5 of America's fastest growing jobs pay less than $25,000

[JayhawkSD]

23. So, what? You want to start at the top?

I started in the Navy as an E-1 at about $0.84 per hour. When I left the Navy as a fully qualified electrician I had to serve as an apprentice before the union made me a journeyman. I didn't start my career making more than my siblings who went to college, I had to earn that higher pay.

That is not entirely about the government, either. It's about thinking differently.

Post #12 says that there are still trades jobs and adds, "They are hard work though." Of course they are hard work. You don't need to tell me that. I worked for more than twenty years in one of those jobs. I didn't mind hard work. In fact, I pretty much expected for my job to be hard work. I thrived on hard work. I welcomed the challenge of hard work.

Today we want to be the college kid who invents some silly computer gadget and sells it for millions so that we never have to work again. Or we buy lottery tickets because we're going to win the big one and live without having to work for the rest of our lives. And so a society dies. Not from what its government did or didn't do, but from the sloth generated by its own wealth.