Routine Jobs

For those of you who haven’t heard of the comedian 2 the Ranting Gryphon, open Google right now. Navigate to his skit “Do your F***ing Job!” I’ll wait.

With this country in a recession, the public is constantly bombarded with alarming headlines stating the drastic loss of jobs. In such a situation, more and more qualified individuals find themselves performing medial tasks for minimum wage while smashing their brains against the wall. College students will look around them and ask ‘What’s the point?” Nothing can do more to dissipate the faith of a nation then announce a recession. The cash flow stops. Small businesses dry up and close shop. Gradually even the corporate and routine jobs seem to dwindle and disappear. How can this be solved? Ignore the recession. We only dig ourselves in deeper by hoarding money from our neighbors. I’m not saying you should spend your entire 401(k) on frivolous items, but instead go ahead and buy that new couch you were saving for anyways. People are afraid and needed to be goaded out of their shells. As they gradually regain their footing and return to this society’s consumerist ideals, the economy will stabilize, and gradually begin an upwards trend.
That said, we all have and probably all will perform some form of routine job. This is the general way for teenagers to enter the workplace with their first jobs. Standard places may include low-level jobs at a grocery, department store, or restaurant. I chose the restaurant route at seventeen and became a minimum wage worker at a family owned Cantonese place. The strange thing about this restaurant is that there was no set hierarchy among the low wage workers, so the general job title for the front- end was “carry out” and it was sup to the individual employees to remember who had seniority.