Topic > The Intelligence of Low Wage Jobs by Barbara Ehrenreich...

Note that most of the available jobs are in the "hospitality industry". She sets 2 rules for herself. One cannot use any of her skills from her education or usual job and two she had to take the best paid job she was offered and keep it. Then he goes out, fills out the applications, and, to his amusement, the process of getting a job is just as grueling as finding a place to live. Even in a supermarket he applied for a fifteen minute computer interview and the interview is multiple choice and apparently the funniest question in the interview is "are you an honest person?" Days pass and none of the 20 places call her for a personal interview. He discovered that finding a job is just a matter of being in the right place at the right time. She eventually finds work at a "family restaurant", taking a waitress position at the Hearth Side restaurant. His colleague Gail, a middle-aged woman, trained Ehrenreich for the next eight