Minimum Wage Pros And Cons Essay

Pros and Cons of Minimum Wage What comes to your mind when you hear minimum wage? In my mind, a minimum wage is only temporary for a teenage condition. For example, for minimum wage jobs are the stepping stone to gain experiences and skills for a better rewarding job. I work at Fresno Unified School District (FUSD) as an AVID tutor at Sunnyside High School, and I get paid minimum wage. My experience from being an AVID tutor has good and bad time. Working with my students that I am assigned to be their tutor are very well respectful and awesome; however, while some others students that I have to cover for like my co-workers when they are not available, some of their students are respectful of acknowledging that it is my job to do what I have to do while some others students are very disrespectful and immature. For instance, while help with students, I always using my mentality unlike some people who work with their hands and feets, I feel that I should get paid more, but at the same time, I felt that it is unfair to others. My parents told me that my first job may not be a job that I will like or love, but at least, it can help me pay for gas, car insurance, phone bill, and foods. Plus, being a tutor is only a …show more content…
It is one of the current debates today. During the Depression, the minimum wage raised from .25 cents to $7.25 per hour (Wihbey, 2015, p.1). Ever since then, the minimum wage has been increasing from $7.25 to $8, to $9, and currently $10. According to Wihbey (2015), the minimum wage will eventually increase up to “$15 an hour in 2017” (p.1). For many workers, minimum wage employment used to be a “temporary, teenage condition where people bussed tables or answered phones or cleaned rooms for tiny paychecks before moving on to more financially rewarding work” (Shemkus, n.d., p.1). However, nowadays people are trying to make minimum wage the “rewarding work” (Shemkus, n.d.,