I wouldn’t take this too seriously; I, myself, said things like “I’ll never touch poop with my hands’, and ‘I’ll never catch vomit to check for blood’...and then I became a mother.
Your nephew may find that one day he’ll be glad to be a sanitaion engineer. :-)
My unemployed husband would gladly take a job collecting trash. He doesn’t have a house (or himself) to support, so he doesn’t feel a ‘need’ apparently.
I went to our local grocery store asking for at least part time work. She said I was about the 10th person THAT DAY that was over 30 she had to turn away. Most had management or technical experience.
I served on jury duty with a young woman who had a degree in graphic design and she is on food stamps.
Your nephew better wake up. Things aren’t getting better.
Is there a reason your nephew can’t sleep in house?
It’s been my experience that when people say they would never do job “x,” they probably are qualified to get hired for it anyway.
Hopefully he mans-up. I have a very good white-collar professional job and career. But I have also worked as “strong-backed weak-minded labor” in landscaping, stocking retail shelves, pumping gas (full serve, including cleaning the public restrooms)... In short, pride is a good thing, but pride in putting food on your family’s table takes precedence over “I would never do X.” If need be, I’d do any job (save traitor) to provide for my family.
I have a niece just like that. She’s living off her parents in another part of the country. Claims she can’t find a job after 7 months. On her facebook she’s always partying. She has said there are certain jobs she just won’t do. Like working at McD’s...ect. Her father says he’s not going to support her anymore, but, the mom still is. That won’t help her IMHO. Not my kid they can do what they want but, this young lady is 22 years old. Time to cut the cord. She’ll get a job pretty quickly if no one is supporting her.
Tough situation, all around.
He isn’t hungry enough.
Nice tough ‘love’ story.
I enjoyed it.
A good garbage man is better than a poor surgeon.
I always thought mob ties were needed in order to get the trash pick-up gig.
With the economy what it is, I ask myself occasionally, “Which of my eight adult children would I allow to move back in with me?”
My son’s very profitable pharmaceutical company is about to fire 33 of its 100 chemists. He’s been with them 20 years, but is still worried.
Another son might be caught in Rendell’s slashing of the PA state budget. His department has to “downsize” 27% by the end of the year.
These are guys with Master’s Degrees in highly specialized work.
My daughter’s husband’s work week in IT has been cut back to 3 days a week. He has already lost all benefits.
Obama’s hope and change is killing the middle class.
But maybe that was the Dem plan all along.
When things are this bad in the economy my usual tough love with relatives is different in this depression.
I figure we might have to team up to muddle through this phase of American life and we bought property like that just in case. That is what families are for - the real safety net. We don’t have any blood suckers, and if we did, I would treat them differently.
I’ll help people in my family who need it to get over this hump in the economy. As long as I have this property, my relatives won’t be on the streets or in the driveway... white collar or blue collar...no matter to me. They were all economically independent before the depression.
Have him stand on your front lawn next garbage day—maybe they’ll haul him away.
Garbage collectors earn:
$80,000 in New York City. 35,000 in Pensacola Florida.
Chicagoland garbage man can earn 65,000 to 80,000
.........and let’s not forget bennies.
My first job was on the wash rack at a chickenfeed factory when I was 14. I lied that I was 18. You have no idea. Glad to have it.
I’m working right now (something I’m very grateful for.) If I were to lose my job tomorrow and that was all I could find, I would do it in a heartbeat.