[Svartalfiar]

1. Retail salespersons
2. Cashiers
3. Food prep and serving staff
6. Waiters and waitresses

All jobs that are usually seen as high-school/part-time college jobs that aren't expected to make much per year.


4. General office clerk
7. Customer service reps
8. Laborers, and freight and materials movers
9. Secretaries and admins
10. Janitors and cleaners

All jobs that require minimal education (8th grade, maybe HS degree). Only number 8 might have actual hard manual labor involved. When it's a job any monkey could do, lots of competition means lower wages.


The only one on the list that makes quite a bit (RN at $70k) also happens to be the only one that requires a smart person who's completed a 4-year degree, and obtained several certifications. It's also the only one that has a major direct impact on the health and well-being of it's 'customers'.

[xzins]

However, manufacturing jobs are also jobs that “monkeys can do”, but the middle class, post WWII, was built on those jobs. They enabled one bread winner to work, the other adult to raise the kids, the family to have a house, a car, food, and clothing....with a little bit of recreation.

35,000 a year won’t do all that.