> ## Content Index
> Fetch the complete content index at: https://thedailyeudemon.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further.

# Job Tuesday
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/10016/
- Published: 2009-06-16T07:20:28.000Z
- Updated: 2009-06-16T07:20:28.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: TWE, #wpChunk

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/mcdonalds-300x225.jpg "mcdonalds")

Hand Me that Spatula!

[A writer sends out three hundred résumés in response to job postings](http://www.esquire.com/print-this/best-job-searches-0709-2?ref=thedailyeudemon.com). He got only eight interviews and only two real prospects: "I applied for about three hundred jobs. I applied to be a marketing designer at Nascar, a personal shopper at Tiffany, and a methadone counselor at Rikers Island. I applied to be the vice-president of collections and exhibitions at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, a product designer at La-Z-Boy, a housekeeper on a cruise ship, a butler in a mansion, and a baby photographer. I applied to be a customer-service rep at Trump University, a multimedia coordinator at the Clinton Global Initiative, and some kind of manager at Toys "R" Us, Chuck E. Cheese's, Blockbuster, Home Depot, Starbucks, KFC, and McDonald's."

It's scary stuff, but I scoff at his dismissive attitude to McDonald's: "It's not entirely unflattering to hear you're potential management material, even if it's for a McDonald's franchise in a part of New York where the *Law & Order* cops find dead hookers. . . The McDonald's brass, with their billions served and hellish turnover rates, had interviewing down to a science, and I wasn't all that surprised when I didn't hear back from them, either."

I had lunch last week with a retired McDonald's franchisee. He did well with his businesses, and I related to him how a former McDonald's franchisee client of mine in northern Indiana paid his store managers $60,000 a year (this was about eight years ago), plus medical insurance. He said he wasn't surprised. Good managers, he said, command salaries in excess of $100,000, plus benefits. He said he smirks when people mock, "You wanna be a hamburger flipper all your life?"

There's money in them burgers! Don't be too quick to condescend.

**That's it for today**. Long baseball game last night, long days at the office.