“They just don’t care anymore.”
I got home from the Navy in 70 and one week later my Mother asked me ‘when are you getting a job?’.
Lol. My folks waited two weeks. “What are you going to do with your life?”
When my son came home from college his first summer he said he needed to find a job. I have a friend who is a remodeling contractor. “Jason needs a grunt. Call him.” An hour later he was on the way to the jobsite. He worked for Jason for two summers. Jason was mad when he got a job in his engineering field for his third summer.
I got you beat. I got out of the Marine Corps and applied for a job two days later as a ramp agent at Logan Airport. After about a 4 minute interview, I was asked when I could start. I told them I could start right away. Within hours, I had a uniform and was pulling luggage out of airplanes and shoving them into the baggage carousel.