Posted on 08/06/2018 11:12:14 AM PDT by C19fan
Ben Barker had already been in South America for three months when he decided not to return to his job at a Fort Collins, Colorado coffee shop.
The 29-year-old had practiced energy healing with a shaman in Guatemala and earned a certificate in sustainable agricultural development, but he wasn't done exploring – and work could wait.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
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 ...
In other words, he had no saleable skills.
Sure...good work if you can get....probably makes two or three hundred pesos a day.. :)
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.
I did not know they were not free to travel.
If freeloading sustainable???
A 40% pay raise gets them to goal much faster. Well those earning less Venezuelans are traveling more—across the border to Colombia one way. Case in point.
They would take a pay cut if someone else was paying for their travel.
Is this a millennial hating website??
I haven’t 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. It’s not that original. And it says more about you than them. If you have so much more experience and thus wisdom, who aren’t you more understanding of people who don’t 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 isn’t 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.
Cool. Just don’t come crying for a handout with your school loans and desire for socialized healthcare.
It reminds of the Hippies who toddled off to India to study under a swami, join an ashram, etc.
Join the Navy.
Who would give that up? That’s crazy man! /s
Maybe the owner of the coffee shop is one of the few left who still drug tests employees!
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.
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!
>>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.
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.
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. Ain’t that great!
Sometimes being a nameless hobo sounds very good.
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