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I was born in 85 and consider myself lucky that the internet and social media hadn't taken off properly until I made it out of school, even mobiles came late enough in my youth I could still memorise landline telephone numbers.
It's funny, when I was a kid me and my friends were out riding dirt bikes, bicycles and raising a little bit of hell. Ive been brought home by the police a few times as a kid doing dumb stuff. You don't see that anymore. I've been in law enforcement since 2010 and the only time I have seen a significant amount of kids outside their home was when that Pokemon now thing was popular. A damn cell phone app is the only thing that gets kids out of the house. It's crazy.
- Allowed education to become extremely expensive (harder to go away to school).
- Allowed healthcare to become ridiculously expensive (to the point it will bankrupt us if we fuck around).
- Kept minimum wage at a laughable low (how do we buy fun shit?).
- Drastically raised housing prices (hard to save when you make shit all; unless of course you want to take on even more debt).
- Convinced all of us that ISIS will brutally murder us if we travel overseas.
- Convinced all of us that we should be so afraid of our neighbors that we all need guns to protect ourselves.
And we wonder why kids these days are having less fun? We can sit here all we want and blame technology, like people blamed books back in the day ("put down that book and go outside"), but as proven with books, technology (when viewed from a larger scope) breaks down more walls than it builds.
All said, I'm an 85' kid, and I've found a way to break through a lot of that stuff to live a pretty fun life. Travel a ton both domestically and internationally, I get out and play in the dirt as much as I can, have a pretty fun job, make decent money, etc. but the amount of fear when talking to people of the similar generational title is alarming. Fear of funds, fear of terrorism, fear of neighbors, etc.... it's depressing and we only have ourselves to blame; we let fear win.
Growing up we did stupid shit all the time, ride dirt bikes, bmx, snowmobiling, pick up hockey, etc. Hell we'd get bored at 2 or 3 in the morning and just go for bike rides and be gone for hours. No care in the world.
I'd be interested if it has anything with where you grew up. City, suburbs, country? We grew up in a very small town out in the country and I wouldn't change it for anything in the world. I don't have kids but if I ever do I'm moving back to the country.
As far as cell phones in high school not many people had them. I couldn't even imagine being in high school these days. I know I couldn't be a teacher. Kids don't seem to have much respect and on their phones all the time. I'm a patient guy but when I'm talking to someone and they're playing with their phones it just pisses me off. Kids would just piss me off and I'd just tell them to STFU. I was a bit of an asshole myself but not in school. So kudos to all the teachers out there for dealing with little asshole's all over the world.
Good post by the way
As KW spoke about technology, I love it and it has made life easier for me in many ways. However, I feel like the same amount of fear has always been around. Because of technological advancements, it's so much easier to stay connected to the fear/issues that is being reported on. We decide to stay connected.
Pit Row
I find that nothing pisses me off more than being from a small town where almost every person over 40 thinks that kids these days are lazy and worthless, I honestly think the opposite. What a selfish and depressing way of viewing the world that is.
Here's an excerpt from an essay I wrote last year about my time working at Les Schwab (a tire shop for those not on the west side of the US). I was 18 while the next youngest employee was 30, we would burn through about 2-3 employee's a month because they didn't pay a livable starting wage for anybody over 21. He wouldn't hire anybody younger than 23. Most 23 year old's trying to find a job at $10 an hour probably weren't the best employees or had some reason they couldn't get a higher paying job. I saw that dilemma play out first hand, I worked there for 2 years.
"The manager would constantly complain about “entitled millennials”, and how they don’t like to work hard or have any type of work ethic. While I can’t totally disagree with the fact that kids between the ages of 18-24 may be less respectful and have less of a work ethic, nothing makes me more frustrated than hearing that from my elders. 98% of the time, it is managers or bosses that you hear this complaint from. First of all, when the baby boomers were fresh out of high school, you cannot tell me that the majority of them just had an incredible work ethic that kids today seem to not have… They were the same, they weren’t mature enough to understand how the world works. Just the same as millennials today. Second point, kids are a product of their reality. What generation raised these “kids”? Could it be that the same ones complaining about the “kids these days” are the same ones who raised them? Maybe their son/daughter was raised right, while everyone else who was raised by their peers wasn’t? Instead of complaining about how we have a lack of work ethic, I feel some of these managers need to take a look in the mirror and discover where the problem started. It’s not just us, it will be a problem for many generations to come. Most 18-year-olds don’t have bills, they don’t want to work as hard because they don’t have to, that doesn’t mean you can’t bring out the best in them. Be a mentor, rather than an enemy. I’m a true believer in the idea that if you treat your employees like they make a difference, they will make a difference. "
I know it's a little beside the main point here, but it's non-moto and I wanted to share my perspective on a real problem I see in today's managers
They do seem to have a very fearful and serious outlook on life. They think their uncle is a crazy old man who has a screw loose for racing moto all these years. It is only a certain type of younger person-- or maybe it is just a certain type of person I meet since I spend a lot of time around young professionals with careers.
We were disciplined and I'm not afraid to say I got a boot up my ass a couple times for being an asshole to my parents but I think I turned out pretty good. They weren't beating us by any means but they weren't afraid to put us in our place when we were out of line. When we were told to come inside and we didn't listen they weren't afraid to come outside and grab us by the arm and push us inside. Someone doing that today would probably get in trouble for it. Why? No idea. I don't consider it child abuse. It wasn't an everyday thing.
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