Minimum Wage Not Enough?

Todays lesson: If you want more money, better yourself. Because there are already way better people working a lot harder making a lot less.

Although I don't agree with the mediocracy remark. Let me just share some knowledge. Someone who is an E1 in the United States military makes ONLY $16,600 a year to work well over 40 hours a week and get deployed to god knows where for months at a time to defend our country and help many others. That's a little more than $7.25 an hour. But that's someone who just joined. Let's say someone has advanced a little bit, you know, gained some knowledge. An E3 starts at $19,300. That's still only just over $10 an hour if they work "40 hours a week" before taxes. But you show me a sailor that only works 40 hours a week. Mine doesn't. So to everyone complaining about not making enough while flipping your burgers and shaking the extra grease off the French fries, there are people getting paid the same as you risking their lives so that you can sit at home and complain about how YOU don't get paid enough. I don't know who these people are who think they deserve ridiculous amounts of money to work a dead end job. But I'm pretty sure they're not the people who have college degrees and just can't find a good job. I'm gonna bet they're the people who got complacent. The ones who, for some reason, feel entitled to things for absolutely no reason. And I don't think its because they were rewarded for being mediocre as a child. Its more likely because their parents never taught them to believe in themselves and be strong independent people. That they're able to better themselves, to have a strong worth ethic, self confidence and self respect. To TRY and take chances. Because THOSE are the things that actually get you places.. But I guess its just easier to just put Johnny on a losing t-ball team and tell him its his fault for not getting a trophy because he isn't good enough...instead of helping him practice. All while crushing his 5 year old dreams to be a pro baseball player. SO, he'll probably never even try.....