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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

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 ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: millenials; millennials
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To: IrishBrigade

not when you’re 29 years old...


For a man? Sure, it can. Why not?


61 posted on 08/06/2018 12:00:08 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Oldexpat

Excellent life, sounds like! I sure would be proud of you if you were my son! But not everyone has to have the exact same life. Maybe your own brother did things differently but also had a good life. Maybe he never married. That’s ok too. I don’t see a problem with following a Dream in your 20s.


62 posted on 08/06/2018 12:02:18 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: C19fan

Yeah right with what money???

This is the a Globalists merged with the Corporations attemto sell the public a lie. Haha! So pathetic...


63 posted on 08/06/2018 12:04:40 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: C19fan

“The 29-year-old had practiced energy healing with a shaman in Guatemala and earned a certificate in sustainable agricultural development”

Ben can take those credentials to any Starbucks in America and buy a cup of coffee for only $2.50 ...


64 posted on 08/06/2018 12:06:14 PM PDT by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
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To: Army Air Corps
Sometimes, the comedy writes itself.

Yep, and don't forget the part about not returning to the coffee shop, clearly a major sacrifice.

65 posted on 08/06/2018 12:09:54 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Obadiah

I’m not sure you’re correct re the generations. I already said, the youth were mocked and belittled in Plato’s time! In my day, growing up in the 70s and 80s, we were ridiculed and there was of course some truth to the comments back then! We WERE all on drugs! My parents’ generation with The Beach Boys and the goofing off (in America)?? The music, the styles? It seems there never will be a new generation of youth who is wiser and more hardworking than their parents’ generation.

Even in your day, you probably weighed how much commitment to [whatever, army, wife, boss, etc] you would need to display to get [your dream of a good life]. And made your choices. That is probably constant through time; Kids today (did I actually just say that? Yikes) don’t always see their parents’ commitment to their job, their farm, their wife, as a good thing or something that worked out for that parent. They have to make their mistakes and good choices based on what they see.


66 posted on 08/06/2018 12:10:03 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Yes, just like the Australian woman (Justine Damond) who decided to come near a police officer in Minneapolis, or Kate Steinle who went for a walk in a sanctuary city.

Yet many more exercise prudence and visit places away from home without incident.


67 posted on 08/06/2018 12:12:03 PM PDT by posterchild (anti-science: thinking a fetus is distinct from a tumor and sex is determined by chromosomes)
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To: Obadiah

I know several fellow telecommuters who live full or part time out of their RVs. If they are childless, what responsibilities are they shirking?


68 posted on 08/06/2018 12:15:08 PM PDT by posterchild (anti-science: thinking a fetus is distinct from a tumor and sex is determined by chromosomes)
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To: HombreSecreto
"a degree in sustainable agricultural development"

Which I am sure is complete BS. A regular agro degree from a fine state/A&M school would be marketable.

69 posted on 08/06/2018 12:16:48 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: C19fan

There’s nothing to prevent them from traveling the world now, other than cost. There are laws on the books in other countries that prevent them from working while on that travel. Work visas have to be obtained.

Some countries such as New Zealand have a strict standard for those who want to immigrate or work. Most would not qualify.


70 posted on 08/06/2018 12:17:50 PM PDT by Yulee
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To: Yaelle

Well, we will see in just a short decade or so from now.

Until then, get off my lawn!


71 posted on 08/06/2018 12:18:49 PM PDT by Obadiah
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To: antidemoncrat

Maybe Ben Barker needs to take up farming in South Africa, and see how long that lasts.


72 posted on 08/06/2018 12:18:51 PM PDT by Yulee
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To: Obadiah

Aw, gee!!!

(Leaving lawn)
What’s HIS beef? Somebody put jalapeño in his Metamucil?


73 posted on 08/06/2018 12:21:17 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: posterchild

Well if they are working and taking care of themselves there is really no issue. My focus is on all those who, at say 29 as in this story, want to continue to live a vagrant lifestyle. And even then, fine, just don’t demand others pay your freight, like your mountains of student loans. Or demand a minimum living wage so you can be a bum. Or demand that I pay for your healthcare through Medicaid because you refuse to be responsible and pay your way through like others.

And people wonder why Millenials appear to be in love with the idea of Socialism??


74 posted on 08/06/2018 12:22:44 PM PDT by Obadiah
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To: TalBlack
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?

Depends on what you consider to be "exotic locales". Personally, I never had any interest in foreign travel but I did enjoy road trips around the US, and at one point quit a job when I was in my early-30s so I'd be able to take a month-long plus trip through the western states with my son.

Currently, I've been retired for the past ten years, since I left work when I was 51. I don't travel now though. Figured I pretty much saw what I wanted to see already when I was younger and in better physical condition for hiking the trails. Now, instead of traveling to see new things in new places, I prefer to sit still and look to see what new stuff will come to me instead.

75 posted on 08/06/2018 12:30:02 PM PDT by Wissa ("Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult." - Michael Corleone)
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To: C19fan

I did this, starting back in the mid 1970s.

Took a pay cut, and saw the world!

I went on to spend 22 years on active duty.

I went to Texas, Mississippi, Colorado, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Australia, New Zealand. Fiji, American Samoa, Hawaii, Washington DC, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Germany, United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Greece, Turkey, Bosnia Herzegovina, and Alabama, all on the government’s dime. Can’t complain!


76 posted on 08/06/2018 12:39:38 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (MAGAMarchOnWashington.com)
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To: C19fan

Travel the world. An over-hyped desire much like “world peace” spewed by exuberant beauty contestants.

You want to travel the world without having to rub shoulders with the unwashed and washed alike. Download Google Earth and have at it. No Stink, No Pinch, No Kidding. Been doing it for years and I have yet to pay a dime for the experience.


77 posted on 08/06/2018 12:43:21 PM PDT by CARTOUCHE (The Deep State has a tap root.)
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To: Mears
“Sustainable” is the new buzzword for the young people

I was once lectured by a "learned scholar" who toured Africa. While he was there, he discovered that farmers who regularly moved crops and/or herds from field to field improved yield (sure!), increased "sustainability" (ok...) while decreasing their carbon footprint (debatable). He had it all figured out, how we could end global warming by changing all the farmland in Africa to his all new system, or something.

Sez me, "So you "discovered" crop rotation, a process that's been used since the Egyptians figured it out 5000 years or so ago? Are you on a Gov't grant, or did some college fund your junket?"

That was the end of the conversation. Fine by me, he was kind of a blowhard, really impressed with himself.

78 posted on 08/06/2018 12:45:24 PM PDT by wbill
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To: C19fan

so they should all work on cruise ships...


79 posted on 08/06/2018 12:51:06 PM PDT by stylin19a (Best.Election.Of.All-Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)
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To: CARTOUCHE
You want to travel the world without having to rub shoulders with the unwashed and washed alike. Download Google Earth and have at it. No Stink, No Pinch, No Kidding. Been doing it for years and I have yet to pay a dime for the experience

When I have some free time, which isn't often, I do that. There are some great websites where you can "walk" along the sides of cliffs, travel down back streets in foreign lands and the like all from home. Then there are webcams where you can look in on places. Not the same as being there, but for some of us that's as good as it will get.
80 posted on 08/06/2018 12:52:08 PM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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