Posted on 02/24/2013 8:05:25 AM PST by Kaslin
Why are they stressed by the realization of the change they so enthusiastically voted for?
Maybe those that are stressed are finally waking up?
But if you are a hard-working young person with a good professional credential or an in-demand skill, you will find a surprisingly warm welcome from employers. There aren’t very many young people like this, so there is not much competition. The baby boomers have to retire sooner or later, and employers still need good workers coming in.
The Son would work for/with the Father for a time,
learning the family trade
Spouses would live with or near by the Family Home
Raising children in an extended family
Other answers included entering Military or Priesthood
Half that demographic have been thrilled to have been given free healthcare from their parents’ employers.
They voted for all this crap.
Maybe if they learned slang spanish and are willing to to work for below minimum wage as welders, carpenters, mechanics, plumbers, electricians, truck drivers, or factory workers, they they might have a chance of landing a job, at least if they live in the south or the west, just based on observations. Or, if they could just get a H1B visa, they could get a job with a tech or design firm, for half price of course. Like any business, oppurtunity chases the lowest overhead, which is fine. Just be prepared for the boomers and gen-x crowd to keep paying for their kids to live in their basements forever, along with supporting the unemployed and the free sh!t army on top of that. Hope you didn’t have plans on retiring or collecting SS or cashing out your 401k or IRA anytime soon.
stress is nothing more than the lack of mental ability to handle the situation at hand!!!
The millennials may be getting screwed by Obama, but they’re enjoying the experience. They’re among his staunchest backers, because they can’t... Or won’t connect his policies with the difficulties they’re facing. When ordered by the regime’s Ministry of Propaganda to believe the Repubs are to blame, the Millennials, like emerging majorities of Americans, bleat passively like good little sheep and meekly comply.
Well, that sure disabled my Give A Shit response...
Yeah, it's true, people between the ages of 18 and 33 probably are in the most stressful period of their lives because of all the changes they go though, in transition between pampered children and responsible adulthood.
I believe that's been the case as long as I can remember, it's not particularly a new phenomenon.
Sure, the challenges facing them are immense, but they COULD be a lot worse.
Boomers indeed made a lot of mistakes; one of the worst was raising the most self-entitled generation in history. My advice to the author is if he wants people to feel his pain, he needs to find a way to do it without sounding so whiney. I hate whiners.
” Hope you didn’t have plans on retiring or collecting SS or cashing out your 401k or IRA anytime soon.
Yep, especially since the regime is eyeing plans to “help us manage” our private retirement accounts.
I graduated into a pretty crappy economy locally, in the mid-late eighties. Jobs in my field were thin, I was very disappointed with what I was able to land. Had to live with my parents for two years, paying down the student loan debt. My dad helped me with that. Did what I had to do, looking back it wasn’t the greatest of circumstance for a newly minted grad, but it worked out eventually.
Now is worse than then, though. Can’t say I knew a soul among family or friends who lost their job then, let alone their house or their business. It’s not unusual at all now.
If there’s nothing where you are, move heaven and earth to get to where there’s something and throw yourself into it, make the most of what comes your way, whatever it is. Keep your eyes open for opportunity, it existed then and exists even now, just harder to find.
That’s all anyone can do, it’s what I did. I feel for them, but wallowing in self-pity will only drag it out that much longer
On the up side.. this is heaven for a gen X’er single male with a job, since he can take his pick of USDA prime 20 something girls looking for anyone with a job.
Maybe your cussing in public stresses them, there is no reason to use that language on a public forum of conservatives.
I can’t be too tough on Kenton for that. My Give-a-Carp gland broke down on the sentence he copied, too.
Nobody wants to admit that they don’t deserve the government largesse that they presently receive. It makes them feel better to blame someone else and then cash “their” entitlement checks.
Millenials will get less than the present generation of SS/Medicare recipients. If you get SS/Medicare today, you’re getting it as good as it will ever be - you also don’t deserve what you get based on what you paid in.
Like any generation, Millenials have their share of idiots, and an even bigger share of folks who have yet to learn from the “school of hard knocks” by definition.
What the greedy oldsters of today fail to realize is that these kids will DEFAULT on the debt they did not incur and they will cut every Medicare/SS off completely, especially the grumpy ones who wagged their finger at them.
Then we’ll have a geriatric cannibal nightmare at what once were placid, restful retirement homes funded with Medicaid dollars, and fist-fights over the few remaining functional “free scooters” in retirement-ville.
Just kidding......sorta.
“Boomers indeed made a lot of mistakes; one of the worst was raising the most self-entitled generation in history.”
Boomers are all greedy self-absorbed takers from government......(See how generational generalizations can work)
” I hate whiners.”
A “whiner” is someone hasn’t yet qualified for government benefits then?
I stopped reading right there.
A 21 year old nephew of a friend of mine showed up on my door on January 3, 2012. He is from Idaho, and he had the intention of becoming an electrician. As of that point he had no real skills or education for being an electrician. One of our friends is an electrician and was able to get him a chance to work out on a gold mine in BFE central Nevada. He was low man on the totem pole, of course, but he worked his ass off, and it was very noticed. Soon, he was being allowed to work on things as (not even an apprentice yet), that would normally only be allowed for apprentice or journeymen electricians because he worked his ass off, did the job right, and learned quickly. As the first project was winding down, and most of the electrical crew were discharged, they kept him there, then he got an immediate spot on the next mine in BFE Nevada, and hasn’t been out of work for one day in the 14 months since he first showed up on my doorstep.
It definitely helped that someone he knew was able to crack the door for him, but after that crack, it was all him, working harder than everyone else, learning like a sponge, and being willing to spend months working in very remote places. He finally passed his apprentice test (he has a fairly moderate reading disability), but he studied hard for it, and did it.
They will default.
Paying the Baby Boomer's debts, health care, and pensions is only half their problem.
Some how the Millennials must be persuaded that future generations will be stupid enough to pay for the Millennial’s retirement.
Both parts of that proposition are ludicrous.
I'm a Boomer.
Time to face reality, fellow senior citizens.
The Millennials are not going to pay our debts or our bills.
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