I am beginning to see quite a few help wanted signs on business doors, entry level jobs. The issue will be can they pass drug and basic background checks? I am hearing from people that hire the problem is not getting people to apply- it is that so many cannot pass a drug test! I have no idea how we deal with that.
This is how you learn to deal with problems these days, for many people: drug yourself senseless. They don't seem to realize that the problem you sought to escape will still be there when you come down. They don't seem to realize that while drugged, they can't learn anything in school properly or perform a job properly. And that by getting the drugs, they are usually breaking the law, which adds convictions to the mix. They are working, all right---to make themselves unemployable. The only thing they leave themselves open for is stealing stuff. Great.
Well, I do not feel like supporting stupid people who made very bad decisions for the rest of their miserable lives. I worked HARD to get everything that I got---nothing was handed to me. And now that I'm retired, I deserve to enjoy the fruits of that labor--not hand over my income to weakling bums for whom life itself is too h-a-r-d. Perhaps the military could open up a new branch of the service for these unemployable bums and teach them a marketable skill, while they perform menial tasks to free up the actual fighting men and women. I would not trust such people to be able to follow orders (discipline doesn't seem to be their strong suit, right?) well enough to be trusted with weapons or higher order tasks. Perhaps being in such a discipline-rich environment will let some of that rub off on them.
I was in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago.
Drove by an In and Out Burger. They had a Help Wanted Sign in the Window, starting Pay $16 an Hour.
I noticed a whole bunch of Help Wanted Signs everywhere we went, even in Sausalito.