Why do people do min wage/manual jobs?

In my case i was at 4/6 year of mech engineering and suddently my father got bedridden and my mother developed cancer, i got JUST in uni because i had no funds to cover both uni and my house and with no other qualification than high school diploma i was forced to work guarding warehouses at night to survive

>Nobody gives a fuck about your job or your degree
Whatever your personal opinions somewhere between 90 and 99 percent of people do

I work for state government. So my benefits are set in stone unless the gov goes bankrupt. 401k/pension/medical. Vacation/sick time. Can retire after 27 yrs w/full retirement. Which for me means I'll be 50 yrs old and "retired" A cool thing is that you can use your sick time as a means to cut down or increase your service time at time of retirement. Any Vac time you have they reimburse you at time of retirement.

My job is dirt simple, yet it also keeps me up and in shape (print shop worker). I make just under $27k a year. But the col is low and I live close so that $27k goes a long way. My real talent lies with computers/networking. I've got certs plus hands on exp with both. Reason I'm not in IT at the state is due to them outsourcing 90 % of it. So I'd have to toss all my benefits and the ability to retire early out the window.

> Need 3 years office experience to get an office job
> Can't get office experience without an office job
> Office jobs pay less than manual work (thanks, union!)
> Office politics due to higher percentage of women
> Moving all day, so you don't get fat
> Get to play whatever music I want

>a simple, physical job over something where you have to think and are under some kind of pressure or responsibility
Spoken like someone who's never worked for a living.
Constant pressure. Constant need to think. Big responsibility to not fuck up.

This. Office drones just type for 9 hours (not paid for your lunch hour, expected to work through it regardless) and go home, repeat the next day.
When you've actually done stuff, there's a sense of accomplishment.

Okay, so what DO you do all day?

>so I'd go outside and eat lunch and smoke with them
You were listening to smokers whining about being poor and unhealthy because they smoke.

>wake up to an alarm clock when it's still dark out
>spend hours of your day commuting uncompensated
>have to buy a bunch of "business casual" clothes and shoes or the boss yells at you
>chained at a cubicle for 8+ hours
>get paid shitmoney
>barely time to eat and sleep before repeating it the next day
WOW
>Folks who have been doing it for years are unironically braindead.
Typically. I listen to audiobooks all day so I'm actually increasing my intelligence. Most don't listen to anything, or if they do, it's just music. The ability to do this is the only benefit of this shitty job.
Most of my coworkers are absolutely braindead hyper-NPCs. They're actually fucking retarded, and they have those dead eyes where you know all their hopes and dreams have been long since shattered.
Every old guy I know who worked blue-collar suffered some sort of horrible life crippling injury. Office work may be shitty but it doesn't injure you.

Are you familiar with the story of Cortez and the burning of his own ships?

You put yourself in a situation where your only two options are to do or die. You'll find the motivation pretty damn quickly. You're just too comfortable in your mediocrity.

what job you have? Id love to listen to books all day and get paid for it

Because I work for $60/h as a carpenter and I love my job. I'm 26 and I never even finished middle school. Why the fuck would I want to get an office job where my body would rot away from a sedentary lifestyle?

I know, I worked for one summer doing data entry for a bank. I know the dead fish eyes of the ones who've done that too long.
I've also seen the eyes of those who stared into the human abyss answering customer complaints on phone for too long. There's no coming back from this, they all were on pills or alcohol.

Officecucking is worse for the mind than making missiles.

Wage cage feels comfy after building walls on a river banking.