A few more decades of bone-crushing deficits have done their work on the economy. This isn’t the economy I saw when I was starting out, and I could walk down any street and get a job. I was very casual about changing jobs because there was always another one and better.
It isn’t just the kids starting out that can’t find work, anyone hitting the streets right now is going to have a tough time.
The older ones out of work have the memory of how it once was and could be. The young ones don’t have that memory and will tend to accept things as just how it is. So the psychology is different.
I never brag about my generation. I think they are a historical embarrassment. My peers are the ones who mocked what our grandparents built and threw away what our parents left us.
I have a friend who runs 3 businesses.
He laments that he cannot find workers to do the most simple manual labor. Nor can they be depended upon to get up in the morning & do chores.
I reminded him that he & I were raised when doing the best job you could meant something. When you took extra good care of animals who couldn’t fend for themselves. When if an employer gave you the chance to prove yourself, you worked hard to do exactly that.
I did lots of things when I was under 25 years old, including pick strawberries when I was too young to get a legal work permit. Of course, I still lived at home and didn’t have to pay room & board, but that money was mine & I learned to ration it wisely.
I also worked in offices, in a factory making parts for air distribution panels, selling auto parts & mixing auto paint & in a tire store—dismounting & mounting tires, in a machine shop—the shop portion.
I have watched my oldest brother give lavish gifts to his 3 kids—including 3 brand new Artic Cat snowmobiles—when they were 10-12-13 years old respectively. They grew up thinking there was no limit to what their parents would give them, and only one applied herself to her schoolwork. The oldest & the youngest were not even mediocre students & both of them think they ‘are all that & a bag of chips’.
My brother raised both of his 1st 2 grandkids, as the oldest couldn’t seem to stop partying.
The youngest still owes me rent money from 1988 & laughs about it. Today, he lives in a multi-million $$$ house. Ask me how much I think of all of them!!!
The best comment from my brother! “How come you never send my kids birthday presents & nice Christmas presents?” I told him I could not compete with Artic Cat snowmobiles and that anything I gave them would fall way short in their expectations.
There has been far too much high living & handouts to the max given to his kids & his grandkids.
Rules? NOT for them!!
Morals? I have proof they were holding parties with drinking & drugs inside my brother’s house when he & SIL were out of town for a weekend. These were high school age kids. Never should have left them alone.
Brother still thinks his kids are pure as driven snow & they never have done anything wrong. These ethics have been passed onto the grandkids & now the whole country is blessed with yet another generation that doesn’t know how to WORK.
My friend actually had to give lessons to a new employee about HOW TO FILL UP A WATER TANK for his horses!!!! Let’s see—Hose-—turn on water—put hose into tank—monitor & move hose when tank is full—turn off water—put hose away. Hardly rocket science material!!!
I am beyond glad that I don’t have a business that requires me to hire & evaluate any new employees. It’s akin to finding another 5 carat diamond in that Arkansas State Park.
Come to think of it, I could probably do that sooner!!
I have a friend who runs 3 businesses.
He laments that he cannot find workers to do the most simple manual labor. Nor can they be depended upon to get up in the morning & do chores.
I reminded him that he & I were raised when doing the best job you could meant something. When you took extra good care of animals who couldn’t fend for themselves. When if an employer gave you the chance to prove yourself, you worked hard to do exactly that.
I did lots of things when I was under 25 years old, including pick strawberries when I was too young to get a legal work permit. Of course, I still lived at home and didn’t have to pay room & board, but that money was mine & I learned to ration it wisely.
I also worked in offices, in a factory making parts for air distribution panels, selling auto parts & mixing auto paint & in a tire store—dismounting & mounting tires, in a machine shop—the shop portion.
I have watched my oldest brother give lavish gifts to his 3 kids—including 3 brand new Artic Cat snowmobiles—when they were 10-12-13 years old respectively. They grew up thinking there was no limit to what their parents would give them, and only one applied herself to her schoolwork. The oldest & the youngest were not even mediocre students & both of them think they ‘are all that & a bag of chips’.
My brother raised both of his 1st 2 grandkids, as the oldest couldn’t seem to stop partying.
The youngest still owes me rent money from 1988 & laughs about it. Today, he lives in a multi-million $$$ house. Ask me how much I think of all of them!!!
The best comment from my brother! “How come you never send my kids birthday presents & nice Christmas presents?” I told him I could not compete with Artic Cat snowmobiles and that anything I gave them would fall way short in their expectations.
There has been far too much high living & handouts to the max given to his kids & his grandkids.
Rules? NOT for them!!
Morals? I have proof they were holding parties with drinking & drugs inside my brother’s house when he & SIL were out of town for a weekend. These were high school age kids. Never should have left them alone.
Brother still thinks his kids are pure as driven snow & they never have done anything wrong. These ethics have been passed onto the grandkids & now the whole country is blessed with yet another generation that doesn’t know how to WORK.
My friend actually had to give lessons to a new employee about HOW TO FILL UP A WATER TANK for his horses!!!! Let’s see—Hose-—turn on water—put hose into tank—monitor & move hose when tank is full—turn off water—put hose away. Hardly rocket science material!!!
I am beyond glad that I don’t have a business that requires me to hire & evaluate any new employees. It’s akin to finding another 5 carat diamond in that Arkansas State Park.
Come to think of it, I could probably do that sooner!!