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I'll tell you what, my first actual jobby job was managing a number of printers, plotters, copiers and PCs at 2 locations. At 16.

I was paid twice the average wage. It taught me making money is easy.

2 years later I was earning 10x the average wage doing affiliate marketing in a country where few even heard of it. Money was no issue. Spent it all, there's always more, right? 2008 was a very rude awakening and to be honest I've never recovered from that.

Wish I could've worked at some factory first.

> McDonalds DID make for an awesome starting job, in my experience. I worked there as a teen and had a host of positive life experiences in that first role.

What year did you work there as a teen, if I may ask?

Agreed, I wonder what kind of entry level job the parent poster had. Maybe none.

The difference was you knew you would never be there too long.

It was a transitory job.

Now, it a career for many people.

It's only a career if you make it a career.

There's plenty of jobs and ways to move up in the world, if people are unwilling to make the sacrifices needed to take those opportunities that's on them and them alone.

Higher and higher pushes for min wage has been decreasing the number of available transitory jobs as well, thus likely hurting more people than it helps.