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A typical demographic of the gold-collar worker is a person who has attended vocational school, community college or other post-high school education, but didn't graduate or has a high school diploma or less, 18 to 25 years old and is employed either full time or part time. They may have odd jobs such as a Waiter or Waitress at a restaurant or a bar, a sales clerk at a department store or a specialized apparel store at a Shopping Mall , cleaning houses or hotel rooms, a Barista at a coffeehouse chain like Starbucks or Seattle's Best Coffee , or as a worker (or even a supervisor) at a Fast Food restaurant like McDonalds , Burger King , or Taco Bell . (These are jobs that college students might take in order to pay for tuition, apartment rent, or just simply for spending money while they attend college, vocational school, Beauty School , or Graduate School .) This group tends to have more disposable income than college students, who pay high tuitions and manage student loans and other debt. As a result a gold collar worker may have more money to spend on luxuries such as IPods , Designer clothes, expensive Cocktails at bars/night clubs, game systems such as the Xbox 360 or Wii and customized cars than a college student of around the same age as them might not be able to afford. The big drawback is however that in the long run the income of college graduates often exceeds that of these typical "gold collar" workers.
Because gold-collar workers have more disposable income, their spending can be dictated more by taste and preference rather than utility. A concern for gold-collar workers is poor job security and the lack of job advancement opportunities due to less education. Most gold-collar workers tend to live around medium to large urban Metropolitan Areas or around College Town s. Many choose to stay in these areas to stay close to some of the friends they made when they were attending college, or stuck around because their parents were angry at them for Dropping Out and as such may have been kicked out of their parent's home. Some may have grown up in the city or in the suburbs or exurbs surounding the city or college town and simply migrated to the city after graduating from High School . SEE ALSO
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