And it made you a billionaire...until yesterday.
No - I wasn't picking berries when I was 13 before child labor laws precluded that. That quote is from a US Congressman who wants to end free school lunches.
For what it's worth, I actually worked in the school lunch line serving slop when I was in junior high, and got a free lunch for that. Wasn't because I needed to in order to afford lunch, my parents could definitely afford to buy me lunch. And it wasn't because I was being industrious. My buddy was doing it, so I decided to do it, and it was "cool! - free lunch!"
Mowed lawns, etc...
Frankly I don't think I really "learned" anything from that, just have anecdotes to tell. My current situation is 0% due to working in the lunch line, or at Subway at 4th and Green at UIUC, or Follets. It's from studying my ass off to get into UIUC and at UIUC and in grad school at UIUC, and during my career.
My Junior year I was working at IUB. Before finals, they asked us to give a schedule of when we could work that week. I gave them a schedule that was marked open at any time during the week other than when I had an actual final or the hour before or after that final. The manager then scheduled me for every slot marked open - which was a 40 hour week at IUB the week of finals.
I toughed it out until I had a study session until 4 AM for EE 340, and said fuck this, I'm not going in to work from 8-12 and then go to a 1 PM final. I went to bed, got up at 11 AM, had a nice lunch, and went and aced the final. I went to IUB and got fired. The manager said "you can't just do that in the real world" and I said "I'm glad you realize that this isn't the real world - scheduling me for 40 hours during finals - no way. This is beer money, these finals are mortgage money"
In retrospect I should have protested immediately when the schedule came out, or set an alarm and just called in sick. But I was just so pissed.
What's the point here? These douchebags want poor kids to go work at McDonalds instead of studying because they don't want them competing with their rich children for jobs in the "real world". Really poor kids, those cheap ass free lunches are probably the best nutrition they get. Not to mention that in a lot of those areas - ain't no McDonalds, and there sure as hell aren't berry farms, lawns to mow, or paper routes.
RecentNo New Wars! Well, maybe ... by Reacher
TRANSFER PORTAL 2026 by ILLINICHIEF
WTF happened to the WTF h... by Judge Judy
WTF is up with this Clown... by illiniray
Total Members: 142