There, I pinged him. In another post.
Yes, I’ve seen a lot of kids want a lot of money for babysitting. It made it so between the price of dinner and the babysitter, It wasn’t worth it to go out. Luckily I knew some kids that weren’t very greedy and they would take five dollars an hour. Heck, why should babysitting pay the same or more than minimum-wage? It’s an easy job.
Oh well, I agree not only will they not want to do any work, the one a lot of money for it, plus they’ll want their schedule breaks, and you’ll have to worry about getting sued if they hurt themselves!
My husband was involved with hiring had a power plant for a while. It was unbelievable the resumes they got, people with no experience wanting to make all this money. And once they got the job they were lazy! They weren’t in the least bit grateful but felt entitled.
OK, I’m depressing myself with this subject :-)
I’m just hoping there’s enough of us older folks around when things fall apart, otherwise the young ones will just be looking to the government to help them. Once they figure out that’s not happening, they might look around and see who’s doing OK for themselves and realize we have the answer.
If we’re doing OK for ourselves… We never know. I’ll we can do is prep and hope. Not everyone will have the fortitude to make it through. But I think those of you that have been through hard times will be able to teach the rest of us.
When my girls were of babysitting age, they were hesitant about charging parents, so I suggested that they ask what the parent was in the habit of paying and accepting that amount and if they thought it was not enough, declining to work for them again. This avoided the embarrassment of stating a fee. Apparently my great grand daughter follows much the same pattern as she mentioned several different parents and different fees.
I think I have made my chore of cleaning up storm debris a little easier. I gave myself an early mother’s day and 87th birthday gift and purchased a battery operated 40 volt Black and Decker chain saw. I think it is similar to one Windflier recommended in an earlier post. I hope so as I couldn’t seem to find the post that he discussed it in.
Anyway, I have had a good time with it so far, cutting up larger limbs and brush to make them more manageable.