Your significant other is perfectly content with their minimum wage job and ... (See details...) ( Archived) (19)

So now we are complaining about someone who is working?! Wow!

Yeah, at least they are working. There are a lot of people who aren't.

Number 1 at least they have a job and number 2 if it makes them happy what's the problem

As long as they're working and I have a job we're both set.:)

The minimum wage in Florida just increased from seven dollars and thirty-one cents to seven dollars and sixty-seven cents an hour January of this year 2012. Which considering here, no....you cannot live off of it. Just the house rent in this area for a modest home runs around a thousand a month. We are talking two bedroom. Electric depending on where you live in the county varies. One hundred and thirty-four and up. I pay in my area four to five hundred a month on electric. Depending on time of year. To me this is two things I prefer not to give up. A roof over my head and lights. I do so like a warm shower. So lets see if I am making minimum wage here by the time you take out taxes and health insurance I am bringing home a smidgen over two hundred dollars is how I see it. Which means roughly eight hundred a month. I see a problem already. I haven't even got food in my belly yet. So if you are making minimum wage in my area then you most likely are on some kind of government assistance. Sad you are not even paid enough to live off of here.


Now the question. It actually depend on a lot of things on how I would feel about it. Are we able to make our cost of living? Do we have to go on government assistance and have others foot our bills because of this? Is this the only work that he or she can get? Are we happy? Is it one minimum wage paying job or do they have two minimum wage paying jobs?

Before my husband passed away he was laid off from his job of many years. Laid off for a year and a half before he got sick. It was difficult for him to find work. Our area was one of the hardest hit when the economy tanked. And when he applied for work he was cast away due to he was over qualified and some though it is illegal here I felt was age related. I watched the man I love so much even apply for a position as a cart pusher at a store and be turned down. He was so sad. I on the other hand found it more difficult and when my hours were cut back I dumbed down my application and got a job doing the kind of work I had never done and thought at first would surely kill me it was so hard physically. Even young men found it was to much for them. I think it bothered my husband more than me. I watched everything we had work for through out the years go. It was just material stuff. what was not material was watching the toll it took on my husband. We watched our friends around us going through the same thing. Many breaking up and going their separate ways. One night I looked at my husband and thought I would share one of the secrets of love. It is easy to love someone when things are going good. But it is when things are going bad and you still love one another that makes the love strong. We had a strong love. I still feel when he died it was really from a broken heart. He expected more from himself than I expected from him. So see my answer is not a black and white answer. It depends on alot of things. Most of all how much do you mean to me. And if you were my significant other I would like to think you mean the world to me. But I have been on this site long enough to know not all relationships have the story book ending. It takes two working towards a good relationship in life to keep love alive. and the work I am talking about really has little to do with money. If you read this all the way through. Thank you.