Posted on 04/25/2014 6:52:10 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Brian Alunan has nothing to show for the 150 applications he has submitted to Sacramento area employers over the last few months. No bites, no interviews, no job.
Alunan is 29, and lives with his parents. His work history is spotty. His unemployment benefits have ended. The bank is about to take his car.
If every generation is supposed to be better off financially than the one that proceeded it, Sacramento “millennials” have a lot of catching up to do.
Several experts said the economy is the primary culprit. Many millennials graduated from high school or college during the Great Recession and had trouble finding work. Others were just getting started as professionals and were the first laid off during the economic downturn.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
By spending more time talking about the economy and less time talking about abortion and gay marriage.
And, yes, I expect people here will not like this answer.
Get a damned lawn mower and start a landscaping business!!! What the
HELL,!! I have 2 college grads working with me in a retail environment
for 10.00 an hour, both have been also doing consistent short tern NON PAID INTERNSHIPS in their fields to build their resumes!!! This IS the
ONLY way these kids are going to succeed today!! Showing unemployment for an extended period of time shows very little determination to succeed!!!
Anyone else notice that the article fails to mention what their degrees are..any takers for “feminist literature” or “urban studies”..
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http://www.linkedin.com/pub/brian-alunan/50/b66/161
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Agency director enters not guilty plea - Alunan has been charged with three felonies including embezzlement
Davis Enterprise, The (CA) - Sunday, March 5, 2006
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When Yolo County was ready to form its IHSS Pubic Authority, Alunan was recruited from San Francisco. He and his wife, Maria, and son, Brian , live in Antelope.
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-122206199.html
They are drowning in debt, not just student loan debt. It’s their own fault for taking out the loans and then treating them like income.
Consequences for actions taken is so unfair.
LIBERAL ARTS, I LOVE THE FEMINISTS STUDIES, PUBLIC RELATIONS, with all of the attorneys today a law degree and the cost of it is another great field to go after!!! These kids after high school NEED to
get into trade schools today!!! Welding, electrical, HVAC, GREAT MONEY
and low cost education can also get this education at community colleges!!!
I am in fact old enough to remember:
Young people of the late 60’s (I was one of them);
Young people of the 1970’s,
Young people of the 1980’s,
Young people of the 1990’s, and on into the `millenials’
I knew hard times in each of those decades & what it felt like to be out of work, so I’m not looking back from the ivory tower of lifetime employment with one firm & assurance of secure retirement from the beginning.
That said, I can look back and see common characteristics in the un-or-underemployed young of each of those past decades:
Sense of entitlement
Belief in one’s own generational uniqueness
No sense of the past or those who once lived in it
Self absorption & desire for the latest toys
Lack of realization of the passage of time
Minimal interest in the reality of a loving G-d
I’m retired now, and every day my wife & I give humble thanks for the relative security we have. I wouldn’t want to be a young person today for all the tea in China.
If you live in Cali, going to a place that is almost the farthest you can get from the beach is a tough sell.”
Life can be difficult, even under the best of circumstances. Had these parents fulfilled their obligations as parents these kids would have the skills to function independently. But they chose to be their benevolent friend instead and this is what we ended up with.
Wonder how long it is going to take parents to realize that the kid in their basement is also part of the generation that will be responsible for them in their old age but is ill equipped to do so.
DON’T encourage them to come to Texas. We already have enough numb nuts here now to amply fill the quotas.
Why do we hate millennials? I don’t hate them. I hate what they do. Or don’t do. What they don’t do is THINK. In most cases we start with an empty vessel to train. They have been taught very little and aspire to the same. They don’t even know the difference between sending a memo TO someone vs. CC someone.
They ALL attend meetings and get mostly nothing concluded because they can’t even make a succinct recommendation.
About the time you think you have them wound up and on their way to doing something they stall out and you have to start them all over again. They can’t follow through and complete things.
works for me.
Proportionality always works!
we need to “OWN” the “game”
I live in CA. and the state is a mess beach or no beach. You put a 22
year old kid in South Dakota making 100,000 a year with oil company
when he is able to buy his first BIG FANCY SPORTS CAR the beach will
be forgotten very quickly!! It’s very hard work, don’t know if the kids from
CA. are actually made of this kind of grit!!!
BINGO! My daughter is an engineering major at a major VA college. She has a small group of friends who are focused on school. All have summer internship jobs lined up with serious wages and benefits. Work/Reward is still available - but it isn’t easy.
College degrees that get handed out like participation trophies in soccer might be good for self esteem, but you know what’s better? A real education and a real job.
Hey, but I bet the kids in the article had lots of fun in college. Best time of their lives...
Actually, I moved back in with Mom and Dad right after college. Couldn't find work right out of school in my "chosen" field (Electrical Engineering, believe it or not) so I lived at home and worked retail for cruddy pay, for a bit.
Couldn't find a job in EE (I made the mistake of NOT doing an internship....foolish!) so after looking for a good bit, and sending out entirely too many resumes .... I said "Waitaminute. Maybe it's not EVERY engineering employer in country that hates me.......".
I knew a fair bit about computers, so I took a cruddy job in IT...long hours, lousy pay (likely way less than min wage, if I sat and figured it out), however, the job got me out of Mom and Dad's house (first paycheck, I was out like a shot) and got me a ton of experience, very, very quickly. 20-odd years later, here I am, still in IT.
Hard work pays off. But, in reading the article, I'm not sure that anyone interviewed understands that. It reads more like: "Hey, I showed up. Where's my dough?"
You are of course correct, Hoover was a far different man than Obowma, Hoover was blamed for the depression. Obowma can pretty much do virtually anything with impunity and except in conservative media you would never know about it.
*** .all the college kids were, literally, dancing in the streets!***
They were dancing in the streets of Cali when South Vietnam and Cambodia fell to the commies.
Didn’t turn out well for the Vietnamese and Cambodians.
Why didn't I think of this? I've been scratching my head trying to find a job that would pay me $500 a month and have October through March off. And if I sleep in my truck, I can almost pay my Obamacare premiums!
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