“Why are today’s kids so spoiled they won’t accept this as a stepping stone job? It surely is not ignoble.”
Here in NJ illegals are stealing jobs the employers don’t want to pay Americans (kids or adults) to do. Americans require such things as workers compensation insurance, overtime pay, and lunch breaks that just get in the way...
A close friend of mine employs students in an academic training agricultural environment. The students are through a program at a major university. Last week I complimented him on the fine work ethic I observed in his student employees, most whom are visiting from the Eastern European Countries.
He said that was true five years ago, but not today. It used to be they would want all the overtime they could get. Today they don’t want to work over forty hrs per week, and often complain that they don’t want to work more than 25 hrs or they will lose their food stamps! The last three years has poisoned a lot of workers.