Temporary Jobs Became Permanent Careers

Added: 2026-05-30

[00:00:00]All right, so yesterday on my way home from work, I stopped into the Kroger's and it's been a long time since I bought generic soda, right?

[00:00:11]And I bought RC Cola and I can't remember the last time I actually bought RC Cola.

[00:00:17]And the reason was it was pretty much half the cost of um what the name brand Coke or Pepsi cost.

[00:00:27]And this is for a 2-liter bottle.

[00:00:30]And the smaller bottle, right? I think it's the 1-liter bottle of Coke is now cost what the 2-liter bottle used to cost.

[00:00:40]And so when you're looking at this and then you think about how much of our lives have have changed in the last five years.

[00:00:51]And yesterday I got a comment from a guy that said that he was living in a motel room, which I've heard for years is becoming normalized because when you get an eviction, that means you can't rent an apartment anymore.

[00:01:05]It means that uh you're not uh reliable, um that you've lost your um your chance at living a normal life.

[00:01:17]Because if you can't rent a an apartment, you're stuck renting rooms in someone's house or living in a motel or worse yet, living in your car or on the street.

[00:01:29]Even though you may have money, they these landlords have adapted this idea that hey, if you have that stain on your record, we're not going to touch you.

[00:01:41]And kind of on the same level, when I see people on TikTok complaining that their starter home is costing them between three and five thousand dollars a month, you ask yourself, there are people who are stuck at all kinds of different levels. We become a society a society of temporary or semi permanent everything, whether it's your job, your relationship, everything has become semi permanent or temporary.

[00:02:15]You guys tell me in the comments all the time about how you start a job and it's not an ideal job, right? It's uh it's a job like working in a Dollar Tree or working in retail in some aspect, but you do realize at the core of it that it is a temporary job. In fact, yesterday I was talking to one of the senior guys at work and he was telling me that with what he gets paid, he can't afford to live anymore and his kids that are in college are already making more money than he is in unskilled labor.

[00:02:59]You're talking about kids in their 20s, very early 20s, and they're already making as much as their dad because we've gotten to this point in our society where you can make 20 bucks flipping burgers or you can make 20 bucks an hours sitting in an office doing office work.

[00:03:19]And again, what I don't understand about this is how we're just letting it happen.

[00:03:27]We're allowing bad lives to be normalized.

[00:03:32]And >> [clears throat] >> in this world where even education doesn't mean anything.

[00:03:38]Yesterday I was scrolling through my phone cuz I was bored and I ran into this article from I think this is the New York Times. It was something New York New York Post, New York Times, New York something.

[00:03:49]And I was reading through it and they were talking about how employers are looking down on people with advanced degrees because these people are going to come into the workplace. First of all, they're going to want more money.

[00:04:04]They're going to feel like their education means something so they're going to feel more entitled at work and want better treatment whether that's more benefits, more time off, more work-life balance uh working on their own schedule, working remote.

[00:04:23]It's really difficult to deal with people who don't want to be in the office. People who feel like they should only come into the office once a week or not at all.

[00:04:34]Because when you think about having to come into the office that always adds two more hours to your work day that you don't get paid for.

[00:04:43]Whether it's getting ready and then driving to work or it's having to drive home in rush hour traffic which is a nightmare.

[00:04:53]You would only do that if you absolutely needed the job. But for anyone who doesn't absolutely have to work and very young people who can live with their parents because their parents are either retired or semi-retired where they have passive income but they're not actually going into a job but they're they're set, right? You know, you're talking about people boomers.

[00:05:21]And there's an other interesting and I use the word interesting very very very carefully.

[00:05:28]There was a video that I saw yesterday that was it was a joke, right? I think it was a Tik Tok and the guy's like, you know what? The way to make um the people who created the system uncomfortable is to not occupy Wall Street but occupy the boomers' houses. Whether it's your parents or your parents' parents.

[00:05:50]Try moving back in with them and see uh how they feel about it. Because these are the same people that tell you to buy a house, buy a car, get a better job, or work more than one job. These people are always telling you how easy it is in order to get ahead.

[00:06:09]And if you're like me, you know you'll you'll never own a home.

[00:06:14]Um because the job economy right now is pushing people into low-income jobs permanently. And that's the sad part is we used to think that temporary jobs were the low-level jobs. Now the low-level jobs are becoming permanent.

[00:06:33]And I know this for a fact because that's been my entire life.

[00:06:38]You know, someone yesterday in the comments said that, "Oh, you know, one week you're working at McDonald's, the next week you're working at Taco Bell, and and next week you're going to be working at Wendy's."

[00:06:49]I can't talk about my work here.

[00:06:51]>> [laughter] >> That's why I work in fast food on this channel. Because all the jobs are the same, regardless of whether you work in an office, whether you're working construction, you're picking fruit, or just scratching your rear end on the couch right now. There isn't much difference out there between the good job and the job that you have access to.

[00:07:15]Many companies realize that regardless of how crummy the pay is or how much the job sucks because it's it's not going anywhere. And And that's something that I've told people for many years. If you're not learning any special skills at a job, if the job isn't teaching you how to get a better job, you're wasting your time.

[00:07:37]And it's become very unfortunate, but almost all companies don't want to do provide any training because if they provide training, what they're doing is they're setting up their employees to go somewhere else and make better money.

[00:07:53]How does that help the corporation if you're training your workers for better positions? Chances are even if they did offer you training, you're not going to stay there for very long once you've acquired a higher level skill set. Why would you stay at a minimum wage job when you've been trained on how to make $5 more an hour? For some people, $5 an hour more is like a game-changer for their lives.

[00:08:21]Like imagine right now if you're living in Arizona like I am and you're making $15.15, which is the minimum wage here.

[00:08:29]And suddenly you have just one special skill. Like let's say you can touch your nose and put your finger in your rear, right? And bam, special skill acquired. Now you qualify for $20 an hour.

[00:08:44]And are you not going to take that?

[00:08:48]Everyone is going is always trying to do better.

[00:08:53]That's the point. A very few of us give up and accept our circumstances.

[00:08:59]I mean, in community college I met this girl who still lives at home at age 42 in her same bedroom. And she worked at the Dollar Tree for around 10 years.

[00:09:12]And she just got used to it. She didn't have a lot of extra bills. She didn't have a whole lot of responsibility.

[00:09:19]She wasn't very [clears throat] attractive even though she really wanted to get married, but she was overweight, unattractive, and had the personality of a rock.

[00:09:31]Now you're talking about a triple whammy there. You have nothing to entice people into talking to you. And that's what's really, really difficult is sometimes you want something that you can't get. You're not attractive enough to attract the person that you're interested, therefore you're going to stay long-term single because you're not attractive. And the same thing can be said about most workers.

[00:10:02]They're not attractive to corporations.

[00:10:06]If you're If you just got out of school, let's say you just graduated last week from ASU and you have a liberal arts degree, any liberal arts degree, you have no special technical skills, you know how to use the computer basically, right? You're not a person that knows anything more advanced than opening up a web browser, checking your email, and that's it. You have basic computer skills and you have a college degree.

[00:10:37]Guess what? Most corporations are going to think you're qualified to be a burger flipper.

[00:10:43]And as a person who is there myself, remember, I got out of school. Before school, I was working in retail. Once I got out of school, I was working in retail to my shock.

[00:10:54]To me, getting out of college not being able to find any job has still boggles my mind that I'm still unemployed in every sense of the word.

[00:11:03]So, when I mention my work as being fast food, that's how I feel about all employment. So, don't take it seriously.

[00:11:14]All jobs suck.

[00:11:16]And nothing signifies work sucking than calling all jobs Taco Bell, right?

[00:11:22]Because in the future, all jobs are Taco Bell.

[00:11:26]And you know this as well as I do because if you watch this channel regularly, you have been dealt a terrible blow by life.

[00:11:38]You happen to be born into a world where your parents weren't rich.

[00:11:42]You don't have rich friends, and you don't see your outlook on life as being one that is positive.

[00:11:50]I don't see anything good happening to me at all. And the comment that stands out from yesterday's video is Jennifer C talking about seeing a person putting $50 into a lottery machine to buy one scratchers ticket, and then they don't win.

[00:12:10]That's life.

[00:12:11]You put in your hard-earned time and money into life, you pull the lever, and you don't win.

[00:12:19]And you keep pulling the lever because you Every day you go to work, you pull the lever.

[00:12:24]And every day you get a loser ticket that comes out.

[00:12:30]And every morning when you wake up and you sit on the side of your bed asking yourself, "How am I going to do this again when I know what happens every time I pull the lever?"

[00:12:39]Right now, my lizard's looking at me, and he ate the last of his crickets.

[00:12:43]There are no more crickets in this house for him to eat, and that's how the American people feel right now.

[00:12:50]There are no crickets left to eat. There are no good jobs for ordinary people.

[00:12:56]There is no career that's going to take off.

[00:13:00]There are nothing but different levels of losing.

[00:13:05]Sometimes you lose a little bit when you pull the lever of life in the morning, and sometimes you lose a lot. Sometimes you get to the point where you just can't do this job anymore, and you have to walk away.

[00:13:19]And yesterday I was telling one of my co-workers about um Mellow's walking away from her high-paying job because she just didn't see that it was worth it. He's like I completely understand the way that she felt.

[00:13:33]That's what he said to me and he's like I wish that I could be somewhere right now where I was getting paid the same amount of money, but at least I could do something that I liked, like planting a tree or cutting grass.

[00:13:47]When you look at a janitor and you look at their face and they're completely satisfied with what they're doing. They may not be earning top executive pay. They may not have luxurious items or go on fancy vacations, but they make enough money to cover their daily bills without worrying. They have job security. They have no stress.

[00:14:14]They don't have anything at work that has any meaning to them whatsoever, which is a trend that I've been seeing all around me in the last few years. All my my co-workers do the same thing.

[00:14:28]They come to work and they're completely tuned out.

[00:14:33]They don't come to work to bring anything, right? They don't put anything up in their offices. They have nothing in their office. So, if they get into a Zoom call in the next 5 minutes, they'll just walk out of the office.

[00:14:50]There's no need for a little white box.

[00:14:52]They don't have a plant. They don't have any any anything at their desk that's personalized. And that's something that people have looked at in my area and they just look it's like it doesn't look like anyone works here.

[00:15:06]I've had so many people tell me that over the past 10 years. It doesn't look like anyone works here. There's nothing here that shows that a human being sits here 8 hours a day.

[00:15:17]Not a personal cup.

[00:15:19]Not anything.

[00:15:22]Nothing at all to show. It just looks like it's an empty house, right? When you walk into a person's home and there is nothing personal there. And this is something I was talking to chat GPT about on my way home.

[00:15:39]Is that last year when I moved out of my um studio apartment, I had been living that same way my entire adult life till exactly 1 year ago.

[00:15:52]Exactly the same way.

[00:15:53]All I've had my entire life is some sort of uh sleeping pad on the floor and a toilet.

[00:16:04]I never bothered to invest in a bed because when you're living like that in one room, you never know when it that living situation is going to change. So, I never owned a desktop, I never owned a piece of furniture, I never owned a plant, I never had a pet. It was just me, my clothes, and that was it. The clothes that you can carry.

[00:16:31]That was my life for my entire life since I left my parents' house.

[00:16:37]Nothing, not a dresser, not a hanger. You just have what you can carry. And that's the way you live when you know that you don't have anything, no financial security, no security of any kind. You don't have any friends, you don't have any family, you have no connection to the world. All you do is show up at work, do whatever crummy task it is, and then go home and lay down on your bedding.

[00:17:07]I didn't own a TV.

[00:17:09]I had nothing but a laptop screen, and that was my That's how I lived.

[00:17:14]My And you're not talking about a couple of bad years. You're not talking about waiting to get a better job. You're talking about that's the permanent way that millions of Americans are going to spend their adult life that way.

[00:17:33]And it's a sad reality because you don't look forward to anything. Weekends are just time to go do something else for money. Something strange for money. You don't know what that is yet because you haven't reached that point where you're that you need money that bad. Where you know what you're doing is probably questionable, but you know what they say, crime pays.

[00:18:02]And it pays in cash.

[00:18:04]And that's why they're trying to get rid of cash because they don't want you to have any alternatives.

[00:18:10]They want you to go to your crummy job regardless of what it is and get paid through direct deposit. So you never really have to touch cash because cash is it's linked with all kinds of negative things, right? If If they can't track it, then they don't know.

[00:18:29]And that's why and this is what shocks me about it is that every time I'm in the Dollar Tree, there's very few if no one has an actual credit card, right?

[00:18:42]And most of the transactions are done with cash. And I know this because I had parents my entire adult or my entire childhood that I saw them as adults get paid in cash at work.

[00:18:57]And I never understood why.

[00:19:01]But they were always getting paid in cash and I was just like, well, that's strange because I don't think I've ever been paid in cash once in my my life. It's either been a company check or direct deposit.

[00:19:16]I've never been paid for any job in cash.

[00:19:20]And for most of you, if you stay legit, you won't either.

[00:19:25]Because >> [laughter] >> the jobs that pay in cash are always a little suspect.

[00:19:32]Anyhow, getting back, I got to end this video.

[00:19:37]As much as I'd like to keep talking, I have to get ready for Fleece. I got to put on my lipstick on my mouth and my lipstick around my rear because Fleece likes a little red around the rear kind of marketing market like a target, right? He wants you to put a um a crosshairs right on your rear end so he knows exactly where he's going. Not that I'm saying he doesn't know, but he likes a a little attention.

[00:20:05]So, while I get dolled up, while I put some lipstick on this pig, I hope you guys have a great day.

[00:20:12]I hope that somehow you pull your lever today and that you win at life.

[00:20:17]But if not, I'll see you right back here tomorrow.

[00:20:21]And um I hope you enjoy your Thursday.