You honestly think Joe Preppy, recent Yale graduate, would sign on to pain houses??? Lady, not only do you severely lack a grasp on the English language, and basic grammar…you severely lack a grasp on reality.

Yes, there are still jobs that Americans won't do. Having interacted with some of them over the last few years, I can offer some reasons why:

1). "That job is beneath me." Some feel that their education, experience, and former status exempt them from doing certain "menial" jobs. In reality, their parents worked their fingers to the bone at those "menial" jobs to feed, clothe, and shelter them. My parents worked, and worked, and worked to feed my siblings and I and I have no problem leaving my plush office environment and getting my hands dirty if I have to. I didn't get an inheritance or an extravagant lifestyle from my parents, but I got one hell of a work ethic.

2). "I want to go right to the top." Most Americans hold "manager" and "director" and "supervisor" in higher regard than they do "Laborer Level 1" or "Farm Hand" or "Technician." Everyone wants to go to college, come into an organization with their Ivy League degree, and take over the operation in six months. Education will never be total replacement for experience and expertise. I know of a couple of guys–one went to Harvard and another went to a highly-ranked business school in the Midwest–who have actually turned down jobs recently because they "want more" than the employers are offering them. My first reaction was to say "WTF!" Both are essentially living off of their spouse's income right now.

3). "What will my friends think?" So the company you worked for went bankrupt and you lost your job. Your so-called friends are still holding on to their jobs at the big investment, design, and marketing firms, but you're now trying to decide whether to apply for the job working in the shoe section at K Mart or the produce section at the local grocery store. But paying your bills isn't the most important thing on your mind. Your BIGGEST concern is what my friends will think when I tell them that I wash and stock fruits and vegetables all day at a local grocery store six days a week. Some of us are embarrassed by what others will say.

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4). "Slavery is over." Some blacks (and other races in some situations) feel like "the man is trying to keep us down." So because you don't get to show up late, leave early, lounge around most of the work shift, and gab on your expensive unnecessary cell phones all day, you compare the less lucrative work environment to "a prison" or "concentration camp" or "plantation." How do I know this? I lived in the same household, went to college with, and have worked beside some of these people for most of my life. Yes, there are some who relate any task having to do with hard work, sweat, working for an employer who happens to be white to slavery. "Slavery this…and slavery that…" All I have to say to these people is …REALLY?!

5). "I'm too clean to do that." Some people would do more to keep their overpriced sneakers clean than they will to find and keep a job that may require them to get their hands dirty. Folks, everybody cannot work in the office…there isn't enough room. Someone has to do the real work. My father was a diesel mechanic and he came home every night looking and smelling like he had been dipped in oil and dirt. He did not mind getting dirty because he knew he, his wife, and kids had to eat and live under a roof or end up hungry and on the street. My family lived in and I grew up in a rural area; we had a garden the size of to 6 to 10 square blocks and if you wanted to eat, you worked that garden and milked it for all it was worth. That meant getting sweaty and dirty. And what you didn't eat, you sold or gave to the neighbors.

6."That's too far away or I don't know anybody over there." People, at some point, you need to leave home and make new friends. Mommy and daddy will not be around forever. Those "friends" will still be there…if they were ever your REAL friends. Whatever "ties" you may have to a certain area, you can probably recreate or reproduce elsewhere. One friend refuses to leave "the city" as he calls it to take a job. He has been unemployed for months now and has received three jobs offers in small towns in different states. He could live modestly for a few years and do very well financially and then return to the city once the economy picks back up; however, he refuses to do so. He doesn't want to "live in the country" or live somewhere with "nothing to do." That's another one that makes me ask "WTF?"

Rather than listing more of these, I'll just summarize by saying that all of the "reasons" for Americans not willing to take or do certain jobs are essentially trivial and do not fit in with this fallacy of "success" that we either dream up or breathed upon us by those around us. Again, no one wants to "start at the bottom" anymore unless it comes with an office, paid vacations, an expense account and an opportunity to wear Ralph Lauren, Armani, Dolce & Gabana, or other overpriced attire every day.

I do want to emphasize one more thing: Some people are just plain lazy. This is irrespective of race or sex. I see these people every day at my current job. And it was worse at previous jobs. Some people want to do the "minimum" in order to keep their jobs…and if they can get away with less or nothing at all, they will.

I want you to name one damn job an American will not do, just so I can call you a damn LIAR. I have been looking for a job for a year, and do not car if it is washing dishes, so don't hand me your lying crap

Yes there are! And…there always will be as long as the government feed, cloth and take care of every need for those on welfare! They'd be crazy to to want to work hard!!
You gotta ask yourself, "Who's stupid here!"

well, there will always be lazy people in every race! but there are a lot of "AMERICAN" people out of work that will work any job. I am not afraid to get my hands dirty. I have worked those jobs they say us "AMERICANS" will not do. I don't care if it is digging ditches or cleaning toliets, I have done pretty much any and all kinds of dirty work you can come up with.

We "AMERICANS" could and would work those jobs if they weren't being taken away from us. Alot of places will not hire us, they will hire the "ILLEGALS" over us. Because they know they can pay them next to nothing. They are bringing down our wages. It isn't that they are better at working than we are, or will do the jobs we will not do, it is that they will work for nearly nothing. Not all businesses hire illegals though, but those that do causes those that don't to go our of business. Now how fair is that ? And a lot of businesses now you have to know how to speak spanish. What is up with that? Why do we in our own country have to speak spanish before we can get a job ? How fair is that ? This is crazy! I think our country is backasswards!!! they give all the rights to the "ILLEGALS" and snub their noses at the "AMERICANS". They award law breakers and punish the "AMERICANS" I don't get that ! CRAZY!!

I totally disagree. Actually, we americans don't take those hard jobs not because they were taking from us.But because of the weather condition, physical effort, dirt our hands, and etc.

OK clean horse crap on a farm or pick fruits of less then minimum wage. that's what their doing,
they didn't pick their wages that what was given to them. also sleep in a overcrowded house with
no privacy to get the real Mexican immigrants feelings. i mean that's who your talking about i mean., the non white immigrants cause all the white one can come in right?