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When I'm in stores and see "help wanted" signs (which I see often and they don't seem to get taken down very quickly), I ask whether they're getting a lot of applicants. I'm yet to hear anyone say, "Yes".
I get that these are not necessarily desirable jobs, but they are jobs. Why aren't people taking them if they're so desperate?!?!?
The stores around here don't have a lot of those signs.
I can't remember the last time I saw a "help wanted" sign in a store window...that's kind of an outdated way of looking for help. Not that it doesn't happen, I'm sure it does, but if nobody is applying perhaps they need to rethink their methods.
It's not the low pay that stops folks from taking jobs on the bottom rung - it's the lousy rate of return. No boost to the minimum wage will resolve the real problem. The buying power has steadily decreased, thanks to the never ending tax burden, as well as socialist overhead. In 1900, a $1 a day was good pay. In 2010, $10 / hour is barely making it.
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I checked our local paper's classified ad's. It had jobs listed that about anyone could do. Everything from farm labor to nursing to shoe store manager.
I didn't notice the part about nursing being on a par with farm labor and shoe store manager. I guess we nurses have a long way to go in educating the public about what we do. Perhaps the OP is one of those who still considers nurses on a par with prostitutes.
I didn't notice the part about nursing being on a par with farm labor and shoe store manager. I guess we nurses have a long way to go in educating the public about what we do. Perhaps the OP is one of those who still considers nurses on a par with prostitutes.
Wow. I've been alive for a long tme, and I've been around the block a few tmies, and I have never encountered anyone anywhere who would hold that opinion.
Wow. I've been alive for a long tme, and I've been around the block a few tmies, and I have never encountered anyone anywhere who would hold that opinion.
As nursing was not considered acceptable even to the industrial classes nurses were usually immoral, drunken, illiterate, and/or prostitutes. Nurses were considered to be the lowest level of human society.
I checked our local paper's classified ad's. It had jobs listed that about anyone could do. Everything from farm labor to nursing to shoe store manager. Now let's say you are on the verge of being homeless, do you not at least go to a farmer and tell them you will cut tobacco or scoop chicken s--t? Perhaps it's because alot of people have become so freaking lazy in this country that they think they are "above" doing hard labor. Maybe we give way too much unemployment benefits out and it gives out of workers reason to sit on their a-- all day and do nothing. Sure, it may not be as much money as you made before, but wouldn't you have some pride in yourself in knowing that you are doing ALL you can for your family.
There is truth in what you're saying. I knew a guy who said he wouldn't get out of bed for less than $15 an hour. When it's time to eat and pay bills, dang son, you take it if it only pays you $5. Still better than nothing.
And the last time I was looking for work, I wanted to replace a job I already had. I didn't want to pick something that would pay less than what I was already making, so...
Anyway, with that being said, just because you're willing to take any job, does not mean that the business wants to give YOU the job.
I really dont blame women that work as prostitutes or escorts to support themselves & their families. It should be legal in ca but regulated like in amsterdam. We all pay for it one way or the other. The economy in the u.s is horrible. Obama is doing a POOR job so far.
I didn't notice the part about nursing being on a par with farm labor and shoe store manager. I guess we nurses have a long way to go in educating the public about what we do. Perhaps the OP is one of those who still considers nurses on a par with prostitutes.
To give the OP a little credit, not everyone is cut out for farm labor either, but I suppose he's referring to jobs that anyone with a little education could get. I'm not honestly sure of the hierarchy myself, but how many years of schooling can you have and get a CNA certificate (in other words, you don't necessarily have to go to a college, just a "trade school". I know both RN's and LPN's take more schooling.
Of course, that education requires money to get, and if you don't have a job, you can't get it (education). It seems no one wants to hire the inexperienced--so that they can GET the experience.
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