Television WAS a part of us

I am going to be completely honest: I think television has really become outdated so far and that hardly anyone watches TV anymore. We are moving it up in technology, and a television set has just become obsolete since we now have the internet and mobile phones. Don't get me wrong; I still watch TV shows...just not on an actual television. I do admit though that I watched TV when I was a child though.

As a child, I remember my days watching TV while waiting for the school bus. I watched PBS shows like Arthur or Dragon Tales, and in a big way has influenced my morals. As I got a little older, I began watching on Cartoon Network, Disney Channel, and Nickelodeon which mainly consisted of cartoons. Basically I only used the TV for watching cartoon shows, and to this day, I still watch them. The only difference was that I didn't use the television set anymore, and instead used the internet to. I now can watch cartoons like Rick and Morty and Steven Universe anytime I want. My parents only use the television set for watching TV dramas like Walking Dead and quite frankly, I think they only watch it for the suspense and excitement.

Even though TV has gone down lately, I think we can agree that TV does touches us in some ways. TV has different genres that can make us think as explained by Steven Johnson in Watching TV Makes You Smarter. I think the only reason though why we even watch TV shows is because we feel we're being apart of the fictional world of TV.  Robert Kubey and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Do forgive me if I mispell that last name) does question in Television Addiction is No Mere Metaphor if we use TV as a way to escape our dull lives. I think it would be cool to feel, even for just a moment, how it would be like traveling through parallel universes or fighting gems.

Minimum Wage - Fast food or Retail?

Young adults usually want to find in a first-time job something enjoyable or refreshing that they can use as their work experience. Unfortunately, it’s not that easy and most first work experiences end up being either working in fast-food or in retail. Most young adults even try to find decent ones and do their best to avoid going to fast food work. Why?

My brother was not the brightest in college, and my parents ordered him to go find a job since he literally owed them lots of money for wasting it on courses he failed at. A man with no experience was not an easy find, so the first job he went for was at Burger Kings. It was definitely not a pleasant experience as he had to go through obnoxious customers, unsanitary messes, and greasy cook ware. I even noticed my brother’s behavior changed into a grumpy person who would complain about every small detail. I could even vouche that looking for the retail parts of a job wasn’t easy either. I tried looking for a summer job in retail sending many applications but not a single one replied back to me personally. Others were computer-based ones that sent an assessment test that only looked for a perfect worker which I could say that the test was long and illogical.

Eric Schlosser’s “Behind the Counter” showed that the fast food place was much work that were supposed to teach essential skills for real work places, but I feel that education could teach exactly the same concept. The world of retail, as described by Barbara Ehrenreich in “Selling in Minnesota”, is like a slave-working state where if you standed against retail, there would be consequences. Frankly, I think there should be better minimum-wage jobs that were in different areas.