My family is not wealthy. In my life I have worked many of the same jobs that the author did (waitressing and wal-mart, to name a few). While I agree with the author's descriptions of the jobs themselves, and some of the conclusions she draws, I was mostly insulted by this book. I was not aware that I was so desperately "poor" and that I was such an object of pity, scorn, ridicule and amazement (as if the fact that I have a college degree, or actually read makes me something of a well-trained circus monkey). Basically, I was so insulted by the author's attitudes toward the people she was working with, that I had to force myself to finish the book.