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"Gold collar worker"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold-collar_worker
Low wage, luxury seeking These are 18 to 25 year-old persons in a position to divert a significant portion of their earnings towards material luxuries. They typically have fewer than 2 years of post-high school education. Like their counterparts attending college, they are often employed as retail workers or in the hospitality industry, particularly food service as servers. Unlike college students, though, this group tends to have more disposable income than college students, who often pay high tuition costs, take on a number of financial loans, and often move away from their parents. A lack of financial obligations leaves young people in this situation with a higher enough level of discretionary/disposable income, which they use to finance luxury goods. Thus, the term also carries a connotation of immaturity, the extension of youth, and nurtered adolescence, as in the movie Failure to Launch, where a man still lives with his parents despite being well into his 30s and owning a business. In the UK the expression 'two-bob billionaire' is used, in that whilst one feels wealthy and hardworking one's status is in fact illusory. The main challenge faced by gold-collar workers is the short-lived nature of their financial security. More often than not, these people marry and have children, and take on additional financial responsibilities such as mortgages and health insurance. With partial or no higher education, however, their job prospects could be viewed as narrow and fairly restricted. “ These people are going to be cash-rich 19-year-olds and cash-poor 30-year-olds... If you're making 22 grand a year and not paying for college, you can earn enough disposable income to have an apartment and a car. But it tops out there. Job security is not good, and you end up in the lower middle class and working poor. This describes a lot of people in my generation.
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Yes, yes it does.
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...........so, didja quit that marina job yet.......??
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I go to college and have a job that used to give me enough money for play. Now It doesnt, thats what parting out uber rare cars is for!
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Years ago. But I go to school full time, so I just make it out of this catagory.
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