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yep and they were not particular.LOLBut with so mnay graduatig during the bommer eyars there was plenty of competiton for jobs. Seberal eaysr afterward the 70's recessio camw tih double digit unemployemnt and inflatio at same time. gasoline doubled over night later i the 70's with embargo.
yep and they were not particular.lolbut with so mnay graduatig during the bommer eyars there was plenty of competiton for jobs. Seberal eaysr afterward the 70's recessio camw tih double digit unemployemnt and inflatio at same time. Gasoline doubled over night later i the 70's with embargo.
You don't need to be a boomer to know how it was. Anyone with a pulse could get a job. Graduate high school, take your fathers place at the factory, and retire in 40 years with full benefits. Even high school dropouts could make a good living. You didn't need to go to college, you could work your way up anywhere. Somewhere along the line we screwed up and now my generation is left holding the bag. The only future we will have is rebuilding society after the sociopaths destroyed it. Like someone who has a party at their friends house and trashes the place. Good for them, bad for you.
Ah, yes, the Baby Boomers. You mean those kids who enrolled in the Peace Corps, Volunteers in Service to America, aka the VISTA Volunteers, who tutored, demonstrated for peace, for the environment, for civil rights, for the Equal Rights Amendment, got drafted and sent to Vietnam, and so much more?
Yep, they were selfish brats, all right.
Not the way I remember it (and I was there). My first car was a three year old Chevy II, bought by my parents but paid for by me at $100 a month until it was mine. I was 22 at the time, and kept that car for fifteen years. I had my first job at age 17, working in a neighborhood real estate office. Worked in college language labs and departmental libraries later on as an undergraduate. Volunteer-tutored in the inner city, and in a one-room school in the Appalachian Mountains. Most of my classmates and other generational cohorts did much the same. Unless they were in 'nam, that is.
Eventually I got a job in the public sector which paid poorly but which was located where I wanted to live and had excellent benefits and retirement, which eventually paid off.
But I sure pinched my pennies for the duration. I still volunteer for causes I believe in, still support what I perceive as right, try to help when and where I can. Life isn't perfect, it isn't easy - but you know, it never was. What it is is challenging, interesting, and rewarding in ways that have nothing to do with money.
Jobs were plentiful when I was that age, but we started working at a young age. I had a paper route at 10, and started working at the bicycle shop at 15. Dad would haul me off to work for a dollar a day starting at 12 if there was no school, but I got a raise to 5 a day by 16. I was able to join the Carpenters union at 18.
However, to place blame on the Boomer generation for today's economy is nuts. Illegal immigration has taken all the jobs we did as teens, as well as a lot of others. Outsourcing manufacturing, and general globalization are examples of others. Big money got what they wanted at the expense of working class America, and the still spend billions to brainwash people to support their cause. The working class needs to push back.
Jobs were plentiful when I was that age, but we started working at a young age. I had a paper route at 10, and started working at the bicycle shop at 15. Dad would haul me off to work for a dollar a day starting at 12 if there was no school, but I got a raise to 5 a day by 16. I was able to join the Carpenters union at 18.
However, to place blame on the Boomer generation for today's economy is nuts. Illegal immigration has taken all the jobs we did as teens, as well as a lot of others. Outsourcing manufacturing, and general globalization are examples of others. Big money got what they wanted at the expense of working class America, and the still spend billions to brainwash people to support their cause. The working class needs to push back.
The "blame" comes into play when you realize that boomers were/are in the driver's seat, in terms of managing the companies and our governments, when all of the variables you listed became issues.
It's just Tex's accent. You'll get used to it. His contributions to discussions are usually quite useful.
How can you have an accent on an internet forum?
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Vietnam was hiring that year.
