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Old 06-28-2014, 06:47 PM
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A few years ago I had a position with a golf retailer. We had a kid who ran the shoe department. When I say ran the department, he basically kept it clean, stocked the shelves and help customers. H had pretty fair knowledge of golf shoes.
he had graduated college about a year before I knew him and this was the only job he could find. He has a two hour rise to work each way and I believe that he was paid about $9.00 an hour plus a few commissions. He was always complaining that he couldn't find a job in his field of study which was sports journalism.
One day he told me that he had over $80,000 in college loans that he was paying off. I asked him why he didn't get a job where he could make more money so he could get his loans paid off sooner. He said that he applied every where but none of the radio or television stations were hiring broadcasters for major league sports and he didn't want to take something that was not in his field. I told him that I knew a guy in the area close to his home that had a construction business. He was hiring unskilled laborers at $25.00 per hour. His response was, "I'm not going to do construction. I'm a college graduate".
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