The worst-paying jobs in America

Ha! No, they yell about bad grades and write angry things in my reviews (though most of mine are pretty positive, but there is always one…). They USED to yell at me if their food was wrong, back when I was in food service. But I never worked at a taco bell. mcdonalds, then a small local restaurant back home, then a mellow mushroom (back before it got so corporate).

Incidentally, this always irritates me when I see people in restaurants act like this, not just because I used to work in food service either. It’s just rude and shitty behavior. I’m always super-polite to restaurant workers and I always over-tip in sit down places, because I know that there is some jackass being rude to them at least once that day.

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OMFG I actually worked for a short insane stint at the very rare genuine 1800s style libertarian private rural fire & ambulance department. The thing was a mess, turnover at unheard of levels in fire and rescue, fraudulent billing on the EMS side which I was supposed to be running was rampant, the equipment was repaired and cobbled together by an assistant chief who should have run a shop class; he loved to tinker and weld but not spend budget for proper functional equipment(also an anti-semite). They would put out a fire as long as the homeowner was either a dues paying member of the club or signed a ‘save your house’ contract on the spot for several tens of thousands of dollars. I couldn’t take it, had to go.

BTW when you hear the term plug ugly it was the 1800’s name for the biggest and fighty-est fireman who would guard the hose plugged into the fire plug in the wooden water mains supplying the steam or hand pumper. Fire companies would do dirty tricks and fight over water so they would get to bill for the extinguishing contract. As a sometimes socialist sometimes utopian libertarian I saw first hand and learned from history that greed makes libertarian fire and rescue a bad idea.

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In a way this is a filter which only allows those who can self fund pass through, it ends up being a subsidy to the rich or at least well off who are the only ones who can support a family member along on the path to a great paying skilled or upper management/executive profession. Much like the 1-2 year unpaid or minimum wage internships in some countries for things like the legal profession.

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