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kleinbl00  ·  1591 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How I Get By: A Week in the Life of a McDonald’s Cashier

My privilege was realizing that

(A) I made it through college largely by having a lot of credit cards, which I got because I was at a decent college, which means I established a credit rating early and which means I used revolving credit to get through most stuff and

(B) I kept those credit cards from eating me alive by applying the sum total of my meager inheritance from my dead grandparents to them.





mk  ·  1591 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Another tragedy and humiliation here is that a diet rich in McDonalds is likely a factor in her diabetes.

Returning from Boston, I drove for Pizza Hut. It fed me. Fried pizza wears thin, but when $5 is meaningful, free fried pizza every day makes sense.

kleinbl00  ·  1591 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Another tragedy and humiliation here is that a diet rich in McDonalds is likely a factor in her diabetes.

Anyone spending four hours a day on a bus in order to make $9.50 an hour is not getting their veggies on the reg. There are some choices at McDonald's that aren't terrible but the poor lady is basically working 80 hours a week in order to get two part-time jobs.