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Originally Posted by ContrarianEcon
You can't get a bottom end job unless you already live within commuting distance. They want you to start today. After you start it takes 3 weeks until the first check arrives. How many checks until you can afford to move? How do you get to and from work in the mean time? In a lot of places no car means no job on the bottom end. Having a car means having a lot more opportunities for work.
PhD level job search. You send out you résumé to every opening in the country, or world, and you move to where the work is and they will pay you to move in a lot of cases.
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Every year thousands of undergrads spend thousands of dollars they saved up to interview at a few medical schools, normally crashing on the couch of a student already in attendance there.
Four years later those same students again spend thousands (that they've saved up, no student loans for flying around the country) to interview at residencies around the US.
And just a few months later those students move cross country to work 80 hour weeks for $50k/yr with minimal time off for the next three to ten years.
Eight years of making very little if anything yet saving enough for a few major life events, followed by another three years of making very little on an hourly basis, and thousands do it knowing eventually the HARD WORK should pay off.
It is ok to expect a Doctor to postpone wages for a decade until they have a skill set that is valued above minimum wage, and they are able to pay for a few major moves/life events, certainly we can expect the same of any highschool graduate?
Flip/mop/cashier until you shift manage, then store manage, then transfer to a better store (have you seen what a manager at QT or In-n-Out makes?). This would surely take less time and sacrifice than getting a medical education.
But it's a generation of Grasshoppers, not ants, and as a generation we are Veruca Salt.
want a feast
I want a bean feast
Cream buns and doughnuts and fruitcake with no nuts so good you could go nuts.
No, now!
I want a ball
I want a party
Pink macaroons and a million balloons and performing baboons and
Give it to me now.
I want the world,
I want the whole world.
I want to lock it all up in my pocket
It's my bar of chocolate
Give it to me now!
I want today
I want tomorrow
I want to wear them like braids in my hair and I don't want to share them
I want a party with roomfuls of laughter
Ten thousand ton of ice cream
And if I don't get the things I am after
I'm going to scream!
I want the works,
I want the whole works!
Presents and prizes and sweets and surprises in all shapes and sizes,
And now!
Don't care how I want it now!
Don't care how I want it now!
It's not all their fault, just as with Veruca the parents had a role in molding them, but are we best served by further defraying life lessons? Can't we teach our young how to use a fishing pole instead of giving them fish?
I'm all about progressive taxes, I certainly enjoy an America that few will ever know without hard work and a bit of luck, but blantant handouts seem to encourage sloth instead of industry and we need producers in addition to consumers to hold it all together.
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