Posted on 04/20/2017 12:55:11 PM PDT by LoneStarGI
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.
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The other factor is the rapid loosening of social mores.
If Mom & Dad will allow you to have a guest of the
opposite sex spend the night in your bed, where’s the
incentive to get up and out of the house?
Ping for later reading.
I agree.
I think you hit the nail on the head. Parents do not realize they cannot protect their little darlings forever. Trying to do so means they never begin the transition from education to actual work and standing on their own feet. I am not going to say my parents did not help me, they allowed me to remain at home while going to college while I held a job and I helped defray some home expenses. The help came when I graduated, they returned to me all the money I had contributed to the home as a get started fund! It was a surprise. I did well because of that plus God has always watched out for me.
There are millions of jobs that require skill and not an education and they pay well, too. Plumbers, cabinet makers, auto and diesel mechanics, electricians, furniture makers, and HVAC repairmen just to name a few.
“... nearing a college degree, ...”
“...says Kaylor, who dropped out of Lincoln Christian University, in Illinois, after one semester...”
Hmmmm.... I believe I see the problem. Kaylor confuses wants with reality. This kind of magical thinking also affect a young woman mentioned in the article. She has a master’s, but is only making $700/mo. The article avoids mentioning what her major was, but we can all guess.
Someone would have to paint my body to make it transition to “in demand”.
A short stint in the military usually works wonders on a young man.
“Managers” at a fast food place make more than $22,000 a year.”
So? It ain’t like that is still a lot of money. In actual buying power I would say it falls considerably below that of a person earning the minimum wage of $1.25 an hour for forty hours a week back in 1963.
Yesterday morning there was an excellent interview on Fox and Friends of the CEO of Snap-On Tools. He addressed this issue of everyone allegedly needing a college degree, which they don’t. He’s glad that Trump is making in possible for blue collar workers to achieve the true American Dream, and gain respect once again in America.
When was the last time you heard the term OJT ?
An 18 year old with no training starts at the bottom. If he is ambitious and applies himself, he will learn quickly, and be eligible for state of federal certification in his trade.
The more skills and certs, the more money he can make.
A neighbor runs a construction company. He has a steady stream of people that want a job, most don’t last 3 days as it is “too much work”.
One guy that has been with him for more than 10 years doing the same stuff these quitters are asked to do, makes close to 100,000 a year. I have seen him work, and he earns every penny.
The work is out there, but it is WORK. No one walks into a job as the boss, and nothing will be given to you because you are “special”.
Looking at the percentages the ‘parent’s home’ category has changed less than the other ones.
That highlights a larger but related problem.
At one time it was accepted that not everyone was college material.
Entry and graduation requirements were enforced and when you earned your diploma it signified that you had been educatied and gained knowledge to a certain level.
But political correctness and leftist fantasies of equality changed that with programs like Affirmative Action and racial set-asides.
Now high school students who can't even read, write and speak at the high school level are being pushed, and accepted, into college.
And in order to pass them through to graduation the colleges have had to dumb down entry requirements as well as graduation requirements.
How many of us have worked with some of these "college graduates" who have almost zero knowledge, skills or ability?
Many cannot even do basic math, write a legible memo, speak inteeligibly or do simple, basic tasks.
I have worked with some who could not even make change on a retail sale without a computer cash register telling them how much change to return to the customer.
It is a disservice to the students and society at large to push low IQ people through college if they are going to come out at the other end with a meaningless sheepskin and no real knowledge or education.
Think about the stupidity of people like Congressman Hank Johnson ('Hope Guam doesn't tip over'), Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee ('American flag on Mars') and Congresswoman Maxine Waters.
All three have college degrees but are as dumb as a bag of rocks.
My point is the reporter is fibbing/stretching the truth about a easily researched “fact”.
If this fact is wrong, the entire article should be in question.
I’m not questioning there plenty of lazy millenials out there.
But I know plenty of 25 year olds making 45,000 a year. Now do they deserve that? That is a different story.
repairing tagline.
***”And without schooling, you can’t get a job that you can survive on,***
Yes you can, but it requires EFFORT!
Put Mike Roe in charge of the Department of Education during the phasing out process.
“Other” is going to include the people who’ve joined the military or who live in a dorm.
You know my story! (-:
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