Very sad. I'm sure all the soy in processed food contributes to the decline in masculinity.
I don't think youngsters even know how to get a job. Filling out an application at McDonalds is the length and breadth of their imagination.
A long time ago when I was a teen, I always found work by locating construction sites and knocking on the door of the trailer. I'd ask to speak to the superintendent. I'd tell him I was a looking for a job as a laborer or helper. I was almost always hired on the spot, no applications, no paperwork.
If some kid got up and started knocking on doors at 8:00 AM and offered his help, eventually someone will give him a chance and say "yes". The field of work doesn't matter—auto repair, roofing, moving and hauling, carpeting. So many fields can always use a good, reliable extra pair of hands, trained or not.
And if you are reliable and show up for work everyday, and on time, and give it your best effort, you will eventually be promoted. That's a fact.
Your describing the childhood of most American boys when Christianity was the only worldview for the “Justice” system—based on Common Law, the Magna Carta, etc. and when Classical Christian curricula was all that was allowed in any school. With the communist John Dewey, they started in with the social engineering of the minds of children-—to condition them to flip 2000 years of ethics to Satanism (baby-killing “rights”, sodomy “rights” and socialism (slavery)).
The Wright Brothers went to neighbors to help with so many things to make a few dollars to buy kite materials or bike parts. They never even graduated from high school and neither did Edison. Children were only trapped for four years and for only a few hours a day—so they could learn agency and how to think for themselves (be creative).
Free play and free association has been destroyed in our System of Mass indoctrination which destroys the neurological normal pathways of the brain. The children are being programmed like “bots” so they have NO ABILITY to think for themselves—which has to be practiced and habituated. TV and screens literally create addicts and artificial, unnatural emotions in children and make real life “boring”. Dopamine hits are part of the design in video games, etc., to create addicts and future addicts—lazy, antihuman people.
The Pavlovian/Skinner conditioning has been on steroids now in America for one whole generation!!! with the help of the sodomites in Hollywood (the ones raping all the boys) and the corporations dumping soy and contaminating our water with fluoride and birth control hormones which is destroying literally sperm production in our boys and WORSE!!!!
How old are you? Do those jobs still work that way? How many thousands of lawsuits and millions of illegals have been dropped in and around that industry in the intervening years? You appear to be living decades in the past with your particular prescription.