Because in Apple's mine, what equality is bringing down all salaries to the lowest common denominator, not bringing up salaries. They want to pay the bare minimum, and want to do it while complaining that it's too much
I would add a job that is meaningful sometimes, and lacking other times. Good enough to stay, but sometimes you just need to have something in the background to keep from going crazy.
To add, in the US, most service providers will not let a device on their network until it has gone through FCC approval. You can get around this by buying a cell module, which has gone through approval, but most of those are data only last I looked.