Positive unintended consequences... Thanks for your insightful comments - you’re right on this... you’ve found a part of the puzzle.
I knew wages weren’t the only reason people aren’t going back to their jobs because wages have been going up around here. Starting pay for burger flippers is $12-$15! I saw a sign at a Burger King offering a $1,500 sign on bonus!
I think many more families will revert to the traditional family model as the ones who have made the jump tell their friends and families how much happier they are. Step out of the rat race buddy and enjoy your family!
On the other end of things wages are rising. Good employers are taking care of their employees.
One of my sons got a $2.00/hr raise over three months to make his pay match the local economy. He wasn’t due a raise by company schedule but the company studied the local wage/cost of living numbers and raised the pay of every employee, even new hires. He operates a laser cutter at a conveyor builder.
He’s making $27/hour now.
My daughter, a pharmacy tech, changed jobs because she could make more, and be treated better, than she could at the hospital she worked at.
She went to work for a group of independent doctors who aren’t affiliated with the local hospital owned by Centra Health. These doctors are top shelf, head of the class doctors. If she has to work a weekend the doctors feed the entire staff. Sometimes its pizza, sometimes burgers or tacos/burritos, whatever and its an all you can eat affair!
Two months ago the outfit reached goals they had set for the year. Patients treated, new patients seen and other goals. They had one of the best BBQ places around set up in their back parking lot and fed the staff through two shifts, with take home containers allowed.