“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?
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.