Barbara Ehrenreich is a writer who decided to embark on the challenge of living the life that someone lives working a low wage job. To do this, she traveled to Florida, Maine and Minnesota. She was supposed to stay at each location for a month. She began her work in Florida because it was close to home. Here she got a job as a waitress, and when she realized that this was not going to be enough money for the bills she needed to pay, she got a second job as a maid. She only lasted as a maid for one day because the job was too physically demanding. She then left the job and moved on to her next location, Maine. In Maine, Ehrenreich worked as a maid and a dietary aid at a nursing home. Just like in Florida, the maid position was very physically