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well, they are like woodypeckerhead - all wrapped up in their beak with

child emotions that will never change. Locked into being immature and

ignorant.

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well, they are like woodypeckerhead - all wrapped up in their beak with

child emotions that will never change. Locked into being immature and

ignorant.

Yeah? They have a great degree and a great job supervising people twice their age and are currently looking to purchase a home?

 

Emotions

 

 

 

"we saved America! Build the wall!" No emotions here

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Yeah? They have a great degree and a great job supervising people twice their age and are currently looking to purchase a home?

Emotions

"we saved America! Build the wall!" No emotions here

Not bad, at 24 I had 6 years in OH Maintenance in the mill and bought my first house, at 25 was a maintenance foreman but didn't start back to grad school until I was 28.

 

Keep making goals and objectives and go for it adjusting as necessary. I adjust every morning now being retired. :)

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Oh I can see how many millenials have problems like enormous student debt, video games and too comfortable couches in mom's basement.

 

But every generation has it's challenges.

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Yeah? They have a great degree and a great job supervising people twice their age and are currently looking to purchase a home?

 

Emotions

 

 

 

"we saved America! Build the wall!" No emotions here

yet, they can make money, but they have poor social relationships, and their feeble egos are fed by

belligerence and bragging about how they make money at their jobs.

 

yet....they would never make it through basic, not even for a week, to defend their country in time of war...

 

they would be labeled 4F-W,,as in, QuadrupleFarging Woodpeckeritis.

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Not bad, at 24 I had 6 years in OH Maintenance in the mill and bought my first house, at 25 was a maintenance foreman but didn't start back to grad school until I was 28.

 

Keep making goals and objectives and go for it adjusting as necessary. I adjust every morning now being retired. :)

I was married, had two kids and been in combat. Hell at 24 I already felt old.

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Oh I can see how many millenials have problems like enormous student debt, video games and too comfortable couches in mom's basement.

 

But every generation has it's challenges.

One reason they will have massive student debt his because they majored and stupid shit. That doesn't have an a waiting jobbs. Because they are snowflakes and think that a major in art-history or, yes woody, theater might be pretty lucrative.

And colleges expensive because some people stupidly believe that a degree will get you a good job. On top of that government subsidies drive-up the cost for people who have to pay for themselves.

So if your goal is a substantial salary pick a major that will get you one.

 

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Oh Jesus. This is fucking pointless. We've got a troll and a moron talking about how the new generation is bad. Why even bother wasting my time.

not the entire generation, that is an emotional knee jerk, woodpecker.

 

Truth is, plenty of young people join the military, have the courage of their convictions on family values, would never

hit a woman, love their country, have a great work ethic, do excellent in college, etc etc etcetc.

 

but the lazy, believe in nothing, whinyass birdbrain critical of everything, believe in nothing element in your generation,

is definately too high a percentage, most of them in college, pampered and spoiled to such a degree that they

don't have nads, they have pink eye of the brain. They are proud of what they don't care about, are proud of what

they DON'T believe in, like that is some kind of accomplishment.

 

They are the kids who think it's funny to throw their trash out the window of their car, roll through stop signs as

scare other drivers, and they sit around anywhere they are and whine that they aren't the center of everybody's attention.

They think that they are important, and nothing else is.

 

They are...woodpeckers (those are the most witless and gutless), and loners of this world, and the ultimate

stupidass bitchers and "VICTIMS" of everything - while blaming the rest of the world for what they don't have,

don't think, don't know, and don't care about.

 

They are a sizeable minority of losers. And having a degree and a job doesn't make them winners.

 

I believe they are called snowflakes because well before they accept any responsibility for

anything, before they have be a stand up person with honor, courage and integrity..

 

they melt faster than ice crystals on a ton tin roof.

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Their words......By his twenties, Kyle Kaylor imagined he would be living on his own, nearing a college degree, and on his way to a job that fulfilled him.

 

Instead, at 21, he found himself out of school, living with his parents, and "stuck" working as a manager at a fast food restaurant scraping to make hand-to-mouth.

 

Launching into adulthood has been tricky, he said.

 

"It became too difficult financially to be in school and not working," says Kaylor, who dropped out of Lincoln Christian University, in Illinois, after one semester because of a money crunch. "And without schooling, you can't get a job that you can survive on, so I had to move back home," he said.

 

It's a scenario that has become far too common, according to a new census report out Wednesday that reveals staggering statistics on millennials and their journey to independence.

 

For one, the report shows young men like Kaylor, who makes less than $22,000, have fallen by the wayside when it comes to income.

 

"In 1975, only 25 percent of men aged 25 to 34 had incomes of less than $30,000 per year. By 2016, that share rose to 41 percent of young men," according to the report.......

 

1975 the year I graduated college while working full time at a good job in a steel mill, great times!

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I remember it was about that time somewhere in the mid early seventies that my friend Craig and I were standing in line at good year. Rumor had it there were X amount of jobs to be had. As we stood in line that stretched way down the block, were discussing the fact that we would probably hate this job but if we got it we'd be set for the rest of our lives. Early-retirement free medical care pensions blah blah blah. Not only that but it paid a hell of a lot of money especially for a grunt job .And as a Union member it Would-be almost impossible to get fired. After an hour or two we got bored and went for a beer.

Recently we were thinking that the guys that got those jobs were probably umemployed relatively soon.

 

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I applied at Chevy, Ford, Republic Steel etc. When I got out of the Army in 1973. Unless you had a relative or friend no way to get hired.

Funny you mention 1973 that was when USSteel quit all hiring at the Youngstown Works, the Open Hearth/Blast Furnaces -and- McDonald Mills, I worked in both. In their heyday they employed about 15,000 all good jobs with pensions and benefits.

 

And my dad got my buddy and me into OH Maintenance at 18 in 1969 after one year in college as summer help but we both stayed on full time, the money was great I went to YSU part time after that.

 

Right before the end of approximately 50,000 good steel jobs in Youngstown 1977-1981ish and millions in the USA.

 

The death of good jobs in America was primarily due to unfair subsidized foreign dumping.

 

"The threat is real from foreign steel" bumper stickers didn't help.

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ah, back in the day. I applied at Goodyear - when I followed up, they said thousands had applied,

so I wasn't surprised when I didn't get a job in 1970 with no experience...

 

got a tool and die machinist apprenticeship for a year at a small shop... hated it...so bored...

 

and applied to Goodyear again. This time, they already had well over a thousand apps for three jobs...

worked at a Clarkins warehouse - the super was going to make me his replacement when he transferred,

but I quit to join the AF to make more money, etc, to help my parents have an income during a very bad, long

strike. My Dad retired from Goodyear.

 

So many people made a living working for Goodyear back in the day. Firestone crashed, Goodrich

crashed, Roadway (trucking company), I had applied there, and when I followed up, they had gotten

3,176 applications for 25 jobs - in IT. From most states in the U.S., and several other countries.

Nope, didn't get a job there, either... and then Roadway crashed. The steel mills crashed before the

rubber companies...

 

Just a mess.

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And we boomers (1946-1964) particularly early boomers had it much easier than all the following groups the X, Y, Millenials and now Z (born since 2000) and just coming out of high school.

 

I'm glad I'm retired now, we early boomers had it pretty good all things considered.

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And we boomers (1946-1964) particularly early boomers had it much easier than all the following groups the X, Y, Millenials and now Z (born since 2000) and just coming out of high school.

 

I'm glad I'm retired now, we early boomers had it pretty good all things considered.

we had it easy? No, we were just tougher, more resilient, more principled, we had a work ethic, we knew how to improvise

and solve problems......and complaining was not our lifestyle. Too many witless woodpecker young people have excuses for

mistakes and failures....and never learned consequences for their bad decisions.

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we had it easy? No, we were just tougher, more resilient, more principled, we had a work ethic, we knew how to improvise

and solve problems......and complaining was not our lifestyle. Too many witless woodpecker young people have excuses for

mistakes and failures....and never learned consequences for their bad decisions.

I was born in 1950, the 1946 to about 1952 (+/-) early boomers had a much easier time graduating high school and going directly into a good paying job in industry than following generations.

 

When GM built the Lordstown, OH plant in 1966 some guys went there, great money and some even pensioned out with 30+ years and went on to other things, some at 48-50.

 

Plus from 1968-1975 when I was in college tuition at a state school was dirt cheap, $150 per quarter for full time, parking card $5 a quarter and buy used text books when possible. One year at YSU was $450/year not like now.

 

I got into the mill in 1969 and rode it out until they closed in 1980 and moved on.

 

I guess it all depended on what you wanted to do.

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chances are, you're still a kid - I was born in December....1950. LOL

 

those days were more honorable for most. Back then, you could hunt pheasants in Ohio,

they were all over the place on farms. Later, all the farms sold out to the suburb developers.

 

too many kids today lack imagination - computers do it for them. and that leads to a serious lack of

knowing outdoor skills, etc. But I remember the dirt cheap college tuition days... due to the gas wars

here in Ohio..... it was 23 cents a gallon for a while....... didn't have to have a passport to go exploring the wilderness

in Canada....

 

Back in the seventies, we went to Canada, way up in Central Ontario, for our graduation trip. On the way up, we stopped at a gas station, and because the 4th of July was coming up, I bought a pack of firecrackers, to goof off on the fourth at camp.

But, it was so dry, I never opened the package. Turns out, we couldn't take em back across the border, and we couldn't

quite figure out what to do with em... and later, crossing the border, we forgot about em, and I stuffed em in my boots.

My buddies decided that if I got caught, they were going to leave me there and drive home and let me walk home if I

was in the pokey for more than one night. They loved my metallic maroon Chevy Belaire with the 250 straight six, 3 on the column

standard shift....

But, as much as they checked out our car, we were good.

 

Nowadays, they would have super sensitive electronic sensors that would have picked up the stupid firecracker jobbies,

and I would have been in trouble. That's about the only way kids today have it tougher than we did. :)

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Back in 1974, between the Army and when I went in the Navy, I drove with a friend and his uncle to Hamilton, Ontario. He was driving a truck (semi) to there to be dropped off. We followed him to take him back. While crossing back into the USA. They decided he (his uncle) looked suspicious I guess so they made us pull over and searched us. They found a roach clip and a holster (with no weapon) in his boot. That started a few hours of bullshit. They put us in rooms and strip searched us, included the bend over spread em and cough one. They then tore apart his car and xrayed it looking for drugs. After about 5 or 6 hours they let us go. Talk about a miserable trip.

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Im not sure if you'd consider me a millenial.
I am 22, turning 23 this year.

Yes I do live with my dad and his girlfriend, but I work two jobs, have a degree, have been on my own before. So I know the value of a dollar and that you got to work hard in life to pay your bills and live comfortably.

Imoved back in to save some money. Also going back to college this summer to get another degree.

 

I definitely do feel that our generation is lazy. There is absolutely no question.

 

However, there are many smart kids going out into the world and becoming successful.

I think when one reaches a certain age, they realize what they need to do to "move up" in the world.
It is hard when you have alot of the youth unmotivated, uninspired, and unhinged.

 

We expect technology to solve our issues when in fact, they themselves are the ones who need to apply the knowledge to their lives.

 

We have answers at the tips of our fingers, yet everyone is so dumb..

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