[2ndDivisionVet]

Wow!

[Paladin2]

It's good for being a wage and tax slave.

Have a nice life.

[Jet Jaguar]

BTTT

[hoagy62]

What good is a job?

Earning your own way without suckling at the govt. teat.

Self respect.

That’s two.

[ScubieNuc]

There is no one “right” answer to kids and jobs. My oldest son didn’t have a steady job while in High School (he did mow some neighbors yards and do some haying in the area) and we only bought the necessary stuff for him. He knew that if he wanted extras he had to get a job. We also paid him (and our other children) for their grades ($10 for A’s, $5 for B’s) and that pretty much all he earned. Now he is working an average of 80 hours a week in the Army. He is a hard worker and a great young man.

My middle son, wants more, so he did go out and get a steady job. All of my children have gotten good grades and participate in sports.

So I don’t have a problem with treating school as the child’s job, but I can see how some parents “pay” their children WAY, WAY too much for school. I am not going to make them completely become a member of the rat race before they have to. I think if they can enjoy their childhood, then you should let them. They have the rest of their life to be a worker drone/taxpayer, IMHO.

[ClearCase_guy]

BTTT

[grey_whiskers]

I wish that this article could be reproduced in injectable form and administered to the idiots I saw protesting in Madison, Wisconsin over the weekend.

Cheers!

[Snake65]

My first job at thirteen was helping a neighbor train and care for his field-show labrador retrievers. Two or three hours of standing in Minnesota's mosquito-infested cattails throwing targets, gathering leeches. On a really hot day he'd give me half a beer when I was done. Then back to get the burrs off their coats, spray out the kennels, and feed the crew. Pay was five bucks and a sunburn. Every once in a while he'd let me pop off a few shells from a 20 ga. over-and-under. The dogs would stare at the spot where they heard the shot strike as if they were trying to will a fallen bird into existence.

It was awesome. Still one of the greatest jobs I ever had.

[WOBBLY BOB]

It’s good for paying the federal nomenklatura to do all the fantastic things they do for us peasants.

[familyop]

My point is that many young people need to be taught to manufacture essential products and to compete. I’m one of the rare few older adults doing just that.

As for most of my non-engineering, non-technical Baby Boomer peers, we’ll have no use for you in the near future (or those who don’t teach young folks). Enough young people will learn enough of civics (which current leadership tries to keep away from them) to make things more right (and less left than both political parties keep things now). Hopefully, Social Security and pensions for service and admin. careers will be halted at soon, and probably will after the big default.