I've just recently started looking for jobs so waiting jobs are one of the obvious ones that I've looked at. Ever worked in the food industry waiting tables?
I have, there is good money to be made, the wait staff is also called servers
Isn't it kinda messed up that they are allowed to pay them below minimum wage because of the assumption that they'll be tipped?
I think so too, in 2008 it was estimated 2.2 million people were employed as servers
Damn that's a ton of people. How was your experience waiting tables?
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Terminology.
An individual waiting tables is commonly called a "server", "front server", "waitress", "waiter", "member of the wait staff", "waitstaff" or "serving staff" "server", "waitperson", or less commonly the 1980s American neologism "waitron". Archaic terms such as "serving girl", "serving wench", or "serving lad" are generally used only within their historical context.
Duties.
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to the effects of the existence of some sectors where employed workers are paid more than the market-clearing equilibrium wage. Not only does this restrict the amount of employment in the high-wage sector, but it attracts workers from other sectors who "wait" to try to get jobs there. The main problem with this theory is that such workers will likely "wait" while having jobs, so that they are not counted as unemployed. In Hollywood, for example, those who are waiting for acting jobs also wait