Posted on 07/31/2013 7:37:13 PM PDT by chessplayer
Yesterday on his show, Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto dedicated his daily “common sense” segment to the good old days when kids (AND ADULTS) were grateful for any job they could find. Remember when any job was a good job? I do. I remember my first real job as a restaurant hostess. The day I got hired, I was the happiest kid in the world. I made minimum wage and even though I bussed tables, the waiters rarely split their tips with me. But guess what? I didn’t care because I had a job and worked hard anyway.
Any job is honest work..if you are in need of money.
Not me. Any job when you’re in High School. My first jobs were both under-the-table jobs. One working for my shop teacher (summers) doing construction, and the other as cowboy on a cattle ranch owned by a friend of my father. Both prepared me well for later life.
Ah, the good old days. When you graduated from high school or college and assumed you had to get a job and work for a living. Now the super-charged Welfare / Nanny State has conditioned the young to expect to live off the public teet for a while, working part time in some “community service” job and spending the rest of their time sitting around and smoking pot.
Remember when kids could actually find an honest job?
I shoveled chicken poop by the ton, pushed lawnmowers, pulled weeds, whatever needed done, whatever the pay..
Way too many Americans have forgotten about the concept of an “entry level” job. One where you aren’t expected to earn enough to live a nice, middle class existence. One where you had to prove yourself and if you did, you would advance to a higher level and make more money. Now a lot of the young and even a bunch of lazy, middle-aged layabouts angrily proclaimt that they aren’t taking a job that doesn’t pay them at least $15 or $20 per hour with benefits. Then they sit on their arses on the public teet collecting Wefare or other relief expecting someone to knock on their door and beg them to take a dream job.
I handled tens of thousands of bales of hay, shoveled every type of farm animal sh!t there is, bagged fertilizer ‘til I had no fingerprints. All for under $1.50/ hour.
but, I also had the coolest car in school(except for the rich kid who had a Jag).
While the jocks were looking at each other in the locker room, I was earning money and seeing how many cheerleaders I could fit into a ‘72 Mach One
“Now some FReepers will put down and insult an adult if they work at McDonald’s.”
Name that FReeper or are you speaking of yourself?
We need to change the slogan, “Buy American” to “Hire American”......
I fear what has happened is that adults have taken those jobs. I totally get that and don’t down those folks at all. I wouldn’t necessarily be excited, but if need be I would do the same.
I do have huge issues with the yahoos in NY wanting $15 an hour and the ability to unionize. They knew what the job paid when they took it. Maybe it is desperation...or maybe by design (my guess).
A lot of the kids around here are mowing lawns and cleaning houses. Or working for the local farmers. Sadly, that doesn’t give them any work history.
True.
I was working as a welder by the time I was 16.
My first job was a go fer and washing cars at a dealership. Then I’d work in my Dad’s warehouse during semester breaks. Nothing fancy, but at least I made some $$$.
My son,who just finished his freshman year at Texas A&M working on an economics degree, applied to over twenty places for summer work and he only got 2 interviews. He was not qualified for one job: intern at church.
The other one was Subway. They told him he wasn’t qualified because he had never had a job. We couldn’t believe it.
My son thought he wouldn’t be able to do anything over the summer, and his plan was to get a job back at A&M at the student store a few hours a week.
But then, my husband’s company needed someone to enter data in a database, and they hired my son. It’s been great experience. He can do the work over the internet, so they want him to continue working back at college. My son is now an expert on Best Buy appliances and cell phones.
The only kids that have an easy time getting jobs are the ones that are lifeguard trained.
Otherwise, the kids need connections.
I also think amusement parks still hire kids. My son doesn’t have a car for the summer, and the local amusement park is just too far away for him to work.
Neil Cavuto was a hostess?
Having a job is great and all, but I draw the line at cross dressing.
“Now some FReepers will put down and insult an adult if they work at McDonald’s.”
Name that FReeper or are you speaking of yourself?
Take a look at the thread about striking McDonalds employees. In the picture there was an adult employee. More than a few FReepers put the man down and ridiculed the man for working a “kids” job. Idiot.
Around here (Philly area-suburbs) I see very few teens/20’s working at what I’d call “entry level” or pick-up type jobs.
Trees, landscaping & lawns are mostly done by crews (usually Mexican/Portuguese); local, small retail stores & fast food now tend to have middle-aged women at the grills & cash registers (Chick-fil-A is an exception); servers at the sit-down restaurants are also skewing older.
The amusement parks and the shore kiosks do still have a lot of teens working, but virtually ALL of them are Russian. (I have heard that the owners pool together to bring a bunch of kids over, set them up 4 or 5 to a room at hotel/motel dives, pay them next to nothing, then ship them back home after the season — ???)
Take a look at the thread about striking McDonalds employees. In the picture there was an adult employee. More than a few FReepers put the man down and ridiculed the man for working a “kids” job. Idiot.”
Point for you but name calling is not an attractive character trait.
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