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There's No Place Like Home: 31.5% of SF Millennials Live With Their Parents, Study Shows
NBC Bay Area ^ | 3/21 | Kavin Mistry

Posted on 03/21/2017 10:05:31 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: nickcarraway

18 bucks an hour in the bay area is crap. What is a “millenial’s” age? 25? I was making 18 an hour as a welder arou d that age going through college. Almost 20 years ago. Wages stink and haven’t raised at all whe cost of living has easily doubled. And in the bay are shot up 5 to 10 fold. Any of you with young adult offspring at home here is my advise. Go to Radio Shack and get them a robotics learning kit. Learn PLCs and motion control. Robots are going to be taking all the entry level jobs and there aren’t many who know what they’re doing. I pay my PLC guy $110 an hour for his services.

Too bad their educations aren’t guaranteed. They have been ripped off and lied to their whole lives. The guy that was a gear head and became a mechanic is going to be lot more succesful then the guy who got a masters in art history.


21 posted on 03/22/2017 1:38:46 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Flinging poo is not a valid argument)
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To: luckystarmom

San Jose? I don’t know what an economics degree is good for. Send your son to the local SJCC trade school for a few semesters and learn machining. They work with SJ state which has a great industrial engineering program. (I chose Fresno but anyway...) there are tons of entry level machinist positions that will turn in to very lucrative positions after 4 or 5 years. Contrary to popular belief manufacturing is far from dead in the USA. Problem is its so damned expensive to live in that area. My two cents as a former aircraft engineer that started a machine shop.


22 posted on 03/22/2017 1:44:40 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Flinging poo is not a valid argument)
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To: koalkracker1981

If you are a machinist or fabricator that knows PLCs or motion control you would never have to worry about a job and could live anywhere you want.


23 posted on 03/22/2017 1:47:15 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Flinging poo is not a valid argument)
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To: olivia3boys

Can a recent grad scrape up enough money for an apartment and related expenses moving out of town? Relocation expenses are a thing of the past especially for an entry level position.


24 posted on 03/22/2017 1:49:35 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Flinging poo is not a valid argument)
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To: luckystarmom

Why is your son doing anything wrong??

In many parts of the world, by age 30, there are NO more job prospects, for the rest of your life. USA has been importing this 3rd world culture here.

Try sales, salesmen never starve. Or learn a trade, eg auto mechanic, then work to own your own shop. That is better than any corporate job with no growth prospects.

Finally, Economics Majors are paid liars, usually in a political position. Learn those skillsets. Learn to lie and learn politics, or else flip burgers. Nobody said it would be easy.


25 posted on 03/22/2017 1:57:10 AM PDT by TheNext
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To: nickcarraway

When we visualize the SF snowflake as living in his Mom’s basement, we’re right.


26 posted on 03/22/2017 2:20:12 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: nickcarraway

Was in my cafeteria yesterday... 5 postings for H1B applicants were hanging....

That is the wave... Contract with big outsourcing consulting firms... to avoid benefit costs and lower salaries... We dug our own grave.


27 posted on 03/22/2017 3:11:39 AM PDT by PigRigger
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To: PigRigger

Should add,was era marked for termination last December... Trained my replacement... Found another position... In probationary period... Still may be let go... Tech is no longer American support.

Thank God I was frugal and saved... Our children are in for a world of hurt....


28 posted on 03/22/2017 3:14:20 AM PDT by PigRigger
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To: luckystarmom

Heck, my son and his wife and two toddlers have been living with us for two years and possibly one more! Long story, but he finally found a good paying job, but wife’s college debts (son was in the navy so his college loans are paid), and doctor bills for the kids put them in the red. There’s light at the end of the tunnel though. It took son several years after he graduated and several low-paying jobs to find the job he has. He’s 33. At least your son is younger with no family to support. Hopefully, times are improving with a president who knows what it’s like to earn an honest dollar and who wants the US to be prosperous again. Good luck to your son. I hope he lines up something soon!


29 posted on 03/22/2017 3:28:15 AM PDT by sneakers (It's DEMOCRAT - and not DemocratIC. There's nothing Democratic about the DEMOCRAT party)
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To: nickcarraway
Our son lives at home. He's on scholarship to a major university. He studies to keep the grades above the required level for a near full tuition ride. The plan is to get a major degree with absolutely no debt. As long as he contributes at home >without us having to ask<, he's welcome to stay. He's looking for work at well and now has a strong lead, but the priority is acing his grades to keep this really excellent scholarship. We'll use the college savings for something else at the end of 4 years.

No debt with a viable degree is the plan. We are praying.

30 posted on 03/22/2017 3:30:43 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: luckystarmom

Tell me about it. Both of mine, with degrees in Business. . . are Security Guards. . . .


31 posted on 03/22/2017 4:02:25 AM PDT by Salgak (You're in Strange Hands with Tom Stranger. . . .)
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To: nickcarraway
I had two millennials. They both went to the local commuter university and tuition is reasonable in Canada so, no student debt to speak of. One MSc Mechanical Engineer, one BSc Nursing. They both got jobs in their fields right out of university. Ironically, they both commute to the US to work every day.

The engineer bought a duplex and lives in it. The nurse has been on her own but is now living with her mother to save money for med school. The moral of the story is that there is a great demand and lots of jobs for nurses and engineers in the US.

32 posted on 03/22/2017 4:03:03 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian (We live in interesting times)
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To: nickcarraway

economy sucks.


33 posted on 03/22/2017 4:03:28 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Jmouse007

Thank you. I have had it up to here with these self righteous Freepers calling our kids lazy and crowing about what they did as 18 year olds to support themselves. It was a completely different world then than now. The economy today sucks and people with college degrees are taking jobs as servers to survive.


34 posted on 03/22/2017 4:05:46 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Fai Mao

Managing a supermarket is difficult, if your daily routine can be upset by low-paid workers not showing up. A friend took a steep pay cut to leave a job like that; completely ruined any type of planning for weekends, vacations, etc.


35 posted on 03/22/2017 4:05:53 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: luckystarmom

If he’s happy and good at his job, he’ll get promoted! As someone said, he may have found his career. I must say that all the employees I’ve dealt with at WFs have been great.


36 posted on 03/22/2017 4:37:59 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: yldstrk

Believe me, college graduates in the 70s worked tables too despite freeper bragging. I graduated in the mid-70s during a bad recession.


37 posted on 03/22/2017 4:39:29 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: miss marmelstein

Here is the difference: I put myself through law school. Cost: $750.00 a semester, books $500. I worked PART TIME as a hostess at a restaurant, shared a house in the ghetto with a classmate, had a used and paid for car, insurance and never went hungry. Parents gave me $10.00 a week to help, grandmother gave me $100 a month for one year to help. When I graduated, I owed $5,000. It was a different world. I never went on spring break, not once. But at the same time, had fun


38 posted on 03/22/2017 5:04:16 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Organic Panic

Send him to law school. The stuff you learn there is invaluable, whether you practice or not. 50% of lawyers don’t practice, but they can do ANYTHING they want, start businesses, be executives, etc.


39 posted on 03/22/2017 5:07:11 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: nickcarraway

Mom’s basement is getting crowded but the good side here is that eventually they will become non voters as they are not made of the stuff that fights adversity and they will find going to war with Arnold in cyberspace very satisfying.


40 posted on 03/22/2017 5:09:11 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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