you&#x27;re cute. wrong, but cute.<p>as the article cited 17-24y&#x2F;o i&#x27;m guessing the &#x27;poverty rate&#x27; is a little lower. please try to keep up. If you want to extrapolate the 17-24y&#x2F;o demographic to include <i>everyone</i>, please do so when it actually applies - not to <i>this</i> conversation re: <i>this</i> article. Strawman arguments are universally known as bullshit.<p>So, since you&#x27;re using you&#x27;re extensive knowledge of McDonald&#x27;s shift work, You&#x27;d already know that the corporation behind it offers college assistance and flex scheduling, right? of course you would because you&#x27;re a smart guy.<p>also, in actuality, my cousin <i>does</i> work for McDonald&#x27;s. He worked there for 10 years before buying his first (of 3 so far) franchise at the age of 28.<p>and while i never said self-study would absolutely get you the job you want, taking a &#x27;lesser&#x27; job would get you to the next step and so on and so forth to GET the job you want. Its called WORK for a reason. Most people today work harder to get <i>out</i> of work than it would take to actually <i>DO</i> to the work itself.