å Saturday, November 12th, 2016

When reading the chapters, Enrenreich realizes that people who work two or more jobs and are in poverty cannot afford food or shelter.  She cant imagine how people who work $8.00 an hour or less can survive so she wants to find out how. She starts by telling us what she is going to do and how she is going to do it. She cant use any of her education skills, she will take the highest paying job and make it her best to keep it and find the most accommodating place to live. She looks for a place to live and settling on a $500 a month efficiency apartment, and this is the start of her low-wage life, taking place in Key West Florida. The struggles of applying for jobs and no one calls you back until eventually, she finds a waitressing position. She explains how she works from 2:00 in the evening to 10.00 at night for $2.43 an hour plus tips. She tells us how wages are too low and rent is too high. She was giving another job as a housekeeper and a dietary aid on the weekends. She learns about different types of medications for pain and how she basically ended up feeding an entire alzhiemers ward all by herself. She tells us about the conditions and how sad it is to see.  This was an experiment that she will never forget, and if she didn’t take the chance to experience it she would of never know how it is like for people that are less fortunate. Who don’t have the same access too things as she does. My own personal opinion I believe that a single mother can survive without welfare. Enrenreich realizes that poor are poor and there is almost no escape from it. She learns that people with low or no education, have fewer opportunties, low-wage workers have few options and that is it hard of people to change their lives.