Posted on Oct 4, 2017
What everyone gets wrong about 'millennial snowflakes'
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Sorry. Not buying it. The Millennials are not the same as youth from previous generations. No, it's not because they are somehow genetically different. It's the environment in which they've grown up. To begin with, they have been raised by a previous generation that was flawed by their parents. The flaws have been cumulative. Also, they've been indoctrinated rather than educated. (Again, their parent's fault for allowing it to happen) Finally, they've been imbued with some wrong-headed attitudes, such as skilled craftsmen are deficient. Anyone lacking a college degree is deficient. (Once more, their parent's fault) These "kids" were hit by a triple-whammy before they ever got out of the basement (You'll have to check with Mammy Yokum to learn about "triple-whammies")
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Col Joseph Lenertz
I've admitted as much to my own kids. My parents made it clear I was an adult and on my own by 18, and I had jobs since 14 yrs old. Yet my wife and I "protected" our kids from this reality, so they got their first job later, and became self-sufficient adults later than previous generations. My fault, more than anything else.
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Maj John Bell
My first job was scrubbing out maggot infested dumpsters in the Arizona sun and heat, sandblasting them from the inside, and repainting them, for minimum wage. My second job was tarring roofs in the Arizona Sun and Heat for minimum wage. My third job was "ranch hand" mucking out stalls and chicken coops, installing fence, castrating pigs, goats, and sheep, putting up hay and fixing breaks in barbed wire fence, for minimum wage. I was grateful for every one of those jobs, because Dad didn't think he owed me any more than a roof overhead, food on the table, and clothes on my back. Fun money was something you made somewhere other than home.
Now I can't find a kid whose willing to weed a flower bed for less than $15 an hour. They show up late, leave early, and do a crappy job. It will take him or her two hours, to do what I could do in 30 minutes, and I have to put up with attitude when I tell them to put their cell phone away.
Now I can't find a kid whose willing to weed a flower bed for less than $15 an hour. They show up late, leave early, and do a crappy job. It will take him or her two hours, to do what I could do in 30 minutes, and I have to put up with attitude when I tell them to put their cell phone away.
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