5 Ways We Ruined the Occupy Wall Street Generation

[grizzly97]

Best part is you don't need a degree for any of those that you mentioned.

Hence, the minimal to no effort part.

 

[inactive]

Best part is you don't need a degree for any of those that you mentioned.

Though they (we?) have been told all their lives that they do.

 

[tsmithwick]

There is another issue that this artic didnt adress. That is most of those kids were given everthing they wanted including colloge and never had to break a sweat. I never go a "freeride". Im only 19 and just last year graduated high school. I'm still living at home but ive had a job (there was some problems there and they let me go but not from anything bad) and im planning to get a degree in gunsmithing. But untill the colloge starts its new classes or i find someone to apprintace me i still am getting another job.

 

[SMS]

I fall into the Gen X timeframe, but always thought it was B.S.

I claim no responsibility for "ruining" the OWS generation, but I would love to bring some ruin down on them right now.

 

[grizzly97]

I fall into the Gen X timeframe, but always thought it was B.S.

I claim no responsibility for "ruining" the OWS generation, but I would love to bring some ruin down on them right now.

Yep, new sig line! Love it!

 

[inactive]

I fall into the Gen X timeframe, but always thought it was B.S.

I claim no responsibility for "ruining" the OWS generation, but I would love to bring some ruin down on them right now.

You personally, I concede may be true. But do you feel that in general, society has moved to create this sentiment among younger people, or so you deny that as well?

Honest question.

 

[Biggsly]

Telling all these kids that everyone gets a trophy. No need to work had like the kid who one the race, we will just give you a trophy for being here.

 

[Mos Eisley]

They can join the military, acquire a skill, serve their country, get out, and get a decent job. I did this. I'm sure some of you have or currently are. My career field, while not exactly booming, is not difficult to find a high-paying job right now. I just left a job that paid $51/hour as a contractor. I constantly get e-mails and phone calls about new jobs. These are contract jobs that are all over the U.S. I constantly hear things like: "I couldn't do what you do"...meaning they won't travel and live on the road. You do what you have to do to provide.

 

[inactive]

"It was painfully clear that he felt like a failure, and that he dreaded having this conversation with every older member of his family he encountered. Having to put a positive spin on his own life, trying to reassure them that he wasn't a failure, or lazy, or hadn't dropped out of society due to a drug problem. Yes, I did get my degree. No, they're not hiring."

And this is my life!

You did everything you were told, but combating unemployment by wanting to be self-sufficient working a lesser (dare I say menial) job would be shameful by society's standards. But, being unemployed is also considered shameful by society's standards.

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he were sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to

 

[smax]

Great read