Alwin Thank you for that minimum wage comment...you are absolutely right minimum wage should be a STARTING place...no matter where you work...for example....at 14 I got my very first job working at a gas station on weekends I was making 3.15 per hour (minimum wage in 1984), i worked there 3 months until I turned 15 and got a job at Burgerking making (3.45 per hour), after 3 months I got a promotion to trainer and made (4.00 per hour)...another 3 months and became shift leader (5.75 per hour).........left that job and began work at friendlies (now 16).....worked friendlies as a (1 cone ace) that means I knew how to do ice-cream only (5.85 per hour (because of my resteraunt experience)) then I learned Grill (now 2 cone ace) another 15 cents per hour (6.00).....by the time I was 18 I was (4 cone ace..which means I could do anything in the resteraunt and was making (7.25 per hour) remember this was 1988 then I Joined the Navy........now 24 years after I got my first job I am making 62,000 per year, at a civilian job (I know its not allot but its over the national average)...and I am rising each year....my whole point here is that even in minimum wage job locations there is always opportunities for advancement the trick is you have to take advantage of those opportunities and do the things required to make more....no one should sit at minimum wage for there whole lives...if they are I am sorry...they aren't trying hard enough.

My 2 cents

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