July 06, 2009
Rocket Surgery FTW!
Blah blah blah recent graduates and kids on summer break can't find work (caution NY Times article)
Actually, this is an interesting point about unemployment numbers and the like. But that's not what caught my eye. This is.
Then there's this:
Look, it sucks for the kids to be in this position. It really really does. But mayhap some reality smacking will do some of them some good.
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Actually, this is an interesting point about unemployment numbers and the like. But that's not what caught my eye. This is.
"Mr. Ehrenfeld, 20, moved back home to Vernon, Conn. Even the local Boston Market had no work. Mr. Ehrenfeld, a top student who has always held leadership positions in clubs and academic groups, loafs through days, rolling out of bed around 11 and reading or playing trumpet or guitar. Nights, he sometimes meets up with friends who also have nowhere that they have to be in the morning, and they share a few cheap beers. “At worst, misery continues to have company,†he said."
Nice job admitting to underage drinking to the entire universe! And admitting that your friends are providing alcohol to a minor! Gooooo you! Look, it's stupid stupid stupid that the drinking age is 21. But it is. Have the sense God gave a rock not to get the NY Times to print that you're blissfully ignoring that. Then there's this:
“They were always given trophies just for showing up,†he (some expert dude) said. “Now,
they’re being told ‘no’ when they really want a job or an internship.â€
Bingo bango. This is the generation that were told that they were the best and brightest and everyone they want is theirs, just ask. (Yes, that's a huge overstatement and I can safely presume the parents in the Moron Horde don't do that) To be smacked in the face with reality must truly suck. I've always been thankful that my parents made me work for what I wanted, including standing in the fields picking blueberries with the migrant workers at a family friend's farm. It's made me very very grateful that I now "work" by sitting on my ass and thinking all day. But I've always been realistic that sometimes you have to take a shitty job because it pays the bills. Look, it sucks for the kids to be in this position. It really really does. But mayhap some reality smacking will do some of them some good.
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