Posted on 04/20/2017 12:55:11 PM PDT by LoneStarGI
By his twenties, Kyle Kaylor imagined he would be living on his own, nearing a college degree, and on his way to a job that fulfilled him.
Instead, at 21, he found himself out of school, living with his parents, and "stuck" working as a manager at a fast food restaurant scraping to make hand-to-mouth.
Launching into adulthood has been tricky, he said.
"It became too difficult financially to be in school and not working," says Kaylor, who dropped out of Lincoln Christian University, in Illinois, after one semester because of a money crunch. "And without schooling, you can't get a job that you can survive on, so I had to move back home," he said.
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Got many friends who are already master tradesmen and making a very comfortable living. They don’t spend extravagantly but are very happy and most have spouses with couple kids.
Living in vans down by the river?
-PJ
What is so bad about being a fast food restaurant manager at age 21? That is better than going into debt for a Marxist, useless, liberal arts degree.
Ping!
I just hired a guy to paint the interior of my house. First guy wanted $5k. I almost had a heart attack. Lol. Guy I hired i found through a friend and he was booked for 2 months. If I could wait he would get to me. He’s coming Monday.
An electrician just pulled out my fluorescents and put in canned lights in my kitchen and replaced some other lights and fans for me. $500 for a days work.
The work is out there. And it seems they’re making pretty good money to me.
They can’t handle the cards that have been dealt to them, here are some examples:
MSNBC ‘Counter-Terrorism Analyst’ Calls for ISIS Bombing of Trump Property
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Poor Role Models
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I think millennials are simply too lazy.
Ive done probably 100 days of college. Thats it. School simply isn’t for me.
I started my own commercial pool company about 14 years ago. Ive been making 6 figures for most of those years. If you put in some good old fashioned hard work and attention to customer service you can make a great living. Just gotta get off your ass and put yourself out there...........
Son has CDL and has been in trucking and delivery since 18. Makes almost 45K in a small excavating company.
Waiting to hear final offer as for trooper school.
Just put an offer on his first home, a 3 family.
Has a wonderful gf with plans for marriage.
He just turned 22.
No, getting older isn't difficult, growing up is.
When you consider Kerry, Max Cleland and McCain are ex military and prize a$$holes I have to disagree with you
My nephew is 20, in college, and gets good grades, but really doesn’t know what he wants to do. I’m getting a bit concerned about him, because he’s always had everything handed to him, and his mother is the stereotypical helicopter parent. He’s smart, personable, and a good kid, but as my brother (his uncle) put it, “He doesn’t know how to work.” I think it would do him good to have to make a living on his own, working with his hands, but I don’t know whether his parents would let him sink or swim.
I think a lot people overlook the trades because they assume it’s dead end work, and don’t realize that a smart, motivated guy (or gal) can parlay experience in the trades into an upper level job in the industry or into starting one’s own business.
I was in a similar dead-end job at 21.
Marriage and the birth of a child did a whole lot
to focus and motivate me.
Oldest daughter is 28. She and her husband make about 110K Both work in their fields.
Have their own first home, and expecting their first child.
Most aren't what you'd call "good" jobs, but the work is there. A lot of the jobs I've been offered have decent potential for moving up the chain with time and performance. My impression is that more employers are willing to give people a shot and see how they work out -- I definitely didn't get the same vibe last year. I know a few people who graduated with me said they wouldn't work for less than 60k starting...Some of them have achieved that, the others I lost track of.
Some of this is due to the unintended consequences of the deductibility of mortgage payments on income taxes. That has encouraged Americans to put an outsized portion of their assets into their housing. Thus your average family of four has a crazy-big house for just the parents once the kiddos supposedly launch. The easiest and cheapest way by far to subsidize them is to just let them camp in a couple of the many spare bedrooms.
The trouble is that that solution helps to keep the kiddos subservient and relatively helpless.
A degree in what?
Someone who can make a living on a single college degree majored in engineering, accounting or something with real world application, therefore they live and work in the real world and are less likely to be living at home.
Yeah, well, far fewer of those kind then the right kind.
Second daughter after 3 years of missions is finishing nursing school with no debt.
Third daughter has mental illness. Works 30 hours a week in fast food and lives in a basement. Funds herself.
BINGO
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