Posts Tagged minimum wage
The Insult that is Minimum Wage
Posted by Thom in Business, Work Experiences on 2009/05/26
social_prefix = ”; social_title = ‘The Insult that is Minimum Wage’; social_url = ‘http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/05/26/the-insult-that-is-minimum-wage/’; As the old joke goes “Minimum Wage means that if they could pay you less, they would”. Ba-Da-Bing! A truer statement hasn’t been spoken about pay. I’ve worked my share of jobs for minimum wage – construction laborer, dishwasher, waiter and [...]
Digging Holes and other memories
Posted by Thom in Work Experiences on 2009/03/22
My very first W-2 paying job was as a construction laborer for a small family construction company one very hot Virginia summer. The job, given my relative lack of skills, was doing whatever I was told to do – usually it meant picking up scraps and trash, moving dirt and cement in wheelbarrows, carrying shingles up [...]
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