Just something I noticed in my life anyway. My first job was back of house staff in a chain restaurant for federal minimum of $7.25/hr, a.k.a “if we could legally pay you less, we would”. Currently (ten years later) I’m managing a coffee shop for $40K yearly plus bonuses. Every job I’ve had since then (with one exception) has been a huge pay increase from the one before and has ALWAYS also been an easier job. Even though I have a lot more responsibility, this is the least stressful job I’ve had, and the only full time one where I’m not expected to work past 40 hours without some kind of extreme reason.
The one exception was when I left a manufacturing job to work for FedEx because they were offering $3/hr more than what I was making at the time but after two weeks I couldn’t handle the mental and physical toll it was taking on me.
So I guess my point is I’m noticing a correlation that the jobs where employers are doing nothing to make it more efficient for their employees are usually the ones paying as little as they can get away with.
Anyone else have the same experience or completely different? I do know some people that had to accept pay cuts just to have jobs that didn’t make them want to jump into traffic