Reply #5: I work in food service, and just about every coworker I've known

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who was born in this country had a college education. They were all cooks or servers or dishwashers because there was literally no other job available that called for their skills (not everybody wants to get an MBA, ya know - some of us have consciences) - or, alternatively, they had to hold down a food service job as "secondary" income because their "primary" job didn't pay them enough to live on.

I'm currently back in school now, hoping to complete my undergrad education while cooking at night. I'm under no illusion that my degree will help me get a better job; in fact, I'm prepared to cook the rest of my life, never getting ahead, never "pulling myself up by my bootstraps" (gag), with mountains of student loan debt over my head, barely coasting by...and really, isn't that the American Dream? :eyes:

Fiscal conservatives might do well to try to exist for six months as a night-time line cook in a restaurant. Seriously - just try it.