Print Edition: March 13, 2013
I’ve had my fair share of minimum wage jobs. And even after all the mistreatment from customers, managers and difficult coworkers, I still think that this sort of employment is good for the soul, and not just in a Calvinist sort of way.
Here’s why you should take comfort and know that you’re taking more away from your minimum wage job than your criminally small pay check.
I moonlight as a gas station attendant (shockingly, being a student journalist does not cover all of my expenses). Gas stations are one of those places where you see everyone, from the bejeweled gangster driving an equally bejeweled Hummer, the suited business woman in her polished Lexus, to the down and out guy who collects the cans and bottles from the garbage bins before coming to pay for a pack of budget cigarettes with a handful of change. Eight hours of attempting small talk with this assortment of people makes for a long day. I’ve had to find inventive ways to amuse
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