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" If you find out someone works for McDonald&amp;#039;s, what&amp;#039;s your instant reaction? Do you look down on them for working in\u00A0a &amp;#039;fast food&amp;#039; environment? Wonder why they haven&amp;#039;t got a &amp;#039;real job&amp;#039;? It&amp;#039;s possible that you do, because there seems to be something of a stigma which causes people to judge those who work at the fast food chain negatively. But one Edinburgh-based McDonald&amp;#039;s worker was fed up of the ill-informed assumptions, so decided to vent his frustrations on Facebook.  In a post that&amp;#039;s since gone viral, McDonald&amp;#039;s employee Mike Waite explains the reasons he does work for the fast food chain (not that he should have to explain this to anybody; a job is a job, after all). &amp;quot;Not because I have no aspiration, motivation or intelligence...but for the opposite,&amp;quot; Mike writes.\u00A0 In his post, which has so far been liked 48,000 times and\u00A0shared almost 8,000 times, the employee goes on to describe how he had previously worked in a career that had dissatisfied him so he&amp;#039;d recently left to pursue a higher education which will qualify him for a career he truly desires. McDonald&amp;#039;s is allowing him to fund these studies by earning money at the same time.      &amp;quot;The one thing McDonalds is is a job which is extremely (extremely) flexible, has opportunities for growth and can allow you to do what you want to do. There are people becoming pilots, lawyers, designers, architects, and people who are at a point in their life that they will do whatever it takes to look after their family.&amp;quot; And Mike explains that his job in the fast food restaurant has allowed him to work alongside some of the most inspirational people he&amp;#039;s ever met. &amp;quot;I work with people I would aspire to be like,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;Who have strengths in areas I wish I had, who have overcome situations I never could and who have the determination to not fade away on handouts but rather step up and work for their living unlike a huge number of people in this country.\u00A0 &amp;quot;In the past I have known and worked with very rich folks in very high end jobs, and a few of them could never match the resilience and work ethic of some of the current lads/lassies.&amp;quot;  And he&amp;#039;s totally right. Who is anyone to judge another person just because they work in an environment many people\u00A0view as a lesser career. Whether McDonald&amp;#039;s employees are working there because it&amp;#039;s a stepping stone towards their ideal job, or whether it&amp;#039;s because they want to progress within McDonald&amp;#039;s as a company, they&amp;#039;re getting up each day and going to work. And there&amp;#039;s absolutely\u00A0nothing negative that can be said about\u00A0that. &amp;quot;Yes it has its downsides,&amp;quot; Mike wrote. &amp;quot;Yes the wages can be bad and yes it can be difficult, but every job has is negatives and McD&amp;#039;s is no different. &amp;quot;Overall please just take your preconceptions and be rid of them because I work with some amazing people, and like many of them McDonalds is not a &amp;quot;dead-end&amp;quot; of my working life but rather part of the beginning. Now, what drink would you like with that order?&amp;quot; Brilliant. Follow Cat on Twitter.   Like this? Come and check us out on Snapchat Discover.\u00A0  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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