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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Fine work, and at least they were working. But, "Sales Clerk" is unlikely to be a permanent, career-enhancing job. So travel is fine for them, maybe they'll fall into something that they might make a living doing. At the very least, they'll have learned a lot and have some good memories to fall back upon.
Title of the article is a bit misleading. If someone was say, a newly minted doctor, and walked away from it for a year to tour Sub-Saharan Africa, that would be unusual. But kids drifting around? Not so much. I did a bit of it myself, and it's best done while young.
I have a buddy who spent time there. Sounded like a spiritual healing session from Po City would involve a lot of penicillin. But, I've never been there myself. :-)
if more saw the rest of the world, then they might start to begin to understand why THEY are so lucky (instead of being consummate ingrates), and that the democrats/leftists in america are ‘hand over fist’ trying to turn america into the same kind of shitholes
>> Okay, and you are paying for this travel, how?
Mexico isnt so far away (anyplace there away from the tourist centers will be an eye opener for the lil tykes
That’s it exactly!
> Work can wait
And so can retirement. Compound interest is a big multiplier.
On the flip side, work isn’t everything in life.
I spent a sizable amount of time in Mexico, before the narcos and all their attendant issues came along.
For a time, I stayed in a 5-star hotel. Easily the nicest place I've ever stayed in; food, service, cleanliness, etc made nice places in America look paltry in comparison.
I also stayed in the Mexican equivalent of a "Motel 6". Safe, and sort of clean. That's about it. Was quite a bit more fun than the 5-star, though. Went to the local watering hole a fair bit with the folks I was working with (all Mexican). Nice people, food was simple but good. I'm sure that the bar robbed me blind on the beer (at a dollar a beer, I bought more than a few rounds...) but I was on an expense account and could've cared less.
You can travel like a tourist, or like a native. Each has their own benefits.
was this “paycut” quantified
and did it mention if they were actually willing to work harded than they ever had in their lives to do so ?
Well I guess that explains why our employers want to bring in foreign workers on H2B visas.
Our young people are off learning sustainable agriculture from Shamans in Guatemala.
I instead worked hard to make my income go up 6x in the last 10 years, travel all over the world 4 weeks a year, and still save 6 digits and will retire early. I guess I am now technically a millennial although I was Gen Y or Gen X growing up and have little in common with most millennials.
I think people should travel as much as possible when they are young. Later they will have families and responsibilities, so they think they will travel in retirement. Then when they retire their health won’t let them travel and do things if they do. If you get the chance to see the world when you’re young, do it.
My oldest girl is going for her nursing degree. I suggested the Air Force, let them pay for it, and go out and see the world for free.
She declined because going in with her BS degree she starts as an officer.
What’s your opinion?
Parents rejoice, that would mean your daughter or son would then be able to get out of their parents basements..../s
Candy Crush bucks.
Seriously, how stupid are these people ? They’ve removed their ability to travel by about half !
In Europe it was a thing all the young kids did. Work after high school, live at home, save money, and go on one or more very long trips. They would tell me they just spent 6 months touring my country more than I ever had. I’d be jealous.
This is why, right or wrong, that companies want/need to import people. Millennials as a whole are worthless.
I can assure you, there is no coffee shop in Ft. Collins, Colorado that drug tests their employees.
He could learn street smarts by walking through some “interesting” neighbourhoods in the USA. Heck, go to work for a bookie or a pawnbroker and learn some street smarts. he does have that whole studying energy healing thing to fall back on, though. Lots of gullible people would pay him money to wave crystals over their body.
Yeah, pretty much.
The preceding generations who paid $50,000 for a new home, $800 a semester for college, $200 hospital bill to have a baby, $3500 for a new car, retired at sixty with a full pension, and all the while voted for every job killing regulation that this country is now burdened with wants to bag on Millennials, the very generation whose laps they dropped a giant s**t sandwich of debt, for being lazy and less concerned with material wealth.
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