Personal Narrative: Social Inequality

I recalled my final memory of high school; it was a relaxed day and I never could had imagined that post-high school life would be so difficult. I did not know that social inequality existed or that there were countless social problems in the world. Furthermore, I had no vision of what my future holds, so I unknowingly took the traditional route of attending college, in hopes that one day the journey would turn into a career. I attended my first semester of community college in Fall of 2012, and I also began working as an employee at McDonalds. I navigated through college alone, and struggled writing a two-page paper for my first sociology class. I received an F grade on the paper, and considered dropping out of college. However, I never dropped

The owners, bourgeoisie, of the restaurant did not have to sell the burgers and fries themselves, but I the worker, proletarian, sell their products and is compensated at the minimum wage of $8 dollars an hour. “A wage labor is what is absolutely necessary to keep the laborer in t bare existence as a laborer” (Ruiz, 2017). If there was no minimum wage law, I am sure that I would have been paid far less and faced greater exploitation. I worked before attending my afternoon classes, and work whenever I had no classes like on the weekend. However, I started disliking my job about after six months because my hours were unexpectedly cut short. I worked 4 hours shift, and between 4-5 days a week. When sells are low, the managers would start sending workers home. I would be sent home, and never even make the hours that I was scheduled to work. This treatment became absurd when the managers hired more, new workers, and my schedule was once a week. “While wage earners are free to quit or refuse a particular job, they nevertheless must sell their labor power to someone in the capitalist class in order to live” (Applerouth 2017:24). Eventually, I decided to resigned to focus only on school since I cannot save any money while working there, thus my labor’s value was deemed to be