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I worked in strawberry fields during summer months at about 12 years old or younger. I actually enjoyed it and loved the money I made to be able to buy some Nin
by werdnapk 4y ago
I worked in strawberry fields during summer months at about 12 years old or younger. I actually enjoyed it and loved the money I made to be able to buy some Nintendo games or candies. More kids should be learning some job skills early and get out of the house.
- sneak 4y agoDoing manual labor in a field isn't "learning some job skills".
- nradov 4y agoJob skills include showing up on time and following directions without mouthing off. Those skills must be learned, they aren't instinctual. Middle class people take those skills for granted but some members of the persistent underclass who grew up on public assistance literally never learned those basics and are now essentially unemployable.
- dbspin 4y agoHobby work for luxuries isn't comparable to full time work for survival. Did you read the article? Did you "wake up at 4AM?" to pick strawberries? Did you work "a full adult schedule"? Were you working in 90 degree heat? Did you have "this sense that working in those fields was going to be the rest of my life, that I had nothing else going for me." Did you have "trouble getting the money [you were] owed for [your] labor." Did you experience nicotine poisoning? It's like comparing a home woodshop to a factory job.