Posted on 04/20/2017 12:55:11 PM PDT by LoneStarGI
No joke. Did tax dollars pay for this journey into the obvious?
He wants to get debt free, thanks Dave Ramsey, with a second part time job, 35 bucks an hour to drive or 40 bucks an hour to pull a wrench.
Not to many kids like that around like that any more. I offered to send him to any school he could get into, he told me he wasn't a scholar.
I wish your son the best of Luck.
Yours too. We raised good men.
Buckeye McFrog wrote: “Flip side of that coin is that too many hiring managers have been brainwashed into believing you NEED a degree to do their job. Fact of the matter is, in the vast majority of cases you do not.”
The “fact of the matter” is hiring managers cannot use aptitude tests for fear of discrimination suits so they require a college degree.
I think he inherited from his Great Grandfather. When he was a young kid, 5, he used to drag my daughter into the garage and change all of the tires on a car I was rebuilding.
Before the depression my Grandfather started taking auto repair classes at Utah Trades, 1926. The Mine closed in 1928 and he worked through the depression.
Exactly. I took a temp summer job during college working construction at a new warehouse. About 15-20 of us started out on Monday morning. About half didn’t come back from lunch. The next morning 3 showed up. By Friday it was me and one other guy. They started me out doing simple tasks, but as I showed my worth, they gave me a set of plans and told me to go install a conveyor system.
One of my high school friends started at McDonald’s as a burger flipper. When he showed his worth, they advanced him until he is now the store manager. I have another friend who started out in high school as a bag boy at Kroger. He worked his way up to manager.
If you still live at home with mom and dad, call a plumber or electrician or cabinet maker and offer to work for free if they will teach you a trade.
Personally I had very little help directing me into a career. Much is my own fault, the fault of lousy parents, and the education system. Now, here in BC, the major focus IS on career transition, so there is much less excuse for the new generation.
Some may disagree but I just shake my heads over parents who pay for the cell phones of their teens. If the teen wants a damn phone, they can pay for it themselves. I had to pay for the things I wanted.
The liberal arts degree is sort of the conservative revenge on liberals.
So true!
Sounds like my neighbors. A 20 year-old failure to launch son, with a girlfriend and a drug problem.
Yet it’s always the dad outside who’s mowing the lawn and washing the cars. I guess the weed doesn’t smoke itself.
“This goes back to the mistake of telling all these kids that everyone ‘needed’ a college education to get by.”
EVERY student in public education is brainwashed into that belief, even students who do not have the intellect to get through high school.
Pampers. When you raise the new generations and teach them from birth that not only is it perfectly acceptable to pee on themselves, but it is strongly encouraged so their young parents don’t have to get out of bed to change diapers, you end up precisely with our millennial generation. Those raised in cloth diapers learned there is a downside to the lack of self control. Those raised in Pampers were not afforded that early education.
Why don’t they just get one of those “Easy” buttons from Staples?
Launching into adulthood has been tricky, he said.
Oh grow up.
Anything is hard if you don’t try.
I can't find what "degrees" these two have.
Are they valuable? In demand fields?
Or a BA or fgs a MASTERS in something worthless?
What will you do with a bachelors in Poli-Sci?
In college, the only people I knew who got Poli-sci degrees went to law school.
Even in the 80s it would have been useless by itself.
Really, what paying "job" could you even expect to get?
George Soros is hiring in large numbers and paying well. You don't even need a high school diploma.
All you have to do is violently disrupt meetings, smash things, and beat up people his agitators point to. They'll even supply you with the weighted bats, M-80s, and signs for free. (It is helpful to you if you bring your own mask and helmet)
As an added bonus you can still live in your Mommy's basement, play your video games, hang out with your buds all day, smoke weed or do dope without any danger of getting a drug test from your employer, and collect welfare or SSI.
I'd say life is pretty cushy for a lot of Millennials if they have the proper "values".
Yes! Yes, yes, YES! I’ve been saying this since I was in college myself, lo these many years ago.
And now, many employers won’t even meet with a job applicant until his resume is put through a computer to scan for the “proper” words and phrases.
SMH
Regards,
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