Re: Why do blacks not tip?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> anthony baldwin wrote:
>
> > As a waiter for years my contention was that the guest in the restaurant
> > WAS my boss, if you ask me (and I always referred to them as guests, not
> > customers).  I was only subcontracted by the restaurant to serve them.
> > After all, the restaurant paid me $4.25/hour out of which taxes were
> > taken so that would take home a $90 paycheck at the end of the week, all
> > the while the guests routinely tipped me about $20-30/hour (I worked in
> > nice restaurants) out of which I routinely took home $700-900/week
> > (almost twice what I now make as a highly educated, professional public
> > school teacher, wherein I work twice as many hours and bring tons of
> > work home.  
>
>
> So why don't you go back to the dining/serving biz?

Because I am a single parent and waiting tables is all nights and 
weekends. Who wants to go to work just as their children are coming home 
for the night or the weekend?  Not, me, I want to raise my child.
Besides, teaching rocks.
Life is not about making money or having things.
What I do today, teaching 7th and 8th grade English, is meaningful, 
challenging, brain scrambling, exasperating and extremely rewarding.
I love it.
Of course, I either paint houses or wait tables in the summer, the 
busiest and most lucrative season around here, to make up for the insult 
of a wage I make as a teacher during the rest of the year...