Posted on 06/21/2018 2:19:46 PM PDT by rickmichaels
So what do all these millennials plan to do to improve their future prospects? Band together and vote for Democrats?
“Social Security will go bust”
It won’t go bust since it will still take in about $800 billion/year in tax revenue by federal law.
Benefits will just get reduced.
Yep. To the young whipper snapper complaining who can’t find a job unless they can start at the top I say “Start at the bottom and keep paying into social security so I can keep getting a check. But don’t worry. I won’t be drawing much longer.”
So what do all these millennials plan to do to improve their future prospects? Band together and vote for Democrats?
I will be 69 next month. I am still working, because I want to. Pulling down 80K annually doing part-time work. I do not need to work, but it gives me structure and I still have enough free time to do what I want.
My two went to Tech college. They are gainfully employed and not living in my basement.
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Not only are they gainfully employed, they can probably work anywhere they want, have steady employment, and can perhaps eventually start their own business. Sounds like they are on a good track.
No body said it was going to be easy. Get with it if you want to succeed.
Also, there is no job that is beneath your perceived status.
Furthermore, just because you went to college and graduated doesn't mean that you know anything. Anything at all!
“Join the Nav,CG or the AF ,learn a trade and let the GI Bill pay for training if you even need it for a firm to pick you up!”
One of our grandson’s is a California poster boy. 6’ 180# of muscle, a good but not great athlete, blue eyed and very white.
In California, he is basically $crewed out of getting into a California college/university as he has made C’s in his non STEM classes. He has straight A’s in his STEM classes and was on in the Math Olympics every year in his middle school.
He is the family ET and on the block he lives on. He taught me in about an hour how really use an android tablet and phone. It only took about half an hour to help me get on board with my first Chromebook. He showed his former middle school how to print with Chromebooks via the cloud. He enabled me to do the same in minutes.
I have suggested that in his Senior year at a good private school to load up on Stem classes and Spanish classes.
Then, he can join the Navy or Air Force for one of their crypto/intel programs to merge with his Spanish knowledge. We will be fighting an intel war with the South of the Border elites for decades.
Then, after 4 years with a TS clearance, he can get a job with a private security firm that is used by our intel people. Or he can stay in the military to complete his 20 and then retire and be debt free.
Your comment reminded me of this cartoon - my husband and I had it on our refrigerator when our son was at the age that put him right in the middle of the burgeoning video gaming industry.
My oldest granddaughter just got her CPA and makes a good living. Her brother just joined the USAF and is training to become an F-15 mechanic. Their younger brother is in college and a major in business entrepreunership. Not a weeper in the bunch. Whiners whine.
Yes. All those Burnie lovin' idiots have been trained to transfer all failures of their own upon others while trying their best to rob their fellow citizens.
Pursue a field which you enjoy, which is in demand and that you are scholastically and personally able to master. Work hard and make your own responsible choices.
Why not Army or Marines? Just curious.
Spanish is good to know, but the military chooses the language they want you to learn if you go into languages. Spanish is a very low priority as so many already know it.
Computers are the way to go in the military. They need computer security bigly.
Everything will turn out fine. Millennial weenies can move into the baby boomers’ houses after they die, suck the marrow out of grandpa’s bones and sell Che t-shirts at yard sales.
Other Millennial kids look at me incredulously when I tell them that even McDonald's type jobs were tough to come by when I entered the workforce at the glut of the baby boom (1973).
In fact, I was in hog heaven when I landed my first job on a factory night shift which paid $2.10/hour, 25 cents over what was then the minimum wage.
Then I tell them that this and another part-time job (which paid a whole $2.50 per hour) paid my tuition and living expenses. Of course this type of schedule left me no time to get drunk or laid, which seems to be top priorities of college kids these days.
He’s wicked awake.
Understands classroom politics.
He’ll be just fine.
THanks though.
He’s there. Thanks. :)
“Not true. The baby boomer paid higher SS taxes to fund the greatest generations SS benefits since it is a pay as you go system. The greatest generation received far more than they paid in but that isnt sustainable for the baby boom generations benefits. This is one area where the greatest generation wasnt really all that great.”
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You skipped an entire generation in your dissertation.
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It wasn’t the boomers. It was well before that. It was Wilson, the creation of the Fed, it was abolishing the gold standard. It was FDR and his socialist nanny state.
But since no one studies history, they have to blame it on someone. And by doing nothing, they also have themselves to blame.
Heh... a friend’s younger kid was bein goaded to go to college, instead he went straight into construction and related work (demolition is so much fun at that age), and during the past month moved into his first apartment and has never been happier. The older kid finished college more or less a couple years early, and appears to be working on her MRS, because whatever she’s doing for income, it ain’t related to her degree.
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