I wonder if anyone really loves working for McDonald's, or if this kind of advice is only supposed to apply to privileged middle-class (and above) folks?
Even for privileged middle+1 class folks, this advice is ridiculous. There aren't that many people that can quit their job and be near-guaranteed to find something better.
Can anyone name a field for which that's true, not counting software development? Even among us, that's not even true for 50% of programmers.
Some jobs are a way of working yourself up to the job you'd do for free and that's what a McDonalds job is to people who aren't stuck in it. If I were the author I'd make that an addendum.
Can anyone name a field for which that's true, not counting software development? Even among us, that's not even true for 50% of programmers.