Yeah I'm with Alwin on that one. You guys who worked in the food industry can attest too probably. I had more waiters and waitresses working for me with degrees in psych and sociology than those without degrees.


When I was in the food industry, most of my coworkers (including myself) were too young or too listless to have degrees. The mostly highly educated staff member was the manager, who IIRC held an AA.

My experience certainly isn't global, but Sisyphean is the best adjective I know of to describe the environment and work. This was not a group of proud and educated workers making a living for themselves in the way they were most comfortable; it was people who could do no better with their lives serving those who could. It was an important experience for me because it drove me to get that supposedly useless degree and never put myself in that position again.

Well, that and I think my bartending license is still valid. That's handy sometimes.