Holy crap. As a baby boomer, I was on my own at 18, married at 21, and started my current career at 25.
Between then and now, millions of good jobs were sent from American, to China.
Same jobs. Producing the same things. The same people are buying, the same stuff.
Except the jobs aren’t in America now. Now American workers don’t have jobs.
They’re in China. Bring back American jobs.
I, too, was on my own at 18, and so were most of my friends. We had our own little apartments, jobs and cars. Now my friends’ kids are in their mid-20s to mid-40s and are still living at home. The few who aren’t living with their parents have several roommates. Not one roommate...but three to six roommates! Many of those still living at home are unemployed. Some have college degrees but either can’t find a job or they finally found a job at Starbucks after a long search and are grateful to have it.
This is very ominous, because young people are not going to be able to get married and have families because of this. And then what? Right now they’re living off the wealth of the Greatest Generation and Baby Boomers, and what happens when that’s gone?
today’s crop of young 20’s are still out skateboarding until they have a full beard and beer belly
don’t they chase girls anymore at that age?
My two eldest granddaughters 27 and almost 30 are doing great. Both graduated college Summa, traveled the world. 30 yo has been married 7 years, her sister 6. Both are self employed, one an award winning wedding photographer, the other an artist who has showings at New York art galleries. Their younger sister (24) another Summa grad is a 4th grade teacher at an international school in Ghana. The Ambassador to the U,N. for Africa children are some of her students. I have four more all on the same path to be productive citizens from day one. Not having a lot of money can be a real blessing. No spoiled children!
Same here...
Big difference is I didn't FEEL entitled to a job, a life, a career like many of these whiny crybabies do today...
I know "I" had to make my life, not wait on some other entity like mom or dad or uncle sugar daddy to grease the path for me...
At 22 I was married had two children worked a full time job and went to school three nights a week...
Ask most of these kids today to do that and you get this incredulous look like "are you insane" ...
I was born during WWII, just before the start of the baby boom. I went straight into the Navy upon high school graduation, got my honorable two days before my 21st, at 23 I was earning what would be equivalent to over $70000. a year now, driving a new car and was considered by most to be...a failure! I was single and that was looked on as some kind of sin by many in those days. At 23 I was supposed to have a wife, a house with a mortgage and a child or two.