menial work

United States
February 18, 2009 8:14pm CST
Imagine that, even though you have a college diploma, and you couldn't find a work. Would you consider to work at a chicken plant. It was just a vivid example, would you mind to have a menial job temporarily? Majority of people would say "No", because of losing face. But you still need to make a living, and pay your bills. What do you think?
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@lynnemg (4529)
• United States
19 Feb 09
My opinion is that it is better to have a lower-paying job than no job at all. I think that it takes a bigger person to take a menial job than to hold out for the perfect job. I would take a menial job and use it as a stepping stone to reach my goals. The bills won't stop coming, I would have to do something to take care of my family.
• United States
19 Feb 09
Actually, you are the great one who can endure any condition. Way to go.
@1fastcat (80)
• United States
23 Feb 09
Well, the PhD is one thing, but a bachelor's degree these days is really nothing special at all. It is about what having a high school diploma used to be. A bachelor's degree diploma can be used to start a fire to keep yourself warm on a cold night if you can't pay your heating bill. If I had to do it over again, I would have gone for a graduate degree soon after college. Trying to go back now and work full time doesn't sound very pleasant. But I guess that's the choice we get in life - if you want to get ahead and be more successful you need to go the extra step and do the thing the next person isn't willing to do.
• United States
19 Feb 09
i say no im goin all the way through colledge to the phD degree if i have to do a menial job after that i will kill myself