Working for minimum wage sucks.

[scduc]

Great message to send to the kid.

I'm not trying to be pessimistic, reality is that 10 years ago good jobs where plentiful. Employees had the upper hand. Nowadays, a college education doesn't mean sqwat. Finding a place that does not allow family is hard to find especially in manual labor field. Kids don't need life sugar coated. The sooner they realize that it's a jungle out there the better off they'll be.

[ZachDDill]

I'm not trying to be pessimistic, reality is that 10 years ago good jobs where plentiful. Employees had the upper hand. Nowadays, a college education doesn't mean sqwat. Finding a place that does not allow family is hard to find especially in manual labor field. Kids don't need life sugar coated. The sooner they realize that it's a jungle out there the better off they'll be.

I understand that, and that is exactly why I joined the military.

[Langanobob]

I understand that, and that is exactly why I joined the military.

 Good on you.  Thinking about the good and not so good decisions I've made over the years, joining the military is right up there at the top of the good ones.  The next good decision was using the GI Bill to go to school.  IMHO it is not true at all that it doesn't help to have a college degree these days.  In my case getting it completely and totally turned my life around.   It opens doors that I never even knew were there.

Bob

Edit: I should add that getting the bloody diploma was probably the hardest thing I've ever done, but worth it.

[Pip]

 Good on you.  Thinking about the good and not so good decisions I've made over the years, joining the military is right up there at the top of the good ones.  The next good decision was using the GI Bill to go to school. <snip>

+1

Well said, Bob.

[rockaduc]

I may have a size large HJC snowmobile helmet (you just remove the shield and put on a street bike shield for the conversion).  It has seen some use (a few seasons) before I bought the cat's meow of snowmobile helmets (The skiddo BV2S).
I may have left it at the PA house though.  I'll check and send a pm if it's here (NJ).

Sorry, no extra size large helmets here in NJ.  They must all be in PA and I don't plan to be there for a few weeks.

[sugarcrook]

In ye olde days, I charged clients what my time was worth.  As I gained experience I realized my time was fixed while the expertise I provided was invaluable.  Specialize and charge for the value you provide to the client, not for the amount of effort it takes you to provide that value. 

Suuuuuuuuuuuper drunk FWIW. 

[brimo]

Feel qualified to whine when you haven't got the cash to put food on the table for the kids, that's of course if you have a table or even a home to put it in.
Around this world of ours I have been up close and personal many times with real poverty, so someone complaining that they can't afford some luxury item kind of pisses me off.

[ungeheuer]

You were lucky!!

We used to live in a paper bag.........

[lethe]

You were lucky!!

We used to live in a paper bag.........

and had to walk to a school that was 50 miles away on roads made of salt and broken glass?

[rgramjet]

....it was uphill both ways....

[Raux]

and had to walk to a school that was 50 miles away on roads made of salt and broken glass?

barefoot right?

[lethe]

I'm fortunate enough to be making what I consider a nice amount of money now but back when all I could get were minimum wage jobs I worked more than one and slowly pushed forward into better and better ones with some occasional missteps that were setbacks.  Patience, perseverance and working your ass off will pay off so long as you don't expect immediate payoff.

[AdmiralKit]

Nothing will move you up from the bottom of the work ladder like learning how to bust your ass, having a marketable skill, and being able to make decisions and lead.  We're not in the same world as our parents grew up, and thus the lessons they taught us are not always applicable anymore.  I've never been in the military so I don't know how much power you have over what you get to do, but if you have any say over what you learn how to do, choose skills you can make money off of later.  They may not be the funnest jobs or the easiest jobs or the sexiest jobs, but they'll get you ahead in life in the long run.

[Popeye the Sailor]

I'm not trying to be pessimistic, reality is that 10 years ago good jobs where plentiful. Employees had the upper hand. Nowadays, a college education doesn't mean sqwat. Finding a place that does not allow family is hard to find especially in manual labor field. Kids don't need life sugar coated. The sooner they realize that it's a jungle out there the better off they'll be.

He's years out so planning for now is moot. Odds are if one gets a job from someone they know....it's someone they met in college.


College education is important because 99% of the management of most corporations think it is. They do not give a shit if you're capable-they want to see your piece of paper.

[ducpainter]

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