Yesterday I was talking to a group of people who were working on a film and they started working from about 7am with an anticipation that it could last the whole evening as well. While they mentioned that they were dead tired and could barely stay awake, the thought of how much they would be paid due to all the overtime was a motivating factor for them to not complain and besides that they don’t mind.

I know most people who hear that would wonder how anyone could fathom the idea of working say 12 hour days for a long period without being apprehensive over it even if they are making more money. When you are truly doing something you enjoy you tend to not keep track of the time per say but rather achieving a goal.

This is one of those things too where when you do something you truly enjoy the money seems to come naturally in one way or another too. Whenever I have to put in long hours into some kind of task I personally don’t see it as having to work longer but rather working more now so that I don’t have to work as much afterwards. Different way of thinking I guess.

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There is some talk here in BC about people wanting to increase the minimum wage to about $10/hr. For awhile now, it has been $8/hr. I suppose it is pretty much the same everywhere on how increasing the minimum wage is suppose to make things better for everyone. In general, the logic is supposed to be how you are getting a better income base to accommodate a normal lifestyle due to the increase cost of living.

This is one of those topics that I would have immediately said “great” when I was a teenager, but the more I think about it the more I feel that it doesn’t really do what people think it does. In some ways, it can be more harmful. From my personal experience, most people who are working for minimum wage are say teenagers who are working for the first time. Generally for most, as a teenager you have no real expenses.

If you are an adult who is say educated or obtain some kind of decent skill and experience, I don’t see why you would be earning anywhere near minimum wage anyhow. From a business point of view, this makes it harder to be able to afford hiring people for positions where younger people with no experience would love to do. I can even imagine say those summer fair jobs that a lot of people do will be axed as a result of the organization not having the budget to hire as many people with a wage hike.

While this would be more controversial, some say there shouldn’t be a minimum wage at all. Reason that I hear from most is that many times people want to work somewhere for experience without pay, but the employer or organization can’t do so as they need to follow rules. That is going a little too overboard I’d say though as we need some kind base to prevent too much abuse.

Overall though, I would see a minimum wage hike benefiting more to the people that don’t really need it in the first place as oppose to helping the majority of working adults that have a lot of bills to pay if the goal was to help people in terms of the cost of living here.

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