Like a Pirate in a Restaurant

They say a man should always dress for the job he wants. So why was I dressed up like a pirate in a restaurant, you ask? Well, it was all because this hacker stole my identity, and so I had to go in every evening to sell chowder and iced tea.
I should have gone to free credit report dot com. I would have seen it coming at me like an atom bomb. They'd monitor my credit and give me email alerts, so I wouldn't end up selling fish to tourists in tee shirts.
So the question for free credit report dot com is: Why do I have to feel like a schmuck if I want to sell fish to tourists in tee shirts? How come waiter or waitress is not considered a legitimate profession? If these people are such low-lifes or losers, what does it say about the people that rely on them to serve them food?

We have an image problem in our culture, and we no longer feel that people should have a service profession as their career. We're infatuated with career, and everybody has to be something when they grow up, and make a name for themselves. It's along the same lines as the comparison between renting and owning a home; renters suck and are worthless if you were wondering.
But we have an increasingly stricter template to choose careers from. They say the immigration problem is driven by the amount of jobs that are available that Americans don't want.
Why don't Americans want certain jobs? What's wrong with being a landscaper? A dishwasher? A house cleaner?
There's more to this, including the hierarchy we follow and the amount of influence money has on our culture (and I'm especially brief because I'm strapped for time but am making a concerted effort to maintain a daily rhetoric). But we don't allow people to be happy with 'bottom-rung' jobs or even feel useful in society if they maintain these positions. We hold doctors and lawyers and CEOs and athletes with the highest regard, and it shows with the amount of money paid to each of these people.

But why do people bitch about teachers getting "summer's off" but say nothing about athletes whose season lasts 5 months?