When I was fourteen, I loaded trucks for North American Van Lines. You couldn't do that today.
“When I was fourteen, I loaded trucks for North American Van Lines. You couldn’t do that today”
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That’s true. My sister worked for UPS as a young woman and really hurt her back—to this day it bothers her, and she’s in her 40’s.
I'll give you that one.
My daughter statement comes from her observations. She notices "a gap", as she calls it in the age group between 16ish and 30ish. The group in the middle is going to be mostly forgotten about or marginalized in the future, because of a "spoiled brat, buy me that! attitude". To talk to her about it is interesting, I'll will tell you that I don't worry about her political, moral, or religious convictions.
I started working as a dishwasher for a steak house at 13. Until I started having kids I worked. Now my 15 year old son who REALLY wants to work because he wants a car, gets told no one hires 15s because of the liability and restricted hours. In Nebraska 14 & 15s can only work after 4:00 pm and before 7:00 pm during the week with a total of 18 hours per week during the school year. What employer in their right mind would want to mess with that? None in my area.
Unintended consequences of the nanny state are what is keeping the teenagers from working. I was working 40+ hours a week when I was 15. It's illegal to do that now. I was operating a meat slicer. You have to be 18 to do that now.