It's a bad thing if those in the "low-skilled service jobs" are there because they gave up on something bigger.
Are the people with the drive and ambition to do something bigger the type to give up? It seems like a catch 22 to me.
There are many successful people who grew up poor, uneducated, and even in violent family situations, but are now successful. They may have even had a "low skilled service job" at one point. It's good we have people to work those jobs - we need them, and it appears to be no serious impediment to true ambition and skill.
Likewise, it would have been bad for the likes of Steve Wozniak to have lived his life as a cubicle-dwelling random engineer, rather than to have blessed the world with his bigger ideas.
Without Steve Jobs' endless gusto and encouragement, that might have happened. It's not necessarily that we give up on things and end up with crappy jobs.. it's usually that we have crappy jobs and then things come along and inspire us out of it.
Are the people with the drive and ambition to do something bigger the type to give up? It seems like a catch 22 to me.
There are many successful people who grew up poor, uneducated, and even in violent family situations, but are now successful. They may have even had a "low skilled service job" at one point. It's good we have people to work those jobs - we need them, and it appears to be no serious impediment to true ambition and skill.
Likewise, it would have been bad for the likes of Steve Wozniak to have lived his life as a cubicle-dwelling random engineer, rather than to have blessed the world with his bigger ideas.
Without Steve Jobs' endless gusto and encouragement, that might have happened. It's not necessarily that we give up on things and end up with crappy jobs.. it's usually that we have crappy jobs and then things come along and inspire us out of it.