She finds a cheap efficiency and takes a job as a waitress at a restaurant named Hearthside.
She also decides to give herself a few luxuries: she will always have a car and will end the experiment if she is at risk of becoming houseless.Įhrenreich starts in her home city of Key West, Florida. The rules of the experiment are that she cannot rely on any skills she acquired from her education to get jobs she has to take the highest-paying job offered to her and she has to live in the cheapest accommodations available that are safe and private. The primary question Ehrenreich is attempting to answer in Nickel and Dimed is whether she can survive on the wages of the lowest-paying jobs in America.
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