Given Ken's attitude, I thought he could use sage advice from those who managed to take the less honorable approach of getting a job and paying taxes.
Here are some links for Kenny:
http//www.craigslist.org
And there are thousands more.
two worded advice: Grow up!
He should realize that no job is beneath anyone’s dignity but his whining and living off of others is.
He should pay rent to whoever he is living with, even if it is to his parents and a small amount. If he chooses to move out he doesn’t need his own swanky place but needs to understand it’s OK to share a house/apt with roommates and economize.
He should lose the expectation that his degree will be directly applicable to his next job or any future job. His education may serve him well, but not in the direct and tangible ways that he expects.
He should pay his bills. Whatever he can afford.
He should realize he doesn’t need any ‘toys’ right now. His expenses should be essentials.
He must be willing to accept relocation. He should relish the adventure.
He needs to be proactive.
Well, what did he think he’d do with a history major? You can teach or maybe become a dem congressperson. I guess he has loftier goals for which he thinks he needs no background.
I was a history major in college. I intended to become a history professor. Life, however, intervened and when I left school I took a job in a meat packing plant. I took the job because it was the only one in the paper that day that advertised that they offered benefits and I had a family to worry about.
Seven years later I was managing the company. Ken should try to get a job, any job, and bust his ass until he gets where he wants to go.
Signed, Single Mom. Kid in College. Two Jobs. 14 hours a day.
He could always go to work for Air America. That’s history..
parasite lib
ping for later
I’ve had kids finish their educations and move back in with us. They need to pay room and board, even if only a token. They need to live by our rules. I’ll tolerate 3 months to look for a decent job in their desired field. After that, get a job, or get out. I won’t enable sloth.
What integrity? If he had learned anything at all about history, he would realize that he is living in the greatest, most prosperous, nation and time in history. If he can't make it here, he won't make it anywhere.
Before he goes out searching for that job that won't compromise his integrity, it might help him to learn the definition of integrity. Sounds suspiciously like he is confusing integrity with pride.
Yeah, I can relate.
I don’t dig this work stuff myself, but I haven’t found a way around it even after 40 years of trying. My parents were very intolerant like that.
Carlisle England, 1966:
“Mum, Dad, I want a telly of my own!”
“Get a job!”
“There’s this motorbike I could fix up and...”
“Get a job!”
“Joanne would go out with me more often if I could afford nicer places...”
“Get a job!”
“My very own extension phone...”
“Get a job!”
My dad had no trouble at all explaining why a smart boy like me should be sweeping floors in a local warehouse.
“They pay yer’ to do it.”
I got the message, a little slowly perhaps but a lot sooner than our hero here.
Complete and utter BS! I know first-hand, as I gotta history degree!
Idea #1) Be willing to relocate somewhere outside of Buffalo.
My parents would have bounced his a** down the front steps if he tried that with them. We knew that if we went to school we could live there for free if we had good grades and we were expected to support ourselves afterwards. If we didn’t choose a well paying job, well good luck with the student loans. If we didn’t go to school, we went to work and paid rent if we chose to live at home. All of us paid for our own educations and weddings. Best of all, we are all independent, appreciate our lives and now help take care of our parents.
It could be worse.
He could have majored in Philosophy.
Dear Ken’s Mom And Dad,
You are doing young (?) Ken no favor by assisting him in protecting his integrity.There will come a day you won’t be there..and what compromise will Kenny have to make in order to eat? It will be hard on him, Mom and Dad..very hard because he has had no practice.
The guy almost sounds like a 1960’s wanna be. The difference being, most of the rebels of that time had no home to go to. For the most part, they got a hair cut and got a real job...because they had to!
>>You can read more about Ken’s travails at the bottom of the page — including his belief that he is better off unemployed than “compromising his integrity.”<<
That is LITERALLY the attitude of many of the derelicts living on the streets of Seattle.
Reminds me of another idealogue, albeit a more successful one, Thoreau.
Ralph Waldo Emerson supported him.
A true Hillary (Liberal Socialist leaning) democrat.