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Originally Posted by BlackCrayon
thats what i did too but the fact remains that society wouldn't work if everyone does this. society relies on there being a large number of people who are willing or have no choice but to work shit jobs for shit pay.
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After leaving the military, I worked a number of shitty, deadend jobs for a while - I only had my grade 12 at the time. Drove forklifts, loaded trucks, did shipping/receiving...a bunch of menial labour positions.
But at the same time, I kept looking for something better. I got in with a temp agency that sent me to a printing company that needed temporary help. I was working two jobs during that time. The printing company hired me full-time after 6 months - and I began learning the pre-press trade of film stripping, paste-up and design layout. Eventually I took over their camera/darkroom dept.
I subsequently left the company about two years later after receiving a better offer from a much larger, established company. For the next few years I continued learning new skills and processes and eventually was making $18/hr. by 1987 (pretty good wage for the time...all things considered).
But at age 25 I still wasn't satisfied - and decided to take a two-year, full-time college course in computer graphics and technical illustration (combined with photography, audio/video media production). During the college course, I was also hired part-time by the Director's Film Co. of Canada to shoot TV commercial casting calls. Another new skill set.
Shortly after graduating college - I actively pursued and scored a job at $26/hr. as the lead video editor (and duplicator) at the head office for Canada's largest adult video distributor.
A few years later I founded my own production company - and by 2003 we cleared six-figures for the first time.
Or...
I could have remained working those forklifts while bitching about the minimum wage I was earning and blaming the company for 'keeping me down'.
I have very little empathy for those people in minimum wage jobs who blame the corporations for their shitty position in life. I've known too many of them over the years who mistaken think longevity equals entitlement irregardless of their poor work ethic and skill sets.
Like the old saying goes - life is what you make it.
Been there/done that.