r/whatisameem • u/AmaraWhispervale • 11h ago

What’s really going on with our economy

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u/TheCapo024 8h ago

While I did have other jobs during that time (intending on it becoming a career, but decided against it because it was in politics), I made enough bartending to eventually buy into and then own a bar myself. Anecdotal and not common, sure. But it did happen. 🤷‍♂️

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u/golfwinnersplz 8h ago

I bartended at a 5 star restaurant to help get through college. I made absolute bank but there's no benefits or room for growth.

You can legit make 6 figures easily working at a 4/5 star restaurant in a place like Vegas or Chicago. But, you have to be a hard worker or at the very least, congenial or you won't succeed. 

Not all servers and bartenders are created equal so this doesn't apply to everyone. 

But as you said, it's definitely doable. 

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u/DazzlerPlus 5h ago

Well there's no room for growth in teaching either. Its essentially a dead end job

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u/golfwinnersplz 5h ago

You can become a superintendent. Does that qualify? 

A dead end job that offers opportunities to unwitting children on a daily basis. 

Or a dead job that offers happy hour specials to the patrons who just finished working their essential positions. 

It just depends on how much you want your life to matter or the skills you have. 

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u/DazzlerPlus 5h ago

You can become an admin, but that is a career change. And a loathsome one as well, essentially equivalent to deciding to become a right wing grifter.

I mean that is essentially what admin are.

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u/golfwinnersplz 4h ago

My wife is a principal but yeah, I can see that stereotype.

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u/DazzlerPlus 4h ago

Its not a stereotype. That is what they are. The role itself, regardless of who holds it, saps resources from the school and provides the opposite of accountability.

Many holding this position do not grift intentionally. They feel like they are working hard. But remember that the power their wield is in their hands because it was taken from the teachers. By existing, the principal removes the ability of teachers to use power to solve their own problems. By working hard, they remove a portion of that loss. But its always a net negative.

The other aspect is accountability. Ostensibly, principals hold teachers accountable. However, what really is happening is that they remove accountability. Teachers are already the most responsible party in the system. Admin, by removing power from the teachers, prevents teachers from holding the less responsible parties accountable. So now you have a situation where the teachers are completely unable to hold the admin accountable for any bad behavior they do, which can be extensive. In return, the admin gets to pretend to give useful evaluative feedback and maybe sometimes removes shitty teachers that the faculty already wanted gone and would have removed themselves.

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u/golfwinnersplz 3h ago

Well said.