By the time I was 23 I had completed a degree and an internship and was a
skilled worker. I agree its dammed hard to make a living as an unskilled
worker, the answer is to acquire skills. The problem with that appears to be
that it requires, you know, work.
Kids across the street moan that they can't get jobs that pay enough for them
to move out of grammy and grampy's house so they just sit around and smoke pot
all day rather than starting out at the bottom and working up.
When I was a college student just starting out I could take a construction job
in the spring and be a crew chief by fall. Bust your ass, do what needs to be
done, people notice and you get moved up...
-Curt
From: Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
To: Mercedes List <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Cc: Dan Penoff <d...@penoff.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2017 2:25 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] 83 300SD
No mooching going on here. I’m not paying his bills. We have a policy of “Home
is always Home” for any family member. I’ll provide a roof over your head, but
you’re going to pay for that privilege unless you’re disabled.
I would also point out that it’s damned difficult for anyone without a degree
and even in some cases with a degree, who is just starting out, to make a
decent living. Yeah, I know, you can work two jobs, etc., etc., but the
problem is it’s near impossible to even make a subsistence living as an
unskilled worker. I don’t know what the solution is, suffice to say I’m damned
glad I’m not just out of school and trying to start a career right now.
-D
> On Feb 19, 2017, at 2:14 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes
> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>
> At 18 my dad gave me his old '84 Ford Tempo that was only kept because it had
> no trade in value. That rolling heap lasted 1 year until he gave me my
> mother's '88 Jimmy S15 that had a bit more than zero trade in value but not
> much.
> At 23 I had finished college and moved out on my own, I bought my Dakota that
> September.
> I feel like a failure being unable to mooch off my folks any longer than
> that...
> -Curt
>
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