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.
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They could join the military to travel the world. Military paid less, but I have been to a lot of countries after 22 years of service...
In defense of my Millennial friends, I don't think this gaggle of self-absorbed dilettantes is really all that representative of their generation. And frankly, you're going to need a helluva lot more than a 10% pay cut to finance world travel anyway, even on the cheap. What the story really seems to be saying is that they'd rather play than work. Who wouldn't?
Travel is over rated...IMHO....but, then, I must not have gotten the “Travel Bug”....I like home.
“Saving for retirement and hunkering down into a work-sleep-work environment can wait a little.”
One problem is he may have a hard time finding a job after age 50.
Two, we need him working to contribute to SS and Medicare that covers his parents.
Three, what is called sustainable agriculture isn’t going to feed everybody. Why didn’t he obtain a degree in agriculture while in college.
flying standby and living in youth hostels?
Analyzed dispassionately, it is a worthy pursuit. Unsustainable things must eventually end, and be replaced by other things, not all of which are all that desirable. The problem is that the left has co-opted and twisted it to justify their Marxist tendencies.
Exactly, I was wondering that myself.
‘Saving for retirement and hunkering down into a work-sleep-work environment can wait a little.’
not when you’re 29 years old...
and then you and I and thats what they are planning on.
The government will take care of me.
F’em
Well, I think you make some good observations, but I think you are missing a generational shift here that others are commenting on.
Certainly no one, or few, would begrudge people in the prime of their youth from traveling or experiencing life so long as they maintained a proper perspective. However, if you’ve ever spent some time perusing YouTube you would witness a whole class of Millenial types who do nothing but sail around the world or travel across the country with no home address whatsoever. In fact, a report I recently heard is that the RV industry is absolutely booming right now as Millenials are buying up all kinds of RVs for traveling around living a vagrant life.
Tied together, it would appear that this generation whats no commitment, no roots, and as little real responsibility as possible. This is why you see home ownership declining among this demographic. Amazingly, they prefer to rent, and pay rents that are equal to or higher than mortgages simply because a home is more permanent to them and they want to be able to pick up and go anytime without having to have a home sale tie them down.
So yeah, I encourage my kids to be as free as they can in their youth, but I also want them to understand responsibility as a human being and to those around them.
Lol. Mankind has used “sustainable” agriculture ever since there was agriculture. Until Monsanto and its infertile wheat scam.
Or even the merchant marine!
I know I am in a small group - but I have no, absolutely no desire to travel to any other country than my own. There is no culture on the planet that I want to experience first hand. The United States of America is a big place and it has many places and people of interest to keep me busy should I decide I need to get off my property.
Wow - a cut in the pay he gets working at a coffee shop - he won’t be able to buy gum for a week.....
Agreed, but having the media push these stories feeds an agenda.
One of my (many) mistakes in life came towards the end of my service in the US Navy. I was due for discharge to the reserve in October of '64 after a three year "Kiddie Criuse". I was offered the choice of early release in August, or a six month extension as my ship was scheduled for a Med cruise and would be away by October. I took the early out. So now, if I wanna see Europe, I gotta pay!
Did anyone ever ask the Boomers this kind of purely theoretical question? I don’t recall it. They would likely have gotten a similar response. I mean who the hell wouldn’t like to chuck the grind and go fooling around exotic locales?
By the time I was 29. I got a degree. Spent five years in USN. Two in VN. Four years with Fortune 500. Lived in Japan Hong Kong and Manila. Never missed a month without a pay check since graduating. Supported wife and two kids. Who had better life experience? Lots more like me in my generation.
Holy cow Sustainable Agricultural Development. This is kind of like the guy who got a degree in Archeology and found out that Indiana Jones was no longer hiring.
Almost everywhere is the world is a helluva lot worse off than America: less freedom, more danger, more diseases, spoiled food, open sewers, toxic water, cholera, dengue fever, tuberculous, chagas disease, ebola, sleeping sickness, worms, parasites, spiders, snakes, with subhuman filth topping the list.
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