Reading Isn't For Everyone

                Reading is not one of my favorite things to do. When I was littler it wasn’t as bad but now I rarely enjoy it, and I have a hard time sitting still for that long and keeping my mind focused. When we are assigned to read for school I put it off for as long as I possibly can because I dread it. Every once in awhile I find a good book that I can’t stop reading until I finish, but that is rare for me.

                When I was little my mom used to read to me every night before bed. She would read books like Harry Potter, When You Give a Moose a Muffin, A Bad Case of the Stripes, Brown Bear Brown Bear, Tikki Tikki Tembo, Scooby Doo books, and Dr. Suess books. I really enjoyed that, maybe that’s because I didn’t have to do all the work. While I don’t like reading I do enjoy reading books to my nieces, but that could be because those are children’s books, short books for a short attention span.

                As I said before I will sometimes find a really good book that I can’t put down. Some of my friends who read a lot refer books to me that are pretty good. Some of the books that I love are Its Kind Of A Funny Story, Killing Britney, the Twilight series, Purpose for the Pain, The Diary of Anne Frank, and Sight. There are a couple books that I want to read that I am waiting to get from the library. Maybe I can still learn to like reading; it would be very good for me.

The Future Is a Scary Thing

“What do you want to be when you grow up?” such a simple question to a naïve child. Thinking back to when I was a child my answer to that question was instantaneous, a teacher. Now when asked that same question that came so simply before I find myself racking my brain for an answer, so many options, and so little clue. I honestly can’t even think of a general answer to that question. A lot of people have some kind of idea about what profession their like to go into, I however do not.

I work a minimum wage job at pick ‘n save and I have more than handful of coworkers over the age of forty that are still cashiers working for a little over minimum wage. One of my biggest fears in life is not being able to make enough to support the lifestyle I wish to have and that I’ll have to become a homeless person or be living out of my car.

 Coworkers of Barbara Ehrenreich in Nickel and Dimed may have not had the same opportunities as she had to go to college and the minimum wage jobs are all they are qualified to do. While no one wants to have to work a minimum wage job for the rest of their lives, try to imagine life without someone to do those “undesirable” jobs. While teens work a good portion of minimum wage jobs, there’s still a need for adults at these jobs. At my job I need my older coworkers to help me out to train me and help me when I don’t know what I’m doing. Just think about life without minimum wage workers for a minute, it’s almost impossible. There would be no one to clean hotels, serve you your meals at a restaurant, sell you alcohol, or provide public transportation. We need people to do those jobs.