idiot.
All of that is true, but at same time if you are in fact 45 years old... unless you have been in a comma for 20 years, you MUST HAVE some amount of skills, that would be worth more than McDonald's burger flipper at minimum wage. I refuse to believe you are 45 and have no skills whatsoever. What have you been doing for the last 25 years?
And if you have skills, and refuse to use them, that is kinda stupid in my book.
There are NUMEROUS jobs that can earn more than minimum wage with very little effort.
Can you push a mower? You can write your own scheduled there too. You can earn the same amount of money working 3 days a week, mowing lawns, as you can 40 hours at McDs.
You could even walk dogs 3 days a week, and earn more than 40 hours a McDs.
Heck you could run a steamer carpet cleaner, and earn 5 times a wage at McDs. How much skill is requires to push a steam sweeper system across of floor? You can make your own hours then too.
The only way working at McDs makes any intelligent sense, is if you intend to go through their management training, and they require you to work a year as a minimum wage burger flipper.
I don't know if that's a requirement or not, but that's the only way it makes sense. Otherwise, honestly, you are lazy. Get your butt in gear, and do something with your life.
Only if you get your CDL, which Is an investment you might not want, and the hours and travel can be difficult.
Well crap... if the excuse is "I don't want to", then you deserve what you get. Every good thing in life takes effort. Everything worth doing, takes sweat equity. If you are not willing to do anything because "I don't want to", then you don't deserve jack squat, and certainly nothing from society.
And by the way, getting a CDL isn't hard at all. I got my CDL. My co-worker lady got her CDL. Two of the ladies actually have their CDL. I've seen guys in their 60s getting CDL, and young boys 19 years old getting their CDL. It's not hard. You can come up with an excuse for everything in life, but that just make you a wimp. Do what you need to do to succeed in life, or shut up.
perhaps, but would it meet the schedule you want and would it require additional investment (of time or money) and would it be something you want to do?
You don't get everything you want in life. Sometimes you have to do what you have to do. One time after a was laid off from a job, I got the most miserable job I have ever had. It was 4 PM to 1 AM, working in a factory making propane tanks. It was August, and when the temp was 90ºF outside, it was 110ºF inside. And at the same time you had to wear protective goggles, and arm bands, and mittens, because the propane tanks rolling off the line, were hot enough that if your skin touched them, it would melt, and stay on them.
You started sweating the moment you entered the plant. You didn't stop until long after you started for home. When you got home, you had a showered and washed the crystallized salt from your sweat, out of your hair.
You think it was fun? You think I was having a cheery time? Dancing on my way to work? Of course not.
But I'm not a boy. I'm an adult, and I have bills, and I have to take care of my responsibilities. You don't get to whine about "well I want the shift I want, and the flexibility I want, and I don't want anything that requires too much effort, or any real skills, or any discomfort in my life......."
That's baby talk. Grow up. Be a man. Turn off the TV, and start working like the rest of us.
Now I didn't do that forever, but I paid my bills, while I looked for another job. And I eventually got another job, more in line with what I like to do. But I get a little tired of this
"well I don't want to do anything I don't like, and I'm spoiled, so I'm going to work at McDs because it's easy, and that's all I'll do with my life is whatever is easy."
That's something a pathetic person says.
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