this is what i don't get. why don't people want something that they can do that has very low requirements, low expectations, and a decent check attached to it, if you have even a decent relationship with another person you can get a roommate if you're really struggling this much. it's insane that people can't figure this out.
I work as a Professional Meat Cutter, and before that fast food, Retail and service industry jobs are not hard, they are simply soul crushing for different reasons.
1, servicing customers is a death by a thousand cuts, this isn't an issue for me, but for many, it is.
2, you have no upward mobility without luck or people literally fucking dying and no one in the entire company or out of the company can replace them, and generally, all places hire management outside of company now, they do not want to promote anyone, so the position you get, unless you are a Women or a Nig and promoting you fills a quota, is the position you have.
combined with 3, there are no real raises or wage increases of any kind anymore, most places will have a set yearly wage, and nothing you do good will increase it, and it will be almost for sure, under 20 cents a year, and you are already going to be making an absurdly low wage as it is, and alot of places have a set cap on how high this can even go.
thus if you work retail, you are consigned to it indefinitely, no amount of go-getting will get you higher, the only reason I'm a meat cutter is I knew how to cut meat from my redneck relatives and told the cutter manager who just fired 2 people to at least try me out, a complete freak chance that you likely wont get, because people in my position aren't going to give it up because it pays double or triple what everyone else makes.
alot of people aren't interested in getting a job that is designed to keep you there and no where else for the rest of your life.
