What to do? Well, why is your income so low compared to others? In America, if you want to survive well, you need to do what they told you in the first grade. Go to school, study hard and learn your lessons, believe in yourself, set goals, and don't let anything stop you from attaining those goals. Life in the United States is an opportunity...not a welfare line to stand in.
If you are young and are working for minimum wage, where we all started out, you should be in school, too. Because that is not where any of us want to stay. You work, you learn how to be a good employee, you learn a skill, you should always be looking for a better job. Always. Minimum wage jobs are entry level jobs and are meant to be positions for learning. Once you learn the skill of the job and of being a reliable employee you are expected to move on.
If there are simply no better jobs around, you have a choice. You can start your own business or you can move to a place where job prospects are better. Or you can stay where you are and protest for a higher income.
Things your Dad should have told you:
Be trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent. It's the Scout Law and it applies to everyone as a code for success.
Remember, we are all human beings. Most of us are doing our best. What you hear about in social and television media is news about those who have problems that they have brought on themselves by making mistakes and poor decisions. They are a small number in our large group. Help is available for them but our country is not able to support them. Working toward progress is up to them, just like it is for everyone else. Those that blame the country, conservatives, one race or another...those people are giving the poor a reason for suffering, not relief from suffering.
If you are young and are working for minimum wage, where we all started out, you should be in school, too. Because that is not where any of us want to stay. You work, you learn how to be a good employee, you learn a skill, you should always be looking for a better job. Always. Minimum wage jobs are entry level jobs and are meant to be positions for learning. Once you learn the skill of the job and of being a reliable employee you are expected to move on.
If there are simply no better jobs around, you have a choice. You can start your own business or you can move to a place where job prospects are better. Or you can stay where you are and protest for a higher income.
Things your Dad should have told you:
Be trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent. It's the Scout Law and it applies to everyone as a code for success.
Remember, we are all human beings. Most of us are doing our best. What you hear about in social and television media is news about those who have problems that they have brought on themselves by making mistakes and poor decisions. They are a small number in our large group. Help is available for them but our country is not able to support them. Working toward progress is up to them, just like it is for everyone else. Those that blame the country, conservatives, one race or another...those people are giving the poor a reason for suffering, not relief from suffering.
