Wow! There's a winner!! Rooooooight.
.... started restaurants
Did you know that 60% of all restaurants fail in their first 3 years? Still more in the first five?
... gone into the motel business
Wow. Another winner!
... or do what I do, consultant work in my chosen field.
With the exception of consultants, which is good work "IF YOU CAN GET IT" all the other options you ticked off are complete losers. Subemployment PER SE. These are not the careers these people trained for or wanted. Good bye vacation benefits, retirement, health plans, etc. And oh, yeah, let's not think to hard about the failure rate of start-ups in general... All so that importers can get a fractionally cheaper toaster...at the expense of their fellow citizens who they vilify.
Remember this little document?
U.S. Constitution:
We the People, of the United States of America, in order to form a more perfect union....