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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

kids don’t want to work these days

Work at these shitty jobs? No, they don't, and I don't blame them!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I pumped gas up hill, both ways, all summer when I was 16 and used the money to pay for college, buy a house, and invest in oil. You just need to try harder.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I guess I'm lucky to live & work somewhere where the system kinda works, but the boomers are a great well of institutional knowledge, and the kids are working hard and changing the game. The ball was kind of dropped in the late 90s & 00s, but now millennials have surpassed gen x in terms of responsibility & authority in my industry and the zoomers I've had the opportunity to train are legit. I'm not sure what happened to gen x, but they all seem kind of sad and/or lost.