Posted on 07/29/2015 10:36:19 AM PDT by Kaslin
No matter when one lives there, though, it’s a beautiful neighborhood.
I think a big problem facing employers/businesses is the growing number of young Americans who have no interest in working at all. The ghetto mentality of living as a ward of the state for your whole life has taken hold among young whites, who now share the same pathologies of illiteracy, drug abuse, and out-of-wedlock births for the freebies...
My college-student son works in a grocery store; he also took the summer term at school.
The teenagers are Boy Scout camp counselors. Hopefully they can both get some of the year-round lifeguard jobs which will be opening up as the summer workers go back to college.
I didn’t quite get that lesson in high school. I was on a football scholarship and my GPA first year of college was 1.7. My next summer job was reaming out engine heads in a dirty, nasty plant with no AC. Lost 20 lbs that summer and I was already in shape. I would come home covered completely in black dust and go to bed. Hardest job I ever had.
GPA next year - 3.2 and on the dean’s honor roll. Worked that job 2 more summers, graduated with a 3.0 in engineering. My wife’s GPA also jumped up dramatically the year after we got married and she was making and delivering sub sandwiches. She got to experience both sides of it. Being the grunt labor and seeing the cheapskate business people who rarely left a tip. Our two son’s are in college now and we have made sure they got to work some “fun” jobs. I know they get tired of hearing the “builds character” speech.
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