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It's tough out there, less jobs also equals fewer opportunities for family businesses. There's a fine line between business and burden. Many small businesses draw their owners down with work and worry, few uplift them in wealth and free time to pursue other interests.
So sure, so long as it's an established business with organizational structure, preferably with some hard assets like real estate. Otherwise, better to have a job frankly, or create an entirely new enterprise with better potential.
Mostly it meant I rarely saw my dad as he was pretty much always working. I mean, he made an effort to be involved but 60-70 hour weeks... family vacations were always mom and my sister, dad could never take time off work. Jobs aren't that hard to find, just need to be willing to relocate to an area where there are jobs. Restaurants in the Bay Area are pretty much always hiring, pay kind of sucks but if you don't have any discernible skills, hey, it's a job that does pay $12-15/hr which sucks in the Bay Area. Competition is pretty much illegal immigrants as that's the only people they can get at $12-15/hr, so as long as you speak English you've got a huge leg up on half the competition. Other parts of the country aren't like that. I have a friend in rural Oregon who described jobs as basically winning the lottery. Unless someone died and you knew the owners, you were as likely to get one. Aside from logging which isn't doing that well there's just nothing up there.
Mostly it meant I rarely saw my dad as he was pretty much always working. I mean, he made an effort to be involved but 60-70 hour weeks... family vacations were always mom and my sister, dad could never take time off work. Jobs aren't that hard to find, just need to be willing to relocate to an area where there are jobs. Restaurants in the Bay Area are pretty much always hiring, pay kind of sucks but if you don't have any discernible skills, hey, it's a job that does pay $12-15/hr which sucks in the Bay Area. Competition is pretty much illegal immigrants as that's the only people they can get at $12-15/hr, so as long as you speak English you've got a huge leg up on half the competition. Other parts of the country aren't like that. I have a friend in rural Oregon who described jobs as basically winning the lottery. Unless someone died and you knew the owners, you were as likely to get one. Aside from logging which isn't doing that well there's just nothing up there.
If someone has no skills, they're better off living in the cheapest area possible. The best thing about low wage jobs is that you can find them just about anywhere.
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No, not in the least. I prefer to have made it on my own, not depend on my parents as an adult. I would also not have wanted to work with my father, in fact I left home at 19, and would have gone sooner if I had been financially able.
My grandfather started a very successful family business and then passed away. His sons sucked the equity out and eventually within 10 years of his death, it was out of business.
I never planned on working there, but my cousin did and now he is kind of shiftless.
My dad and his brother are now running their family's business. My brother works there. My husband also used to work for them, but we have since moved away. It's definitely nice to have in the family.
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