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This Father's day I was out and about at Home Depot, Apple Bees, and even local stores. Hell even a pizza joint I frequent had help wanted signs. I am starting to think people do not need to work, are leeching off family, welfare state, or are in the Fairfax black market.
Daddy will buy me a new car, and a new I phone, a new lap top, send me on vacation with my friends, buy me new clothes, give me 3 credit cards to use, pay for my gas, provide me medical insurance, and an allowance of $500 a week.
I am addicted to painkillers, alcohol, and group sex with black men. I flunked out of Radford after 1 semester, and it is beneath me to do menial work.
Original Poster, That is a great question! It just sucks I guess. With all the effortless entertainment, and instant gratification, work just feels bad to some people. Perhaps the pay is not significant enough. This area is definitely an expensive place to live, not to mention most kids go to college on mommy and daddy's tab, where they learn things. Something I would love is a good work ethic, and once I get started I do have one. But when someone asks me to do a job at the house, it's like asking me while I'm on vacation. Then again, lots of people work on vacation too. I will admit it, we've probably been spoiled.
Another theory that my friends and I have is that the latest generations are not as equipped because of the year the Nintendo Gamecube was released. Once that was out, young kids really started playing video games; rather than going out on adventures, and socializing. If anyone happens to be one of those kids, my advice to you is start going on real life quests and adventures, rather than virtual ones. Stay safe out there!
Why do people who came of age with very affordable college, on the job apprenticeship, affordable rents and housing prices, not understand what these people are suffering or care? All it means to you is that you might get taxed higher so, you go out of your way to complain about their cellphones and "entitlement".
So why don't millennials want to work? Same reason women are dropping out of the dating market & why there are 300 horny guys for every 1 woman online, they aren't being respected or getting what they should be out of the arrangement.
When I initially moved here, I made 15/hr fulltime. That type of money would be decent other places but not here. I was barely surviving on that even as a single person no kids. a couple traffic tickets and some other unexpected bills and I was devastated. Lived in my car for awhile till I could get back on my feet. Unless you have connects here or are already rich, this is not the pkace for you. Unless your someone the state deems special and pays all your bills.
Millenials want to be freelancers and "be their own boss." There was a whole segment on that on NPR today. The traditional full time job with benefits is too stifling, too phony. Go to any hipster, independent coffee shop in DC or a "coworking" cafe in the middle of the day and you'll see what I mean.
cloe Wrote:
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> Why do people who came of age with very affordable
> college, on the job apprenticeship, affordable
> rents and housing prices, not understand what
> these people are suffering or care? All it means
> to you is that you might get taxed higher so, you
> go out of your way to complain about their
> cellphones and "entitlement".
> So why don't millennials want to work? Same reason
> women are dropping out of the dating market & why
> there are 300 horny guys for every 1 woman online,
> they aren't being respected or getting what they
> should be out of the arrangement.
Not being respected? No getting your way?
What the hell kind of excuse is that Cloe?
Get your frickin' lazy atrse out there and find a job!
I'm Voting for Trump Wrote:
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> I could never figure out why I had to go to 7-11
> to get someone to mow my lawn.
>
> When I was a kid (late 70s early 80s), I knocked
> on door to mow lawns.
>
> Now, all the teenagers walk around like zombies,
> staring at their phones for important updates on
> their lives.
>
> George Soros tells the kids what to do.
In the early 70's I mowed lawns in Potomac, between 20 or 40 bucks a lawn depending on size. My dad bought the mower and I paid him back in a week. Bought a brand new Pontiac LeMans in the first summer. Got a great tan, met and hooked up with lots of hot women. Life was good for a couple years and had plenty of time to party.
Not Juan Wrote:
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> In the early 70's I mowed lawns in Potomac,
> between 20 or 40 bucks a lawn depending on size.
> My dad bought the mower and I paid him back in a
> week. Bought a brand new Pontiac LeMans in the
> first summer. Got a great tan, met and hooked up
> with lots of hot women. Life was good for a couple
> years and had plenty of time to party.
>
> No ambition in today's youts.
Starting in 1971 I started cutting grass in the summer, and shoveling snow in the winter. I got a true customer base of older folks who paid me 5 -10 bucks to cut the lawn, and shoveling drive ways were 10 - 20 depending on the size. That don't sound like much, but an 11 year old making 120 per week tax free in 1971 wasn't bad.
I banked everything, and when I turned 16 I bought a 1970 Plymouth Cuda with a 383 Magnum with 38,000 miles on it - Cash. One of the coolest cars in HS.
I drove that car through college, and I sold it in 1982 for almost as much as I paid for it. Because I earned the money to buy the car, I took good care of it, and never wrecked it.
Kids today don't work for much - Except grades, and the courses have been dumbed down.
You are asking the wrong question. Millenials want to work, but they (we) don't want just any job, they want better paying jobs with better benefits that also lead to opportunities for promotion. I think it's safe to assume it's not just Millenials that want that kind of job, it's everyone. I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing, but some are too choosy when considering jobs. People now expect to graduate college, or even high school, and get a job that pays above $30,000 a year, has benefits and vacation leave. That's unrealistic, especially in this economy. I started out working shit jobs at Barnes & Noble and Joe's Pizza before I moved my way to an administrative position with a municipal government. Most millenials and younger couldn't and wouldn't abide by that.
I've hired many millenial's over the last 15 years and with few exceptions, they wont work a 40 hour week, expect to start at the top but can't complete simple task. They want to run their own businesses, but don't understand the long hours, dedication and knowledge needed to succeed. In spite of resume's heavy with supervisory experience, they can't seem to get to work on time. In spite of working with part time dedication, they still manage to sport $400 Michael jordens while talking on their $400 I phones and getting to work in late model pimped out Honda's. Between their moms, their girlfriends, and their baby mama's, they get on quite nicely. And as soon as they get in front of the judge to assert their child custody rights, they will get the court to tell them how much of their part time income they will be required to qive to their baby mama to help out with the kid. While I'm sure there are millennial's that do just fine, I've seen too many that leave me yearning for the days when as a society that we had less and did more.
Baby boomers are the most arrogant people to ever walk. Smart, give them credit for that, master manipulators- almost a cult-leader mindset in most of them.
When they call millennials entitled, they are not saying that they are entitled as human beings but, entitled for what they wish for them & how they view them- as slaves who need to STFU and change their diapers.
How dare a slave have a cellphone, a car and sneakers! OMG! People who sucked up all the real estate, inflated prices are miffed that M's have a CELLPHONE!
They put them down for thinking they should all be their own boss. They were programmed since birth that only business owners have any rights on this planet, or deserve to exist. Everybody else is making $10/hr to benefit some baby boomer.
Their elders did not treat them like this, they looked out for them, tried to make the world a better place for them. Baby boomers took everything for themselves, shut the door behind them and pillaged the earth to their benefit & no one elses.
Millennial men are all masturbating to porn, that the boomers created and profit from, while the boomer men are paying your women for sex, they have left them that desperate in life. And they aren't talking to guys their own age. These people are sickos.
Baby boomers give two shits about pending social security crisis and increased taxation on millennials. Some try to assuage their guilt by letting them live at home until 29 while they live to 100 on Medicare - taxes that target young.
Boomers have a huge voting block in AARP -- hurting disenfranchised millennials.
Finally, boomers here in Washington and NOVA, wont leave their GS jobs as they live to 106, wasting tax payer money with unproductive internet surfing. As a result, millennials cant get into the system, because gov doesn't fire old folks.
Wake up millennials, boomers are eating you alive, why pay their social security when they have barely paid into the system?
Do you know 75% of boomer have their houses paid off while millennials struggle to co-share apartments and pay inflated rents?
The average baby boomer, receives Medicare and SSI benefits way more than they ever contributed. The excesses, are taken from the young.
Obama ignored the Simpson Bolles Commission report to raise retirement age. You fucking boomers living too long - sorry to say. And you are getting free medical care on us hardworking millennials.Why didnt you save any money? Stop golfing and drinking on our dime you bloated pigs!
Shut up and die already!
That's why I freelance blog from Starbucks -- so I can get payments via Paypal and avoid FICA.
Check this article out for facts:
Sorry, Seniors, You Didn't Pay for (All of) That
FORBES:
Chris Conover
I explode myths that pervade health policy debates.
Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own.
The AARP—formerly known as the American Association of Retired Persons—is shamelessly (and irresponsibly) trying to convince seniors to run to their members of Congress to prevent cuts to Medicare. Why? Because “we worked hard for those benefits; we earned them.”
Would that this were true! Reality is that promises to Medicare recipients vastly exceed the payroll taxes to be collected from those receiving them to the tune of $105 trillion!
Talking about trillions, tens of trillions, or hundreds of trillions of dollars makes most people’s eyes glaze over. It’s simpler to talk about individual Medicare recipients. Fortunately, researchers at the Urban Institute have done these difficult calculations and produced some eye-opening numbers. They have calculated the lifetime payroll taxes and lifetime benefits for both Social Security and Medicare, showing that the AARP claim that seniors have “earned” their Medicare is less than a half truth at best.
The reality is that a male earning an average wage over his lifetime will receive from Medicare lifetime benefits in retirement that amount to $180,000.[1] Lifetime Medicare taxes for this average male would have amounted to only $61,000. Thus, over a lifetime, such an individual would have “earned” through payroll taxes only about one-third of their Medicare benefits. For a female earning the average wage, the situation faces even great discrepancy. Because she will live longer, her lifetime benefits will amount to $207,000 even though she will have paid in the identical amount of payroll taxes over a lifetime. In short, she will collect $146,000 more in benefits than the taxes she paid into the Medicare trust fund.
They paid into Social Security, and it's their money. People like you and the crooked politicians is why SS should be eliminated and everyone paid out what they put it in. You can't guarantee my money will be there for me then why the fuck would I ever want to pay into that system?
If you paid into it you should be able to invest it the way you want to. Why leave it to the government? Might as well put it into a no interest savings account.
Id rather put my SSI into google instead of taxes.
Fuck socialism.
FrankR, you should get exactly what you paid in; nothing more and nothing less. For that matter you should have never been forced to contribute.
Actually Choices, you maybe right, many of the millennials are getting social security disability, so that is how they are getting it early. (easily abused)
But there is no denying that the old are eating the young under the current system.
Retail managers are cunts. In the professional jobs i have had the best bosses are those with higher degrees. The 2 black managers and 1 colombian woman i had in retail and a bank were the worst bosses i ever had. 1 worked his way up, 1 graduated from a foreign college and the other graduated from howard.
Free lunch Wrote:
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> This Father's day I was out and about at Home
> Depot, Apple Bees, and even local stores. Hell
> even a pizza joint I frequent had help wanted
> signs. I am starting to think people do not need
> to work, are leeching off family, welfare state,
> or are in the Fairfax black market.
>
> Retail is dying and customer service is dead.
>
> Check how many businesses cant fill jobs.
Millenials want their cut. They drive up wages. They are a higher level of intelligence. They don't need unions. They are independently individual unions that work in concert.
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Not Juan Wrote:
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> I'm Voting for Trump Wrote:
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> -----
> > I could never figure out why I had to go to
> 7-11
> > to get someone to mow my lawn.
> >
> > When I was a kid (late 70s early 80s), I
> knocked
> > on door to mow lawns.
> >
> > Now, all the teenagers walk around like
> zombies,
> > staring at their phones for important updates
> on
> > their lives.
> >
> > George Soros tells the kids what to do.
>
> In the early 70's I mowed lawns in Potomac,
> between 20 or 40 bucks a lawn depending on size.
> My dad bought the mower and I paid him back in a
> week. Bought a brand new Pontiac LeMans in the
> first summer. Got a great tan, met and hooked up
> with lots of hot women. Life was good for a couple
> years and had plenty of time to party.
>
> No ambition in today's youts.
Ffx millennial here:
Yes I took 3 classes at Nova, which consisted of the teacher handing out a URL with all the projects for the semester. It was basically an online class. If you're not getting hands on training (ex nurse, dentistry, etc) you're better off learning from an online school or through experience. Ive worked 2 part time jobs simultaneously since junior year of high school ended, now I have been hired as a visual marketer with a handful of local small businesses. Not all millenials are sitting on their ass taking dabs playing xbone.
My 2 cents as a borderline millenial/gen-x depending on who's counting what year...
The pay is too damn low and the rent is too damn high. $15 an hour may be too high to flip burgers but to even begin to make a living in the DC metro, one needs AT LEAST $12 an hour to have a CHANCE at making a life for themselves...
Let's say you work at a big box store. Respectable for being a college kid- but let's be real being paid $8 for 20 hours a week will NOT rent you the cheapest apartment- nor will it barely pay half of said rent (avg. 2 bedroom apartment in fairfax is now about $1400 a month). $8 an hour 20 hours a week = $160 pre tax, $130 post- tax. On top of that- Obamacare. Another $200 or so a month. Ok, so work 2 jobs and make 40 hours. Nope, no can do with that "just in time" scheduling where they don't put up the schedule until the last possible minute so it's impossible to plan what your day off is, much less your hours off to fit in another job. Ok, get a raise to $12 an hour (average starting pay for an administrative/data entry/"office" job) and work 40 hours. Nope, same boat. Take home $350/week after taxes, $1400 a month. Rent, -$700 obamacare, - $200 have to live off of <$500 a month for transportation, student loan repayment, etc etc.
Best to stay either living with family or on section 8 for cheap/no rent, get medicaid and collect a small amount of welfare or simply live off college student loans, or find a sugar mamma/daddy to help pay bills which a lot of people do around here!
More money- more problems. If you make 6 figures, but blow every penny on your stupid house (if no one comes to see you or spend a lot of time so you could live in great falls and your friends still don't visit you, it ain't your house it's YOU same with your car if you push a BMW but no friends ever want to ride with you you are wasting your money and you SUCK) you are not better off than the person who only makes $30k a year, but has NO DEBT and lives with family so is able to save half their income every year!!
Stay debt free (dont fall into the new car every 3 years trap or having to have the biggest house among your friends or blowing $30k on student loans every year when a state school will do) and life will be MUCH easier and stress free.
Also its good to have FUCK YOU money- job gets too annoying/overbearing? You can say "FUCK YOU", quit on the spot, and coast a few months to find something else knowing you have the security of a few months living expenses in the bank so you don't have to rush to take the first job available and possibly be stuck in a shittier situation!!
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