Perhaps not, but what about all those unemployed millenials living in their childhood bedrooms we always hear about. Starting when I was 16 and before I learned my profession, I worked as a mover, a kiln chipper, a switchman and hostler helper, a lot staker, and a lathe operator. Several of these jobs were not particuarly pleasant, but they brought in money and allowed me to get on with my life.
Have young people today lost the ability and desire to take the sometimes unpleasant entry level jobs that Mike Rowe is talking about?
During the Carter years I took a temporary job at a plant that did “grease extraction”. I had no idea what that meant. They cooked rotten chicken heads, guts, feet and feathers and turned it into a protein powder.
At age 14 I worked 7 days a week at a swimming pool cleaning and handing out baskets all for $5 a week (all the pretty girls in bikinis were a fringe benefit). I also sacked groceries, fixed flats, pumped gas, washed cars, cleared brush, mowed lawns and one summer I worked in hot attics as an electrician’s gofer....got paid $5 a day working from 7 to 6. If I got Saturday afternoon off I was docked $2.50. The only one that paid minimum wage was sacking groceries. Too many kids, and adults, today don’t want to work.
Certainly!
As you know, hard work ain't easy.