Being a Young, American Adult Is a Financial Nightmare
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If the editor wants to evoke sympathy for young adults and their financial difficulties, they may want to chose a picture of someone other than a white trash couple with two dozen tattoos between them. At least have the dude put on a t-shirt.
People like that have always been broke. When you look like trash, you typically don't knock down $150k/yr.
Would you hire those two for anything other than low wage, service sector work?
People like that have always been broke. When you look like trash, you typically don't knock down $150k/yr.
Would you hire those two for anything other than low wage, service sector work?
Have to agree. Hate to judge by looks, but I don't know a single above average successful person who is tatted up (one or two small "college" tats in obscure places maybe, but that "body art" crap screams "don't hire me").
Also, if that dude is broke, why is he covered in $1000's of dollars worth of ink? People waste their money on stupid shit then complain that they don't have any money!
White trash like that will always complain about money.
They make choices early on in life to put ink all over. And even with ink on your chest and back you can still find a job, but no...they go the extra mile and put it on their hands, legs,forearms.
hopefully they are smart enough to figure out how to manage their situation so that they can collect the max amount of welfare money. Supplement that with growing a few plants of weed and selling it and they should be OK, but they are probably not smart enough to figure that out.
They make choices early on in life to put ink all over. And even with ink on your chest and back you can still find a job, but no...they go the extra mile and put it on their hands, legs,forearms.
hopefully they are smart enough to figure out how to manage their situation so that they can collect the max amount of welfare money. Supplement that with growing a few plants of weed and selling it and they should be OK, but they are probably not smart enough to figure that out.
All bullshit aside the fact that 50% + of all 18 to 24 year old individuals are not working or in school is very telling. It DOES suck to be a youngster in this economy. Back in the early 80's when I was this age I could find a job without a problem. Kids these days do not have the same opportunity.
Most kids have HAD the opportunity to make something of themselves and passed on it. That and the fact that we have too many people in the country for everyone to have a well-paying job who might otherwise qualify for one.... partly due to excessive "social support".
The potential, however, for a young person with gumption is particularly good.... not because there are so many opportunities, but rather because his peers are so few.
I dunno. I think school made a big change some decades back.
Used to be school was highly competitive. (Perhaps that was because people understood they'd better work if they expected to eat.) But some time ago, we stopped being competitive and kids were taught "everybody is special", "there are no winners/losers, everybody gets a trophy", "everybody is entitled". As a result, kids didn't become proficient in math and English, didn't learn to work hard for good grades.... then faced the shock of the competitive real world when they entered the job force and were not prepared.