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Thanks John G. That's about as good a description of what appears the general condition of 30 to 45 year old men I know as I've seen anywhere: from nobel economists to prize winning filmmakers. I'd like to post on Facebook. Let me know if ok peggypowelldobb...@facebook.com ~ * P <~~www.peggydobbins.net > > John G.: > speaking as sorta fresh college grad, working on becoming a teacher, the job > market for young people is really twisted. > I'm about to do some semi-regular substitute teaching for a school district. > This is a form of temp work. But it's lightyears ahead of what I've been > doing. > > I worked at starbucks for a few months and the manager was an older lady who > 'retired' or fell from a decent post in real estate. . . . And so her > attitude to young people, who have no sane economic hopes, was one of > condescension and criticism and a subtle cruelty. I left a few months into it > because it was dissatisfying, underpaying, and was exhausting me so that I > couldn't actually work on networking or getting a better job. > > This past december I had a job that lasted maybe an hour . . . he said "we > have different managing styles." Then he said that I was no longer welcome > and that I was basically fired. > > Petty, confusing, unexplainable. I know people working on their master's > degrees working in starbucks. People with finance degrees in clothes shops. > I'd say that the apathy is deepening, if that were possible. On places like > 4chan, there's a cultural fetishization of a NEET-lifestyle, and working to > try and get on SS disability and the like. Other young people take a fuck-it > attitude, or turn to the black market, or turn to Rainbow gathering and > hitchhiking. All this of course means either reliance on foodstamps, > increasingly resentful resource drains on parents, family, friends, and a > loss of hope, ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
