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Old 01-20-2015, 05:26 PM
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As a younger guy (24), I can say I see this a lot in my peers. Now I don't have kids, and have no business telling anyone how to raise their own. But I just can't help but blame the parents for the most part. I've had a job since I was 12 or so. Or at least a summer job. My first job was with an uncle that's a watermelon farmer, got 20 bucks a day, just as much as Jose and Miguel were making beside me. And this was from strict instructions from my dad to my uncle. When school was out for the summer, most of my friends got to sleep all day and play playstation and what not, while I had to be up early and in bed early to work the next day. Most of my friends kinda thought my parents were d**ks for this, but I was used to it and didn't think anything of it. Looking back now, some of those same friends are the ones that you speak of. They were never taught any sort of work ethic, so how can you expect them to just all of the sudden after high school to just be a jam up hand, or student. Now I know plenty of other kids that never worked a day in their lives, and went to college and are now great employees. But these kids parents pushed them to succeed in school, sports, or something at least. Even though they didn't have to work an actual job to make money, at least they were working at something. Here's an example: I was fortunate enough to have my parents buy me an older trailer to stay in while I was in college. Well 2 years ago I graduated, and my parents needed to sell that trailer. So with no place of my own I quit my job bartending and waiting tables, and moved back home temporarily to do the whole job hunt thing. But I needed a paycheck for the time being and "plant experience" to help out on scoring a job with my degree. So a buddy of mine hooked me up with a contractor at a paper mill just down the road from my parents place. I was making 11 dollars/hr packing a weedeater for 10 hrs a day in mid-summer. With 6 years of college behind me. Well I made a few checks and was having to take off occasionally for interviews and all that jazz. Long story short, our site manager heard about me and made an available office position for me to fill temporarily. It's been less than 2 years and I've been through 3 different job titles with this same company, and I'm now making $17/hr more than my hire in date. If my boss would have not spotted my work ethic and humbleness, would I still be swinging that weedeater? God I would hope not, but if it was between that and not working at all, you bet your a** I'd be getting a check every week. And I have no one else to thank for that but my parents. Now I'm in the position I can help people get hired on fairly easy. It's crazy how many of my old friends that stayed back home that haven't worked in forever, will turn down jobs. Guess what these same kids were doing every summer... Be a parent, not their friend.
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