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.