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[quote=Anonymous][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]

NP and I worked in customer service positions (though not restaurants) in my teens and early 20s and that sh*t was so much harder than all the cushy corporate jobs I've had since.  I was a bank teller for a few years and my god I never want to do that job or anything like it again.  Not because it's beneath me but because it was so stressful.  I'd fall asleep at night thinking of the banking codes and have nightmares about messing up people's money.  Having someone come to my window and have me help them figure out how much money they could get access to and compare it to the bills they needed to pay and watching them try to figure out how they could keep their power on while also leaving them some cash for groceries would stick with me for days.

Now I'm working in a finance role for a consulting company and the numbers I'm dealing with on a daily basis are in the millions.  Yet it's nowhere near as stressful as dealing with the banking needs of someone with $50 to their name.  That teller job wasn't beneath me and isn't beneath me now but my god I hope I never have to go back to it.  [/quote]

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