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Ideal for: YOU
Job specifications: You’re technically too young to work, but the
government conveniently looks away as the booming garment industry brings in
billions of foreign investors. The good news is that you’re not handling
decaying bodies or animal entrails—but the benefits pretty much end there.
You work long hours, stooped over the sewing machine, often in a factory
with no ventilation or lighting.
Drawbacks: It’s repetitive, boring work, but you’re not exactly on cruise
control. You can’t afford to make a mistake; anything that doesn’t pass
quality control gets deducted from your salary. You can’t slow down either,
because you have a quota. So keep working that pedal, and worry about the
crick in your neck when you’re actually allowed to stand up and stretch.
That would be, oh, after nine hours. The pay is abysmally low, the irony
being that once you sew the label on that shirt, it’ll cost enough to pay
for about two months of your work.
Perks: It puts food on the table, and is
considerably better than being out on the streets, freezing from bitter
cold, while you beg a few coins from the tourists,
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