Gee wizz.

posted November 29th, 2015 at 6:01 PM

Is it me, or do all the youngens these days expect to invent a website, app or start-up and make a million bucks, instead of bending their back, sweating for 8 hrs and doing an honest days work. Learning a few life skills like changing a flat tire, cutting a piece of timber with a hand saw, trouble shooting a car that won't start, or heaven forbid, cooking a decent meal will get you places. I'm only in my mid thirties and can't get my head around how people don't find these skills as necessities. Is it a generation X, Y or 'millenial' gap, or am I going to be a grumpy 40 year old in five years time, cutting my own fire wood, instead of buying it from a service station and taking it home in the back of my Mini Cooper?

4 Comments

It gets better.

Nov 29, 2015 at 8:56pm

You think things are bad now? The next generation won't even know how to use a pen or pencil.

lmao

Nov 29, 2015 at 9:28pm

Someone in their 30s complaining about "youngens".

You're Gen Y dude.

Eventually you'll get to a place where instead of resenting the younger generation, you'll be chuckling at the thought that soon enough they'll be at an age where they're thought of as "old" and will be resenting the next younger generation.

Also grumpy

Nov 29, 2015 at 9:44pm

Younguns are flocking to tech to make money because that's the new economy. No way would you or I have been able to make tens of thousands of dollars a month on social media when we were their age. Plus there are fewer jobs doing "honest" work nowadays that aren't already secretly filled by TFW's. And not all "honest" work hires you for 8 hours a day anymore: they sprinkle 4-hour shifts randomly throughout the week such that you can't schedule another part-time job and you always run the risk of them calling and cancelling your shift. I have a differently-abled friend who has been looking for honest, 8-hours-a-day work for at least the past year. It's tough out there!

I do agree with you about the life skills. But the younguns don't have these skills because their parents told them to focus all their energies on university and academics. They don't have time to learn these life skills when they're getting shuttled from school to extra-curriculars to tutoring to home. It's never to late to learn, though, so here's hoping. I come from an academic background and I used my learning skills to teach myself life skills later on in life.