Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich :: Selling in Minnesota

The chapter, Selling in Minnesota, had about disturbing information about the low wage life. As I read, I pecked that every place the reference went to apply, such as a Wal-Mart and a Home Depot type place called Menards, involve the applicant to pass a drug test. The author went out and had to deprave detox for $30, but can be up to $60. Also, I learn that 81% of employers do drug test their future employees. I go int like this statistic, in part because I tried get a job at Marshall Fields eatery and they required me to pass a drug test. Luckily, another employer called me before my plan drug screening (which I had planned on passing by being authentically sneaky and using the urine of a helper of mine), so I took that job offer and everything worked out well. The reason I dont agree with the drug testing required to penetration most entry-level jobs, is because the wholly if drugs they actually test for is Marijuana. Cocaine and heroine leave the be within three days, and other drugs arent even tested for. So that leaves the most commonly used illicit drug, and one that has the least yarn-dye on the user, to be tested for.When the author first moved to Minnesota, she lived in a friend of a friends apartment until she could escort another apartment. The friend is out of town and required that the author takes attention of her canary in order for her to stay there. The bird, which the author comes to call Budgie, is really annoying and has to be let out of its cage a a couple of(prenominal) times or otherwise it will go crazy in the cage. The author looks extremely had to find an apartment to stay at. Apparently, there is only a less than 1% apartment vacancy in Minnesota. Also, the only apartments that are available are defiantly not accessible to entry-level employees, religious offering hot tubs and over $1000 a month payments. One of the places that the author tried to get a job at required that the employee had lived in Minnesota fo r at least one year.