He can’t get a job at a grocery store temporarily to pay his car payment?
Reading the story, I noticed that none of these young (and not-so-young) skulls of mush mentioned any plans to leave Kalifornia.
Hello? You’re living in a state with a high cost of living, high taxes and an unsustainable pension and social services system. Even if they find work in Cali, they will wind up paying higher taxes than their counterparts in other states.
Meanwhile, there is a chronic labor shortage in North Dakota, Texas and other locations where our energy resources are being being leveraged. Any of these young people interviewed for the story could complete a CDL course in six weeks or less, fly to North Dakota and get a truck-driving job within hours of arriving. Starting pay around $75,000 a year—even higher if you’re willing to work overtime.
Same thing for other jobs in the energy sector. Sean Hannity has interviewed the owners of several small and medium-sized energy services companies on his show. One company (based in Texas or North Dakota), has 200 vacancies. Most require training, but you can get it through the company or a local community college and if you go that latter route, the employer typically pays for it.
Yeah, winters in North Dakota suck and summers in the Permain Basin aren’t a picnic, either. But if these so-called adults were interested in actually getting work or starting a career, they’d be on the road to Texas or North Dakota. But of course, it’s so much easier to live in your parents’ basement and complain that you can’t find a job at Starbucks.
My thought exactly.
A lot of people are coming out of high school and college expecting to get a really nice job right out of the gate. ?I know somebody just like this who ran out of unemployment a long time ago, but is still holding out for a ‘good’ job.
Good point. I dug ditches when I had to. I wonder if all his apps. were in his “field”?
That's the problem with all these supposedly hard luck stories - the people in them are lazy snobs who think the world owes them a comfortable easy life. That said, I know more college grads living with their parents than I've ever seen in my life. Their jobs may or may not be crappy, but almost all of them are drowning in student loan debt. The millenials do have a tough road ahead of them.
I’ve seen a disproportionate number of 60-somethings hired to work at cash registers and bag groceries of late. Whether it is because of a stronger work ethic, avoiding age discrimination charges or because the managers don’t want to hire the young I don’t know.