In 2022, 31-year-old Maggie Perkins quit her eight-year teaching job and got a job at Costco. She doesn’t regret the decision, and she’s never been happier. Here’s a look at a day in the life working at Costco.

  • errer@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    While I agree with the sentiment, my wife was a teacher for over a decade and the workload is insane. Easily 60+ hour weeks. At some point she burned out and took a normal job that pays better and works her less. She wishes teaching wasn’t such an insane profession but it is so…capitalism it is.

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      1 year ago

      However, there is a high probability that your wife has trained more than a hundred people who have important roles in society today. That’s worth more than a rich wage and it makes sense to society. If we all wanted to make $60k from cosco we’d be living in the movie idiocracy.

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          But that makes things better for us average poors. Our plutocratic overlords would never allow such nonsense.