Right, which is why you won’t even give us a chance. I have a degree, worked hard, actually paid the darn thing off. I’m really starting to get tired of looking for work and getting turned down.
Walk a mile in our shoes, and then see if you feel we’re the entitlement generation. You’ve had many, many opportunities that aren’t even going to be available for us.
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
Thank you.
I took the approach of not being greedy, and am retiring early, and your saying I am not giving a chance? I am leaving so a younger person can have the opportunity. How hypocritical is that?
I absolutly stand by my claim that yours is the "entitlement generation". Very few of these kids want to pay their dues, wanting promotions and opportunites, for no reasons. In my early days, working 50-70 hours was the rule to help get ahead. The young now value their down time too much to put in that effort. And when I do have them work OT, it is with displeasure. Lastly, the quality of work has seems to be less for the younger workforce. I have seen college graduates who almost appear illiterate, but want to be the next supervisor.
If you want another 50 examples Freepmail me I will bend your ear like no other.
... and there are many more opportunities that didn't even exist as short as 5 years ago.
More out of curiousity than anything else, I have two questions if you care to indulge me:
- What is your degree? (i.e., is it in a marketable field?)
- Have you approached the military (which seems to always need talented people in many, many disciplines)?
What is your degree?
Go flip a burger so at least you will be paying for my Social Security.
At 75 I want to collect for at least another 15 years.
>>I have a degree, worked hard, actually paid the darn thing off.
A few years ago I was on a jury with a physics professor from UC Irvine. During the trial he and I had lunch together and he articulated his utter disgust and dismay at the amount and degree of sophisticated cheating he found going on.
He said the students saw nothing wrong with their actions; that they justified their behavior with rationalizations — “everybody does it”, “it’s what you have to do to survive”.
So you can thank them, and those with their attitude, for the perception that your “degree” is worthless.
>>you won’t even give us a chance.
Give?
Uhuh. There it is.
Your local military recruiter not hiring?
Don’t be so sure of all those “opportunities” we had that you don’t...
Life isn’t easy and hasn’t been.
Virtually all of the successful people I know started and built their own businesses and didn’t depend on others for “jobs”.