Personal Narrative: Minimum Wage

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I started minimum wage $ 5.75 per hours, on Sunday time and half, about 38 hours to 45 a week, now my pay is $11.35 , about to same hours. This is the only job I can keep, this is primary my schedule is change every week, I can not have other job. Most of the time I felt what kind of freedom here, I can not live without job, even having a job I won't make enough money to live.
This is my freedom of choice, but system makes me bonded slave, free slave, I am born wrong place or the system so corrupt only work for who have power and money.

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