Are there really any "jobs Americans won't do?

Question

I clean my OWN house,do my OWN dishes,clean my OWN toilets,etc,etc,etc!!!!! So do all my friends and family.
I personally know several people who do janitorial work for a living!!! And i know some who own and work on their own farms!! They actually DO the jobs that everyone keeps saying "Americans won't do"!!! So,WHAT exactly are these jobs that Americans won't do?????? Because,i do NOT know of ANY!!!!

to 'gol" i HAVE cleaned other peoples toilets!!! I've done a LOT of things i thought i would never do, just to help support my children!!! I've even wiped someone ELSE'S dirty butt, when i worked in home health care several years ago!!!! Can YOU say that?? NO, i didn't think so!!!!

Answer 1

NO!! Americans did those jobs BEFORE the illegal invaders came and offered to do them for less money, slave wages. Of course the producers, crew chiefs, business owners took them up on it, it left more profit in THEIR pockets. They let the American go and hired illegals. Even though the American wasn't on welfare, paid taxes, paid into soc. sec. with a BONAFIDE social security card that belonged to HIM and was a LEGAL American citizen, legally able to work in the USA. Only the rich can afford to pay someone to clean their toilets, do their yard work, housekeeping and child care. We work in our own gardens, do our own maintenence when possible,we don't hire anyone for those jobs. Most Americans are not RICH!

Answer 2

I've done housekeeping for hotels, served food for 4 different restaurant chains, cleaned bathrooms for a state run welcome center, and changed diapers in day care centers in 2 different states.....so NO, there isn't anything I wouldn't do to make a living!

And all because I have children to raise! You're right...there aren't any, despite what we hear on the television, or read in the news. It's just an excuse used to verify why they're here, and that the work they're doing is something Americans are supposedly too good for.

One of the answerers hit on it though...."living wages", and the laws that implement them. I've just finished reading about the city of Chicago implementing that law for large retailers. Which means....WalMart SuperCenters will now have to pay $10.00 an hour to their workers, along with $3 an hour bonuses. BUT....what does that mean for the servers, the waiters and waitresses that don't work for large retailers, but small restaurants, etc.? Here in Georgia....that would be great....but the servers would still be starting out at $2.11 an hour. Fair? I don't think so......

Someone asked a question not long ago about making a default minimum wage throughout the world's businesses. It's just not possible....but it IS possible to make wages across the 50 states more in line with each other. But how......when you've got businesses who fight this type of increase with all they've got.

So...I'll be watching, and reading...and seeing exactly where all this goes...hopefully, for those who deserve to make the wages....up, up, up! :)

Answer 3

It's just like my good friend Cherokee Rose said. We did all of those jobs before the criminal trespassers came and ruined the country. There are NO JOBS that Americans will not do. However, we don't usually live 30 or more per household and have tax free paychecks. We cannot survive on $3.50 an hour. We are better than that and we should be payed accordingly.

I have always cleaned my own house, did my own laundry, washed our vehicles, cooked, etc. I hire an American to do my landscaping. I will never hire an illegal to do anything. I have never needed them and will never.

For the ignorant poster above me...I am very well educated and I still do those jobs. Try another insult.

Answer 4

Its not that americans won't do those jobs, its that they will no do them at the wages that are being offered to illegal immigrants and without the benefits. I am sure that your friends that work in farms are not out there for 2 or 3 bucks /hour. They would demand at least minimum wage from their employers.

So, without the necessary evil of illegal immigration, you pound of tomatoes for 0.99 cents will go up to 3 or 4 dollars...

You can clean your OWN stuff all you want but how much would you like to be paid to clean someone elses mess? How much would you charge to clean toilets in a bar or an office building after hours?

Answer 5

I'm sure that there is someone for every job. But the bigger issue is the cost. It is less expensive to pay an immigrant to a job (for example, construction, landscaping, etc) and these jobs are paid in cash. This means that the employer doesn't have to report the worker, which means they don't need to offer benefits or workman's compensation. The worker doesn't have to report taxes, and in the realm of money-making, everyone wins.

I appreciate that you do your own chores, and yes, I also know people who are legal and work laborous jobs. I think the bigger question is why Americans are so afraid of immigrants. They are willing to work their butts off to make it, and many Americans are not. I think their work ethic is a good thing, not something that should be held against them.

Answer 6

honey, we are not saying all, you are just one out of a million. There are some Americans that still do dirty jobs. Hence I am a US citizen and I refuse to do what you do. I have higher learning, the problem is not will illegal, it has to do with law makers. If you stop whining and start to see whats really going on you would not be so ignorant. By the way if you are as poor as you say, why don't you go to school, you are an American, don't you qualify for student aid. Hell so you wont have to complaint you clean other peoples house and wipe a$$es for a living. THATS NASTY

Answer 7

The jobs we won't do are jobs that are not offered to us for these jobs are not listed on the Internet, the newspaper or for that matter a job your friend might say you can do.

These are jobs that are dangerous, back breaking, lack any type of job security, but most importantly they are jobs most Americans won't work for the wages being offered.

For example: On a frigid January day, Portillo Mercedes Alvarez, 47, stands on a street corner in Alexandria, Va., hoping a contractor drives by with a day job painting or doing carpentry. He has a temporary work permit and is looking to make $8 or $10 an hour. In a good month he can send $100 or $200 to his wife and five children in El Salvador, although often he just breaks even.

As many as 100 day laborers gather at the corner when the weather is warm, despite the risks associated with such casual employment. Sometimes the people who pick up Alvarez refuse to pay him at the end of the day. In his wallet, he carries two bounced checks for $320 that he should have been paid in November.

The same day, Hubert Pegues, 43, waits his turn at the nearby Virginia Employment Commission office. He was laid off from his food service job in November and hasn't been able to find work since, so he has applied for unemployment benefits.

Immigrants now take most of the jobs in his industry, which used to go predominantly to African-Americans, Pegues said. He opposes easing restrictions on immigration.

"We don't have enough work for those who are here," he said.

Sadly the problem is not just migrants both legal and illegal, but it squarely lies with employers and those that enjoy the fruits of cheap labor or the impression that you are paying less due to cheap labor.

The backlash against immigrants’ legal/illegal has in some states increased the growth of hate groups and created a rise in hate crimes by groups that are riding the train of American insecurity and ignorance. This is not as much about immigrants but instead the proxy war of global economics, international trade and the rise of international mega companies.

The hate towards immigrants/illegal immigrants is the cry of the working man/women who sees that in the world of global economics they are just numbers. Instead of bashings immigrants and wondering what "Jobs Americans Won't Do" maybe instead you should be asking what "Jobs Americans Will Do at a Living Wage", but for now please keep on buying cheap lettuce, enjoy low housing prices and please two eggs with bacon at a very cheap price.

Answer 8

I grew up on an almond orchard. My dad paid $1.25/hr. over minimum wage and we could not get whites to do the work--I was the only white person in the field.

I also picked apricots when I was 14--this was the late 70's when we had double digit inflation and unemployment. Again, I was the only white person in the field, and the only reason I could get some work was because some farmers paid by the bucket and didn't care that the immigrants could work 3 times faster than I could--and I was in good shape.

Oh yea--I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for a white person to come remove your roof in the summer time.

(Some of these answers are pretty funny--like the one about illegals claiming the earned income tax credit. Hmmm, kind of suggests they have a valid SSN that the IRS recognizes--pssst,,they don't!)

Answer 9

how about working in a shoe factory and doing nothing but lace sneekers all day long and at the end of the day you get paid like $1.50 or some thing like that. Or heres a job two miles away from where i live you go into the field at 6:00 am and pick pnions all day long you get paid .50 cents per crate picked and the crates are 2ft cubes and on the adverage take about 45min to fill now tell me honestly that you would do either of these jobs

Answer 10

Please stop confusing
the issue with the facts.

The phrase "cheap labor" is a myth, a farce, and a lie. There is
no such thing as "cheap labor." Take, for example, an illegal
Mexican who sneaks in here with his wife and five children. He
takes a job for five or six dollars an hour. At that wage with six
dependents he pays no income tax, yet at the end of the year gets an
"earned income credit" of up to $3,200 free!!!. He qualifies for Section 8
housing and subsidized rent, food stamps, and free (no deductible, no
co-pay) health care. His children get free breakfasts and lunches at school,
and require bi-lingual teachers and books that taxpayers provide. He doesn't
have to worry about car insurance, life insurance, or homeowners insurance.
Taxpayers provide Spanish language signs, bulletins, and printed material.
He cannot be fired, harassed, or sued. He and his family receive the
equivalent of $20 to $30 an hour in benefits, while working Americans are
lucky to have $5 or $6 an hour left after paying their bills and his, and
paying for increased crime, graffiti, and trash cleanup.

Cheap labor? My a**!"
It's only cheap for Bush's corporate friends!
Get It? I hope this helps answer your question.

Answer 11

The jobs that americans won't break their backs over. Farms, yea right, thats nothing compared to working in fields all day in the blazing heat and bending over and over everyday...the reason you don't know is because they're the jobs americans won't notice. Have you ever noticed that housing devolpments have..What race landscaping and maintaining the yards....Hispanics, mexicans. So right there is a job that most americans wont do.