[Mpls] At the Bell Auditorium: Waging A Living

[Bill Cullen]

Becca et al,

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I hope LIVING A WAGE does a better job than the book Nickel and Dimed.   =
I
read that book a few years back trying to understand one question:  Why =
do
people get stuck in jobs that pay so poorly?

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I found the book to be wonderfully written; I laughed out loud multiple
times.  However, the book did not answer my question.  In fact, the =
writer,
Barbara Ehrenreich came to the twin cities for the final segment of the
book.  She was offered jobs at both Walmart and Menards.  She choose =
Walmart
over Menards even though Menards offered $11/hr compared to Walmart=92s =
$7/hr.

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At that point in the book, I was confused.  Why take a lower paying job? =
 I
understand taking a lower paying job if there is something wrong with =
the
high paying job, but Menards versus Walmart?

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I found out later that one of my tenants is a nephew of Barbara =
Ehrenreich.
I asked him to find out why she did not take the Menards job.  She told =
me
(through my tenant) that she did not know, nor want to learn, plumbing.  =
The
Walmart job was a stocking job Barbara felt comfortable doing.

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That is my issue.  All good paying jobs I know challenge the mind, the =
body
or both.  I struggle to sympathize with people that refuse the =
challenge.

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Does LIVING A WAGE entertain us about the difficulties of living poor =
(which
I think are obvious) or help us understand why people get stuck in low
paying jobs?

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Regards, Bill Cullen

Whittier Landlord


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