“It’s really not that difficult to hold down a good job in this country.”
That depends if you have some marketable skill or not. I’m an engineer at a factory where the unskilled machine operators make $28/hr with benefits. We are going through a serious slowdown and those unskilled people (who literally lucked into their jobs) are going to be hurting when laid off and all they are qualified at doing is unskilled labor.
“That depends if you have some marketable skill or not.”
A friend told me the other day that 5 year employes of Costco gets 20 an hour...