These aren't slackers, these are young people with post graduate degrees and dual majors in useful fields that should allow for good job prospects.
Originally posted by sanchoearlyjones
reply to post by kosmicjack
These aren't slackers, these are young people with post graduate degrees and dual majors in useful fields that should allow for good job prospects.
Um, I've not ever been too big on sizing a person up based off of College education.
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can and didn't get tested for diabetes. (try crack moms and
Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-base paints. (the lead is still there because you STILL continued to paint with it even after people were saying it, BUT HEY! THEY ARE JUST CRAZY)
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, locks on doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had baseball caps not helmets on our heads. (same here, only dorks wear helmets)
As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, no booster seats, no seat belts, no air bags, bald tires and sometimes no brakes. (if you drive anything like you did back then currently, then no you are ALL STILL ALIVE)
Riding in the back of a pick- up truck on a warm day was always a special treat. (same...?)
We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle. (k... same?)
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and no one actually died from this. (still dont know anyone who dies from it, but if they did, its because you guys brought that over here for us to enjoy when you were in singapore or wherever)
We ate cupcakes made with Lard, white bread, real butter and bacon. We drank FLAV-OR- AID made with real white sugar. And, we weren't overweight. WHY? (cus you guys also invented aspartame which is the reason, wait... no fat people ever back then?)
Because we were always outside playing....that's why! (its dangerous outside with all the radioactive and poisonous chemicals from life long obsession with BLOWING PEOPLE UP AND MAKING MONEY THE CHEAPEST WAY)
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on. No one was able to reach us all day. And, we were OKAY. (
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride them down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem (bet they never looked like this geektyrant.com...)
We did not have Play stations, Nintendo's and X-boxes. There were no video games, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet and no chat rooms. (thats a positive? im confused...)
WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them! (because anyone with a computer has no friends..... )
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents. (pretty hard to sue yourself i guess)
We would get spankings with wooden spoons, switches, ping pong paddles, or just a bare hand and no one would call child services to report abuse. (and then you grew up and were mad that you couldnt do the same?)
We ate worms and mud piesmade from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever. (actually those worms were and are still around... i guess you guys did that cus you didnt have videogames... or intelligence)
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes. (same yet again)
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them. (i once again dont know the difference)
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! (or now they get a computer and make a bajillion dollars that way, ohhh wait... that bubble burst was your fault too... damn)
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law! (back when barney fife was the law...)
These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever. (we have people who think its a good idea to go hike in iran. dont talk about risk takers. besides...
The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. What can kids today do besides push buttons. (so i guess your playstations and video games are part of that... so in essence you are the reason why kids today cant do anything at all right?)
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all. (and you took it all away from us)
If YOU are one of them, CONGRATULATIONS!
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regula ted so much of our lives for our own good.
While you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave and lucky their parents were. (for living the easy life it sounds, sounds pretty boring)
I like some old people, but for the most part, you are the reason why our country is this way. your wanting to continue to have it easy, and not think about global warming, not thinking it was a bad idea to give the government more control, to go and make that money by sueing peoples parents, to rip down the forests and make animals go extinct for money, to expose people to more and more toxic chemicals which produced stronger bugs and tore away at our immune system. awesome. i guess we have to applaud you!
/rant
ps - keep right except to pass
The incomes of the young and middle-aged — especially men — have fallen off a cliff since 2000, leaving many age groups poorer than they were even in the 1970s, a USA TODAY analysis of new Census data found.
People 54 or younger are losing ground financially at an unprecedented rate in this recession, widening a gap between young and old that had been expanding for years.
While the young have lost ground, older people have grown more prosperous over the years and the decades. Older women have done best of all.
The dividing line between those getting richer or poorer: the year 1955. If you were born before that, you're part of a generation enjoying a four-decade run of historic income growth. Every generation after that is now sinking economically.
Affected are a range of young people, from high school dropouts, to college grads, to newly minted lawyers and MBAs across the developed world from Britain to Japan. One indication: In the U.S., the unemployment rate for 16- to 24-year-olds has climbed to more than 18%, from 13% a year ago.
For people just starting their careers, the damage may be deep and long-lasting, potentially creating a kind of "lost generation." Studies suggest that an extended period of youthful joblessness can significantly depress lifetime income as people get stuck in jobs that are beneath their capabilities, or come to be seen by employers as damaged goods.
Equally important, employers are likely to suffer from the scarring of a generation. The freshness and vitality young people bring to the workplace is missing. Tomorrow's would-be star employees are on the sidelines, deprived of experience and losing motivation. In Japan, which has been down this road since the early 1990s, workers who started their careers a decade or more ago and are now in their 30s account for 6 in 10 reported cases of depression, stress, and work-related mental disabilities, according to the Japan Productivity Center for Socio-Economic Development...
Originally posted by Jessicamsa
reply to post by Zosynspiracy
Not to mention that the government really does not want you to start your own business. This is evident with all of the laws enacted which choke the life out of attempts or makes things more stressful for the business owner.
From Cairo to London to Brooklyn, too many young people are jobless and disaffected...
In each of these nations, an economy that can't generate enough jobs to absorb its young people has created a lost generation of the disaffected, unemployed, or underemployed—including growing numbers of recent college graduates for whom the post-crash economy has little to offer. Tunisia's Jasmine Revolution was not the first time these alienated men and women have made themselves heard. Last year, British students outraged by proposed tuition increases—at a moment when a college education is no guarantee of prosperity—attacked the Conservative Party's headquarters in London and pummeled a limousine carrying Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla Bowles. Scuffles with police have repeatedly broken out at student demonstrations across Continental Europe. And last March in Oakland, Calif., students protesting tuition hikes walked onto Interstate 880, shutting it down for an hour in both directions.
More common is the quiet desperation of a generation in "waithood," suspended short of fully employed adulthood. At 26, Sandy Brown of Brooklyn, N.Y., is a college graduate and a mother of two who hasn't worked in seven months. "I used to be a manager at a Duane Reade [drugstore] in Manhattan, but they laid me off. I've looked for work everywhere and I can't find nothing," she says. "It's like I got my diploma for nothing."
While the details differ from one nation to the next, the common element is failure—not just of young people to find a place in society, but of society itself to harness the energy, intelligence, and enthusiasm of the next generation. Here's what makes it extra-worrisome: The world is aging. In many countries the young are being crushed by a gerontocracy of older workers who appear determined to cling to the better jobs as long as possible and then, when they do retire, demand impossibly rich private and public pensions that the younger generation will be forced to shoulder.
