"Cheryl" > wrote in message
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> On 5/19/2013 1:31 AM, sf wrote:
>> On Sat, 18 May 2013 23:04:10 -0400, Cheryl >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 5/18/2013 4:01 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>>
>>>> "Cheryl" > wrote in message
>>>> eb.com...
>>>
>>>>> Exactly. I don't know of anyone who waits tables just to meet minimum
>>>>> wage
>>>>> with salary + tips. It is usually much more than that in a decent
>>>>> place.
>>>>> I waited tables for a few years back in my younger days when salary
>>>>> was
>>>>> only about $2 or less per hour. Tips were the only way to make any
>>>>> money
>>>>> at all. Tips could equal even more than $200 per day on good days.
>>>>> Weekends even better.
>>>>
>>>> They do because they can't find another job.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I don't think that's true. If you find the right place the money can be
>>> very good. Plenty of people work their way through college waiting
>>> tables.
>>
>> Plenty of people make it a career. The restaurant takes care of them
>> and they're good at their job. I know lots of restaurants where I see
>> the same faces year after year, decade after decade.
>>
>
> True, and again nothing to do with Julie's statement that they do it
> because they can't find another job.

Again. That is *not* what I said. We were talking of low paying jobs. Or
I was anyway. Here, waiting tables is not a low paying job. This is what I
was referring to:

"Exactly. I don't know of anyone who waits tables just to meet minimum wage
with salary + tips."

You said that you don't know of anyone who does that. But some people do.
Not here. But they do in some places. And I gave the reason why.