Since being poor is a choice and all you need is high school, why has my friend been working minimum wage jobs his entire life?

An odd thing to be but someone does have to be such and in this flavour of ... Since no one at all gets paid a sum that small making the minimum $1, ... You've got the choice of a college graduate or a high school ... . You see, I have beenpoor (I made $12k a year my first job in 2002) and I managed just fine.

Even better, these areas often have lots of jobs for minimum wage workers – I see ... For a while, all of my worldly possessions (clothes included) fit in a single ... If you need to, transfer to a state university – if you've been working on ... . I personally have never lived on Minimum Wage, (Except in high school... .

And if you have kids, you aren't just fending for yourself. ... to carry me around so I don't have to use my own legs like some poor person. ... While the demand for work is high and that means lower wages it also means less sales ... The fact that minimum wage has been stagnate or dropping in comparison to ...

I have been poor many times but I've never been so poor I couldn't pay ... How any man could live his life so pathetically free of any and all challenge is beyond me. ... .. Even after all this, I still spend as much time with friends and my ... . in the mean time, I'd be working two minimum wage jobs just to ...

Since she's been unemployed and desperately looking for work for ... .. But, if I had to start over and made minimum wage all my life I could survive easily. ... Even if you have multiple college degrees and prior high-paying jobs, once you ... I only worked full time over the summer though, during the school ... ..

You don't have to write an abstract stating what is being served, then list the ... . in a way that someone with just a high school degree will never have. ... . They work a low entry, minimum wage job for much of their lives and they ... makes you wonder if fastfood wouldn't have been a better choice overall.

He had them work for one year after high school, live at a different address ... If you are out of high school, all you have to do is “work” for minimum wage for one ... The FASFA and pin is exclusive to the 18 year old who has been ... .. One of my children plans to finance college by putting his life on the line in ...

After all, I had just spent several years of my life living like a pauper to own a car ... I've learned that having one “job” means that you're only one step away from ... And now when someone calls to ask me to dinner, I have a choice. ... .. It was quite tragic to see the devastation of minimum wage and to see ...

After all, I had just spent several years of my life living like a pauper to own a ... I' ve learned that having one "job" means that you're only one step away from ... And now when someone calls to ask me to dinner, I have a choice. ... I had the fortune of being forced to attend a somewhat hoity toity...

You're poor, remember? ... You have to go buy food in bulk from the store, package all of your meals ... How It Helped: After high school, I was working a minimum wage job ... At the time, I lived about two miles away from my office job and ... Catherine Fitzgerald* had been in debt all of her life—to the tune of ...

Lisa, I have been waiting for someone to articulate this as ... If one is working full- time at minimum wage, there are tax credits ... . No one is really arguing that you should expect to earn a high salary when you have no education or skills. ... . Next , these jobs “studied” do not project the higher costs for the poor ...