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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a waitress, so I'm pretty close to the bottom. There are no jobs beneath me. They would just break my back. Can't be dishwasher, the detergent eats into my skin already now. I cannot cook, cannot make desserts or salads. I clean a little at work, but to do it full time, I'd have to get in better shape that I am now.
Rich people never stopped eating out- that's how we survived the last recession. Some of us got 2nd jobs when people eat out less.[/quote]

I worked in restaurants in my twenties - considered myself a free spirit but was just aimless. My parents, typical type A Washingtonians, were horrified. They'd talk up any side thing I'd have going on with their friends and were SO relieved when I finally got a "real job."

Most people on this board consider restaurant and service work beneath them, I'm sure. It's hilarious because working with the public in the capacity I did took so much grace under pressure, ability to constantly multitask (for hours on end), and actually required a great deal of education and knowledge (about food and wine) that I was expected to constantly update.

I knock off so much in my professional life now, and most people I work with are both lazy and entitled. The irony.[/quote]

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