//Food Is No Longer Your Fallback Job. It Never Should Have Been in the First Place.

Food Is No Longer Your Fallback Job. It Never Should Have Been in the First Place.

I graduated from college in the spring of 2008. If you’ll recall, that fall wasn’t a great time to enter the job market, and the advice I got from anyone who had an opinion (which was everyone) was to “go wait tables.” It was a catchall phrase for the kind of work that was assumed to be available whenever the chips were down — the guidance given to every high schooler looking for extra money, every college grad who doesn’t