Mike got an interesting learning

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Mike got an interesting learning
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Thu, 05-31-2007 - 8:51am
experience last night.

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Thu, 05-31-2007 - 11:08am

Hehe dd had a similar learning experience - she got the job at the kennels. Yesterday was her first day - she's essentially a pooper scooper and puppy babysitter. One of the puppies pee'd on her yesterday lol ;p While she was "scooping poop" out in the field - all the adult dogs would run out in the pond and then run up and jump on dd, she's convinced the dogs planned it - LMAO she was only there for 2.5 hours yesterday and she was FILTHY!! Ha and she also learned she DID NOT want to wear flipflps there lol...




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Thu, 05-31-2007 - 12:09pm
That's how I felt when I worked in a box factory when I was 16. My job was to assemble the partitions that go in the boxes (think Christmas ornament boxes, but they come in all sizes). My friend's uncle owned the factory and she worked there w/ me, so it wasn't that bad as factory work goes, but I couldn't imagine that people spent their whole lives doing this. I was always a good student. I think it's good for kids to have these low paying jobs to give them some incentive to do better.
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Thu, 05-31-2007 - 1:04pm
I had a similar factory experience - only in a canning factory.
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Thu, 05-31-2007 - 1:32pm

I just wonder how any adult can support themselves w/a minimum wage job, esp. in the Northeast where I live and housing is so expensive. I know a lot of people do and they have no choice because of lack of opportunity, lack of knowledge of English, or whatever. I'm glad I had the chance to go to college and that my kids have that chance also.

I also remember when my DD got her first paycheck and she said "what is this money they are taking out of my check like FICA?" That was another surprise.

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Thu, 05-31-2007 - 2:02pm

While there is nothing wrong with encouraging our kids to do well and to strive high for themselves, there is NOTHING shameful in working at any of the jobs mentioned.....my son works at a grocery store, and corralls carts...it's hard work.....it's hot/cold, wet, humid, nasty stuff in the carts....who wants to deal with that? Yet someone has to...

I think it is just as inconsiderate to teach our children that certain jobs are 'beneath' us as well...if you work for a living, put food on your table, or whatever, why is the type of job involved a big deal? It's honorable to work and make a living, regardless of how it is accomplished. If some of our kids end up as factory workers and cart corralers, more power to them if they do the job well.

I understand the spirit of which the post was meant, but there is nothing wrong with working hard for a living---

I don't mean to come across as negative, but we should teach our kids how to respect all jobs...we wouldn't have our way of life without people doing the jobs nobody else wants.....

Thanks for letting me vent...
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Thu, 05-31-2007 - 2:20pm

I don't mean to imply that having a blue collar job is somehow less or that people who do those jobs shouldn't be respected. I think of that when I see the men come to collect my trash, how that's a hard, terrible job that I surely wouldn't want to do, but it's not that I don't respect them for earning a living.

I do feel that if it is within their ability, I would like for my children to have more than a minimum wage job since it would be practically impossible to support a family, never mind even trying to support one person. I have a very nice cousin who graduated from college and now (he's in his mid-30's) works in a donut shop. He seems pretty happy even though he has not much in the way of material possessions and doesn't even own a car. Of course, he's unmarried and has no kids. But he got sick last year and because he didn't have health insurance or the money to pay a doctor, never got treated. Those are the kind of probelms that might occur. His sister, who is an accountant in a bank, ended up widowed at a very young age w/ a small child. Luckily, she makes enough money to support them. What if she had been the one working in a low wage job w/ no health insurance? who would support her & her child?

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Fri, 06-01-2007 - 9:31am
Don't you love it when they learn something new!
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Fri, 06-01-2007 - 9:32am
I agree!
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Fri, 06-01-2007 - 9:33am
I worked in a pizza shot....in a non-AC kitchen and it was awful!
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Fri, 06-01-2007 - 9:36am
LOL!!!

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