I totally get that! When I visited the most was when they had the dollar menu and I honestly used it to survive back then. These days it’s the app and only sometimes but same thing.
You couldn’t beat $3.75 for 2 sandwiches and a small fry when I had $20 to my name that had to somehow last me the work week!
I’m doing my part helping put McDonald’s out of business. They aren’t cheap anymore and somehow the quality has gotten worse. I went from going once a week many years back to once a month then a few times a year to never. Every time I go I’m disappointed.
I did it the hard way. Job hopping! I’m in IT without a degree (I have certs now but didn’t when I started). I have years of experience because I took entry level positions but had gaps in my knowledge due to not having a formal education. I started finding jobs that I had 80% of the know how from previous employers specifically. The pay would always be low for what I was doing, but it was a trade off since I had things to learn. I had to look for companies that weren’t willing to pay top dollar for IT so they’d be willing to ignore my lack of experience on some things.
After landing the job, I’d focus on that 20% specifically for resume bullet points. After 1 year (very important to stay for at least 1 year!), I’d evaluate. Sometimes I’d jump ship taking along with me any references, promotions (job titles are important folks), and certs I could along the way. Sometimes I’d stay longer than a year depending on what was happening. The pay was never right so I knew I wasn’t going to stay.
Most of these places were small to medium sized, toxic, unprofessional, and had high attrition rates.
After years of that, I started landing positions mostly based on the network I built of professional references. I have professional friends that help me out that are higher up on the latter and I have ones that I help / bring up with me that are below me on the latter.
Being honest, this was not the easy way by far and I don’t even know if you could still do what I did.
Today though, I have steady employment working for a large organization. My pay is good but not great. I’m not rich but I can make rent and have some left over for savings working only 40 hours a week. Really that’s all I ever wanted! I’m still working on my career but I’m happy I don’t have to do it while killing myself to not starve anymore!
Anybody upset about this needs to be upset with their employer. If you need to work over 12 hours a day everyday you’re being severely underpaid. Saying this as a guy that used to do it to survive. My boss would praise me and tell people everyone needed to be more like me while knowing damn well why I was doing what I was doing. Tried to be the empathetic hand while completely exploiting me.
Yeah I think the concept is people with that much money always want more. Either they are people that made their millions and want to make more said millions or they inherited that money and they are trying to bring more in for their family. Either way, character is the most important thing. Take AOC for instance. She’s got a net worth of something like $80k. Takes no kickbacks, doesn’t own stock, only accepts donations from people instead of super PACs. Her financial practices SHOULD be the norm as a public servant! Unfortunately that’s not the case
Jared Polis is a prime example of why people need to stop electing rich people. His true colors really started to show after he was elected for his final term.
Agreed but they wouldn’t be stupid if inflation wasn’t so fucking high!
Him and that googly eyed mother fucker that runs the FBI
I hate to agree with someone from the Trump administration but kava is far from “snake oil”. It’s considered nature’s Xanax for a reason! I’m personally not a huge fan of the effects and yeah, it causes some liver damage if you use it too often and frequently but so do a lot of things (looking at you alcohol). This plant should not be banned or illegal in my opinion.
If anyone’s interested, a guy named Metta Beshay has plenty of extensive videos about Kava including him traveling to Kava farms and drinking it.
And for what? A cold ass burger that’s super small and tastes different?