Working an hourly food service job is an experience I think a lot of people could benefit from having. I didn&#x27;t work at mcDonalds (have some friends who did&#x2F;still do) but I worked at a pizza chain instead because my consultant business was failing (teenagers can&#x27;t run businesses well).<p>The experience taught me a lot about what it means to be employed and have a job. You experience the day to day grind some people will experience for the rest of their life. You work with people who work 40 hour weeks and walk 5 miles home to their low-income housing supporting a family of 4. You realize these are the people who will be directly affected by legislation that may allow them to continue to live, or die.<p>How can we vote on these people&#x27;s livelihoods without experiencing their position? How can someone who graduated high school, got paid to go to college, and graduated into a comfy high paying desk job empathize? They do not know the struggle. They do not understand the life these people live.<p>I work a desk job now where I don&#x27;t do anything hard in exchange for a decent pay. I&#x27;m able to visit my family during holidays because I don&#x27;t have to worry about being scheduled. When I&#x27;m told to go meet with a client I don&#x27;t have to worry about being hit in the face with breadsticks, or worse... I try to think about my food service job frequently and how blessed I am to not be doomed to continue it for the rest of my life.