Nickel and Dimed - Ehrenreich
The excerpt from Nickel and Dimed was when Ehrenreich was in Key West, Florida. The whole point is that she is trying to see if she can get by with low wage jobs and make it through the month. In Florida she gets a waitressing job that pays below minimum wage. For her home she rents a trailer but her money from waitressing isn't cutting it so she has to pick up a second job as a hotel maid. But then it's too much to handle because she's on her feet nonstop and works so much when the money isn't even good. She's gets way too over-exhausted so she quits her second job right away because she knows she can't do it and then she ends up quitting the waitressing job too before she's even been there for a whole month. She got really close to the other waitresses she met while doing this and learned about their lives too and how it's a real everyday struggle for them and they have no other money to fall back on like her. Many couldn't make enough for first and lasts rent so they would live out of their cars and stuff. It was sad because it was like a vicious cycle working their butts off just to get by and doing it over and over again never getting the chance to even save to ever become comfortable because it's all about just getting by.
The excerpt from Nickel and Dimed was when Ehrenreich was in Key West, Florida. The whole point is that she is trying to see if she can get by with low wage jobs and make it through the month. In Florida she gets a waitressing job that pays below minimum wage. For her home she rents a trailer but her money from waitressing isn't cutting it so she has to pick up a second job as a hotel maid. But then it's too much to handle because she's on her feet nonstop and works so much when the money isn't even good. She's gets way too over-exhausted so she quits her second job right away because she knows she can't do it and then she ends up quitting the waitressing job too before she's even been there for a whole month. She got really close to the other waitresses she met while doing this and learned about their lives too and how it's a real everyday struggle for them and they have no other money to fall back on like her. Many couldn't make enough for first and lasts rent so they would live out of their cars and stuff. It was sad because it was like a vicious cycle working their butts off just to get by and doing it over and over again never getting the chance to even save to ever become comfortable because it's all about just getting by.
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