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Nearly 40% of Millennials would take a pay cut to have the freedom to travel the world [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^
| August 6, 2018
| Valerie Bauman
Posted on 08/06/2018 11:12:14 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: LibertarianLiz
I make a lot more than a coffee shop flunky but I am a responsible bill payer and tax slave.
Maybe someday I will get to travel ...
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posted on
08/06/2018 11:21:47 AM PDT
by
wally_bert
(Just call me Angelo or babe.)
To: C19fan
The 29-year-old had practiced energy healing with a shaman in Guatemala and earned a certificate in sustainable agricultural development... In other words, he had no saleable skills.
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posted on
08/06/2018 11:22:59 AM PDT
by
rockrr
( Everything is different now...)
To: C19fan
"energy healing with a shaman in Guatemala" Sure...good work if you can get....probably makes two or three hundred pesos a day.. :)
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posted on
08/06/2018 11:24:26 AM PDT
by
unread
(Joe McCarthy was right.......)
To: C19fan
Maybe it’s a good thing I didn’t have kids.
They would be millennials since I’m a Boomer and there’s no guarantee they wouldn’t fit the mold.
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posted on
08/06/2018 11:24:58 AM PDT
by
Catmom
(We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.)
To: C19fan
I did not know they were not free to travel.
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posted on
08/06/2018 11:26:02 AM PDT
by
the_daug
To: Mears
If freeloading sustainable???
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posted on
08/06/2018 11:26:17 AM PDT
by
RatRipper
(Unindicted co-conspirators: the Mainstream Media and the Democratic Party)
To: BRL
A 40% pay raise gets them to goal much faster. Well those earning less Venezuelans are traveling moreacross the border to Colombia one way. Case in point.
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posted on
08/06/2018 11:26:38 AM PDT
by
tflabo
(Varmints)
To: C19fan
They would take a pay cut if someone else was paying for their travel.
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posted on
08/06/2018 11:27:08 AM PDT
by
Starstruck
(I'm usually sarcastic. Deal with it.)
To: C19fan
Is this a millennial hating website??
I havent read the whole article but the comments seem to think that is a poor way to live, taking a cut in pay while you are young in order to spend more time exploring the world. Surely you weren’t all born already crotchety elders?
You do know that 2000 years ago, the elders mocked the young. Its not that original. And it says more about you than them. If you have so much more experience and thus wisdom, who arent you more understanding of people who dont have as much of either?
Living at home with your parents is not horrible at all. It can make for closer families. Why spend money on an apartment when you can save that for travel, if you are employed or a full time student or both?
My dad, who traveled the world while very young as a life or death option, wanted youthful travel for his kids. At least my travels were voluntary and no one was trying to kill me. My son is now planning his dream semester abroad, working and saving and getting scholarships for it. Living with us instead of paying $1000 a month in an apartment is part of it.
This will be a life-changing experience for him. Do you all want your children behind the counter at fast food or fetching coffee for the corporate boss every day of their 20s? You do understand there isnt a lot of understanding of other countries in the USA. I understood, and truly loved, this country better after living away from it.
Saving for retirement and hunkering down into a work-sleep-work environment can wait a little.
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posted on
08/06/2018 11:27:37 AM PDT
by
Yaelle
To: C19fan
Cool. Just don’t come crying for a handout with your school loans and desire for socialized healthcare.
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posted on
08/06/2018 11:28:46 AM PDT
by
Kozak
(DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
To: antidemoncrat
It reminds of the Hippies who toddled off to India to study under a swami, join an ashram, etc.
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posted on
08/06/2018 11:28:53 AM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: No Socialist
To: Responsibility2nd
Yes, but to work at a Fort Collins, Colorado coffee shop? Who would give that up? Thats crazy man! /s
Maybe the owner of the coffee shop is one of the few left who still drug tests employees!
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posted on
08/06/2018 11:29:31 AM PDT
by
JimRed
( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
To: Bryanw92
They don’t want to grow up. Permanent Peter Pans. Too many parents that covered all of their mistakes and didn’t prepare them for “adulting” as they call it.
To: No Socialist
This is not a new thing. I met a bunch of these folks in Viẹt Nam a few years ago when I travelled on a Sinh Café minibus. Sinh Café caters to "backpackers," a phenomenon that has been with us since the 19th century, anyway. It's rich kids and some not so rich who travel with backpacks through mostly Asia. Many go to university for a year in France then travel for a year then a year at Oxford and maybe after another tour, Madrid. Some, those who are less affluent actually work a bit here and there and get stuck in the life. The ones I met were mostly middle aged and had been doing it for decades. Their families have long since stopped supporting them. Some are living on trust fund money. One was actually a fugitive banker from Mumbai staying the proverbial one step ahead of the law. There was a young Finnish couple that seemed enthusiastic about seeing the world but the older ones were a morose lot. Time is just passing for them with no high points and all the new and exciting exotic places are just peeling wallpaper now.
To: wally_bert
I make a lot more than a coffee shop flunky but I am a responsible bill payer and tax slave. Maybe someday I will get to travel ...
I'm in that club too. I sometimes wonder why I joined and if renewing membership is really worth it.
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posted on
08/06/2018 11:31:12 AM PDT
by
LostInBayport
(When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
To: C19fan
I took a pay cut when I was 23. Joined the Army and saw the world from a helicopter for 27 years.
Best thing I’ve ever done!
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posted on
08/06/2018 11:31:54 AM PDT
by
SakoL61R
To: dandiegirl
>>They dont want to grow up. Permanent Peter Pans. Too many parents that covered all of their mistakes and didnt prepare them for adulting as they call it.
I agree. They want to pass from their mom’s care to the government’s care seamlessly. This is a generation that will sell our nation’s freedom for free wifi.
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posted on
08/06/2018 11:32:19 AM PDT
by
Bryanw92
(Asking a pro athlete for political advice is like asking a cavalry horse for tactical advice.)
To: No Socialist
Now how does taking a pay help you see the world???? You want to see the world with a low salary, join the Military. Been there,done that. Aint that great!
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posted on
08/06/2018 11:32:26 AM PDT
by
MGunny
To: LostInBayport
Sometimes being a nameless hobo sounds very good.
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posted on
08/06/2018 11:33:42 AM PDT
by
wally_bert
(Just call me Angelo or babe.)
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