Posted on 01/10/2024 6:28:50 PM PST by Red Badger
That was not true 50 years ago, too......................
“when I was done, I could have taken a clerk typist or office worker job and got my foot in the door.”
In high school I took Personal Typing as an elective, and then I did exactly what you said. My typing speed got my foot in the door in some top companies, and then I moved up quickly.
My required Trig, Chemistry, Latin, etc., for NY Regents probably didn’t harm me, but the Typing course got me jobs.
The job I had was low wage, no better than Walmart, but I bought a house with it. It just took some detective work at the tax office and some negotiation with the owner.
The key is basically to go where houses are cheap, and don't break the budget on nonsense, luxuries, and bad habits.
There are plenty of places in the US where this is still possible, but people tend to box themselves in to where they were born and raised, where their relatives are, etc. They don't shop for housing the way they would shop for a used car -- sensibly, with an eye for utility and low maintenance. Look for a car in good shape with an elderly owner ready to let go of it, and don't think it's the only car you'll ever have -- look for a house pretty much the same way.
Joe Biden, jacking off in mid air??
Can’t get any other impression of that video.
The A$$hole in chief, all grins but no mind.
Not really. My first couple of years out of college as a full-time worker, I had a roommate. All of my friends did that. Entry-level wages weren’t great, but it was incentive to keep pushing into higher salary brackets. It took patience and perseverance which is something much of GenZ seems to be lacking.
Until about 1990 overtime was available in retail work.
When the 1990 recession hit, retail stores put an end to overtime.
The solution is to work more hours. Instead of having a person needing to have two jobs, the 40-hour overtime limit (and PPACA coverage mandate for over 30 hours a week) should be abolished for jobs in facilities that collect sales tax.
The overtime limit for a person should be based on their rent (as last reported to the employer) and the applicable minumum wage.
The weekly overtime threshold override might be rent computed on a weekly basis/minimum wage+20.
If the rent is $1500/month and the minimum wage is $10/hour, the weekly rent would be $350 and the weekly overtime threshold override would be 55 hours a week.
The 40-hour overtime threshold was meant to cut the Great Depression unemployment rate to make FDR look good, but it has led to retail worker poverty.
Retail workers used to work much longer hours in the past. In the 1920s, it might have been 60 hours a week.
Nurses might get by on 40 hours a week, but they spend several years studying, had to pay tuition, and weren’t paid for studying at the time.
My Gen Z friends as well as the millennials, mostly do very well with the skills they picked up from family. Plumbing, carpentry, roofing, cooking, car repair (one with a double-digit IQ who's virtually illiterate but a blooming genius at engine repair). And quite a few of them are making real good money with computer skills. Everybody can do something. The only public ed worth the taxes is probably vocational ed.
Well said.
It’s also unfair that our generation is being blamed.
It’s the fault of our generation’s politicians, and how they’ve manipulated.
“The key is basically to go where houses are cheap”
Those places are getting rarer.
The ones I found this year are York, Pennsylvania and Rockford & Peoria, Illinois.
I was taking to a man who said Buffalo, NY was seeing much higher prices. A few minutes later I saw a Free Republic post saying that.
Excellent point: What will SHE DO about it?
This was the exact question my elders put to me each and every SINGLE time I complained about something, or was faced with a sudden , daunting problem. It required me to use my mind and take responsibility for my life. To improve her situation, which is not unlike that of most young adults for pretty much all of history, she must either a.) work really hard, and develop skills that will pay her better wages, or b.) accept a life of lower income and roommates. Either approach is just fine; she just needs to choose one, and then act on that decision. (Not commenting on the crazy alternative of marrying a solid provider and raising a family with him...)
For Peoria:
stained glass in a $214,000 house:
https://ap.rdcpix.com/e1c4da9eda1c722c2014dce3cc3e53c9l-m180435278od-w640_h480_x2.webp?w=640&q=75
https://ap.rdcpix.com/e1c4da9eda1c722c2014dce3cc3e53c9l-m3646662511od-w640_h480_x2.webp?w=640&q=75
affordable houses:
https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/1616-W-Barker-Ave_Peoria_IL_61606_M70840-48249
https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/1811-W-High-St_Peoria_IL_61606_M72091-32348
This one has been sold:
https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/1040-Auburn-St_Rockford_IL_61103_M87599-49286
What she most likely doesn't get is that we have too many people on the dole. Too many give aways. Too many illegals. Too many crooks. Too much inefficiency in gooberment
Gooberment needs to be starved and forced to do more with less. If a GS-13 army program manager can steal $100,000,000 and it isn't missed the program has too much money.
No, she doesn't get it but at least she sees a problem.
BTW, I never just worked or showed up 40 hours a week. When I worked six ten hour days a week in construction I asked for the job of greasing and servicing the equipment after work. When I got my first salaried job Dad said I wasn't making minimum wage I worked so many hours. Working hard , long, well and smart will get you noticed but it won't get you to the board room though.
You'll never get it. Things are different from when you were growing up even if you refuse to believe it. In the 1970's, kids go on their own for "minimum wage" and afford a car and an apartment. What you fail to see is inflation for the last 50 years. Today young people are in negative territory.
That time is now and the place is PA. We have second hand stores (I use the term loosely, they are often yards) where you can easily furnish an entire apartment for a few hundred dollars. People are desperate to get rid of "stuff." The only things I wouldn't touch secondhand would be furnishings with fabric -- sofas, chairs, mattresses, carpeting. When I feel like buying furnishings it's a glorious romp through Facebook marketplace, "within 20 miles." Some of that stuff is absolute treasure! Old tools, silverware, antiques, book cases, all dirt cheap.
She feels she is entitled to work 40 hours a week and live as well as her parents not knowing how difficult it was for her grandparents to make ends meet because of LBJ, Jimmah Cartuh, et. al.
Well done, FRiend!
IMHO, free men (and women) take full responsibility for their actions.
That is a citizen.
Non-citizens should not have influence over other’s lives.
The founders considered giving voting privilege only to property owners based on this concept.
Bingo. I changed jobs 4 times in 35 years. Each time for the better because the previous job became a dead end or I saw that the company was heading toward a brick wall at full speed. But along the way, I had to live very frugally.
What a lot of young people lack is patience, discipline and self confidence.
As for that Walmartian ranting on video...
Walmart will pay 100% of your college tuition. It won’t be Harvard, but that’s a plus.
Don’t expect Walmart to pay enough for living expenses if you’re living somewhere expensive.
But they do pay for education and that might help you find a better job.
(She sounds a bit stressed, Walmart will do that. See “People of Walmart” videos.)
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