I was simply shocked as to how many people came in every day looking for an application. Every single day. It was amazing. These weren't teenagers either.
Yeah, I'm not working in the restaurant business anymore because I'm a software engineer now. However, not everyone can become software engineers, and there is still a market for restaurants. I know I enjoy them myself. There is also a latency between age of employment and age that one usually acquires skills to be hired as a software engineer and not everyone has rich [read: middle class] parents to support them through that time.
I also don't need your career advice.
I would like to also point out I would never steal from my employer, or anyone else, it still goes against my morals.
That's cool, but you asked and I answered, and I correctly inferred that you didn't need the advice.
Glad to see you doing well, and Peace, dude!
(I started out at min wage jobs, too.)
My somewhat snarky comment was due being felt as if I was being talked down to.
>Peace, dude!
I'm a woman. Please don't presume the gender of an unknown speaker. It's rude and excluding.
First off, you were being paid more than minimum wage, and could be replaced at an hour's notice with someone willing to work at minimum wage.
So at some point you successfully demonstrated a higher value than those others, thereby getting a higher wage.
Secondly, you are no longer there at that wage. So you did something to demonstrate even higher value and a higher paying job.
My advice: do more of that, since it was working for you!