work your way up? uneducated (that's book or trade) people don't work their way up in america today and haven't for a long time. that's why this minimum wage thing is all the rage because they know they'll be in that shyt job or jobs like that for a long time so their hope is to make that shyt job pay better. their life is shyt job supplemented by govt benefits and that's their future. i feel people like that are written off when they are younger and in school because they are unmotivated and no one is pushing them because they are easily replaced in the economy with educated (again book or trade) legal immigrants. basically legal immigration keeps us stocked with qualified labor and the economy ticking and it's a way to say to those that need extra attention "oh ok you don't get it right away, fukk you then." if they didn't have that easy out i guarantee you they would put more effort into extracting every bit of potential out of our kids. but we can brain drain the world to prosperity and tell our lower classes: "tough shyt, we don't need you."
This is very untrue.
Most people are caught in the average trap...and then wonder why their life isnt changing.
Most people I know are either self employed, business owners, or in sales.
I can tell you from personal experience that they are all looking for highly motivated people that work hard and push.
Most people just arent like that.
Most people want to work a 9 to 5 and relax on the weekends.
Thats fine if thats all you want in life...but people who want to be rich put in the hours...and are focused on self improvement.
You dont need a college education...you just need drive & ambition.
You need to work on increasing your worth everyday.
The life you have is the result of what goes on in your brain.
For example...
How to find a job...
Most people look for a job by sending their resume out and hoping they get a call back...thats lazy average shyt.
First you need to pick a handful of places you want to work at.
Find out who the decision makers are (not HR)...and then find a way to get in front of them.
Call them...find out where they eat lunch...let them know you exist and are ready to work your ass off...sell yourself!!
You see a difference between the two?
Its all in how you attack life and see the world.
The reason people dont see eye to eye with the minimum wage thing is because the people who dont believe in raising the minimum wage look at it like this...
People against raising the minimum wage believe in order to make more money, you have to raise your worth. You can raise your worth in many ways, not just a college education.
They think all you need is the ambition to want more in life.
The other side of the coin is people who believe every person...no matter how few skills they have, deserve a certain amount of money.
They tend to be people like you who think the system is fixed, and that some people, no matter what, will be stuck where they are in life.