7 Days @ Minimum Wage: Erin (Day 2)

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7 Days @ Minimum Wage brings you 7 real people with 7 real stories of living on the minimum wage, hosted by Roseanne Barr and sponsored by the AFL-CIO and ACORN. On Day 2, Erin talks about needing to work increasing hours at her minimum wage, grocery store job to make ends meet.

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You did it. If it ... ( 1 year ago by Beamshipcaptain)

You did it. If it is so do able, then you or someone should sho people how it is done, then there will be no more poverty in America, and everyone can afford to pay bills, motgages, gasoline, HEALTCARE, and the economy goes even higher, with all that wearlth, and people able to BUY! But no, that would be too civilised...

everything is do ... ( 1 year ago by watchtheskies)

everything is do able you just need to Try Harder

No more homilies. ... ( 1 year ago by Beamshipcaptain)

No more homilies. No more bullshit. I repeat: specifically: HOW?!
No more pollyany "try harder" nonesense. You are exactly whaat is wrong with this country. If you are not part of the soultion, you are part of the problem, buddy.

Try Harder is not ... ( 1 year ago by watchtheskies)

Try Harder is not nonsense! it's the key, think about it this way, even a kid from a seriously deprived background can become a great success, but guess what? it will be the kid that makes the effort and works hard that will win the scholarship, this lesson applies to all aspects of our lives at any age. you seem angry , I'm not entirely sure why, maybe you want things to be easy, well nothing worthwhile is ever easy, but it is worthwhile

I realise you want ... ( 1 year ago by watchtheskies)

I realise you want me to tell you how to do it, this is an impossible task because what worked for me will probably not work for anyone else, and what is the key for you will not work for me or anyone else,

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Nothing is easy. ... ( 1 year ago by Beamshipcaptain)

Nothing is easy. Just living is hard. I repeat, no more homiles like "try harder". I need specifics, and a course of action! A template to follow. You can try harder, and get nowhere, without a roadmap, you just go in circles.

I'll try to be ... ( 1 year ago by watchtheskies)

I'll try to be absolutely clear and I want you to understand this so here we go: There is no template, every situation is so different its impossible to have a template for success, If I were to write down specifically what I did over the 5 years of long hard slog it took to make my business work it would be a 5000 page book, and it would not be of much use to you because it would be full of incremental changes and adjustments to deal with the eventualities of that particular time.

Ah so. Suffice it ... ( 1 year ago by Beamshipcaptain)

Ah so. Suffice it to say, hard work and belief in yourself, and doing the right things FOR YOU, will eventually yield success, big-time. I would agree with that. We create our own reality. If you want a fun-life of abundance, you must change your belief-system accordingly, and act accordingly. We are in accord. However, most people have weak minds, and feeble-spirit. THAT is the REAL problem.

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I got another order for my business today over the phone, so you are right. I need to do more advertising and web-stuff. OK. We are in accord.

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I stand corrected, ... ( 1 year ago by Beamshipcaptain)

I stand corrected, watch the skies, I am wrong, and you are quite correct. Try harder WORKS. If I had'nt tried harder, when people said, "If this was real, we'd have seen it YEARS AGO". Well it IS real, I proved it, and now it has been all the rage since 2001, but I did it with 2-and 3-foot heavy-sheet metal saucers, with highr-power-levels, back in the 1990s. Right, believe in the impossible, research, do practical experiment, and you can make wonders happen. I am living proof! Bless you!

if your earning ... ( 1 year ago by helmetsuck)

if your earning minimum wage and HAVE A FAMILY..look in the damn mirror...stop having kids you cant afford. just maybe instead of doing nothing with your life, you could have studied in school learning a trade..
hell you can make more money mowing lawns in the neighborhood...lazy ass's

McDonalds drive-up ... ( 1 year ago by helmetsuck)

McDonalds drive-up just tonight, min. wage 35 yr old screwed by not giving me my fries that i paid for...
some people, some jobs are not worth more than $5 an hour.....especially when they cant even do that job...

k so its immoral ... ( 11 months ago by melish)

k so its immoral expect workers to raise a family on minimum wage,then it must be immoral to expect high school students to finish high school

the usa is def. not ... ( 11 months ago by xjaronx)

the usa is def. not the richest country in the world.

We are not, but our ... ( 10 months ago by hypervexbliss)

We are not, but our standards of living (for the bottom income brackets) are WAY lower than those for countries that ranked below us.

anything unskilled ... ( 7 months ago by paulleeks1966)

anything unskilled is low paid...thats the way it goes!
Money is EVERYTHING I'd rather be dead than have a soul destroying job that pays minimum wage!! I know people to end up suicidal because of it!!

the happiest people ... ( 7 months ago by paulleeks1966)

the happiest people I know have good paying jobs,the unhappiest people I know have got nowhere...they just exist and may as well be dead!!
as 4 me I'm happy because I have GOALS!!

Stop crying and get ... ( 7 months ago by ronaldec7)

Stop crying and get some focus in your life.
I have two kids and a mortgage.
I work two jobs, TWO and I may go to a third.
My second job deals with the min wage and tips. On adverage I get $15 an hour from that second job. Why, Why can't you do that. What makes me differant from you? I struggle just like you. The government will tax you more with a increase. They have already raided the Social Sercurity trust fund and need more money, so lets raise the wage and get more tax money.

To all those that ... ( 5 months ago by Chrisbaker525)

To all those that say that the minimum wage will decrease jobs they are wrong in 1968 the purchasing power of the minimum wage was $9.50 an hour unemployement was at was one of the lowest in history at 3.5%. We need the minimum at $10 an hour to increase purchasing power.

si that rossanne ( 4 months ago by spicypr24)

si that rossanne

Please go to school ... ( 2 months ago by compgrad1)

Please go to school if you can. I wish I had earlier but I'm going to go past my associate's degree and make it. I don't want to be rich, but to reach in my pocket and find the money there.

I'm going to sound ... ( 4 days ago by Kayleigh48913)

I'm going to sound like everyone else on here but whatever. I've lived on my own since I was 17 and have made hardly anything. Maybe a little more than minimum wage but not much and I have stayed alive and well. It's not impossible. You aren't paying for rent, electricity or any cost that you're required to pay while living on your own. You live with your parents. You have food to pay for and that's it. I wish I had it that easy, I would be going to school and not wasting my life.

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