Yeah, I know, most of them would wind up in the emergency room if they tried to work one day like I worked when I was twelve years old on days that I wasn’t in school. I used to walk more miles in one summer day than most of them walk in a month now and I KNOW I didn’t have it as tough as those who came a hundred years before me, not even close.
I understand now what Kirk Douglas meant when he said that he was so proud of what Michael had accomplished even though he did not have the “great advantage” of being brought up dirt poor as Kirk was.
It is really crazy. I just don’t get it. Many of the kids we hire want a big payday without much work and they expect to have every thing their parents have starting out.
In the past 5 years, I have seen two of my employees quit and file for bankruptcy on 5,000 debt or so because they wanted to travel or spend and inordinate time just to hang out with friends on UI payments.
We try and counsel these kids, but the gotta have it now ‘tude is extreme and unyielding.