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Why are you trying to Blame the older Gen-Y, Gen-X and Baby Boomers Generation for your problems we all had to deal with different problems and issues and you will have to deal with yours..
I mean Boomers had to go off and fight in Vietnam and Gen-X and older Gen-Y had the last Decade of wars to fight and here you complain things are hard cause you do not make 6-figures Right after college
Give me a break their are people esp. our troops and Veterans that come before you and they have the right to earned to be treated Better and have Receive more advantages handed to them for what they did for the rest of us .... you have not IMO
So stop complaining since we have troops still actively serving overseas that go out over the wire everyday and take fire form the Talban and if anybody has anything to complain about anything... It is the Troops and the Veterans that were there and have served the Country....
Notsome latte Coffee drinking, yuppie kid(s) that want it all handed to Him/Her on a silver platter without putting in any work to even deserve it.
How about the kids who started out life and tried to buy a house but the typical mortgage rate went from 7.25 percent in the early 1970s to a record 17.5 percent in 1981. In less than a decade rates went up 100+ percent.
These kids don't have a clue what inflationary times are like. And Obama keeps the printing presses going full steam ahead.
I second this comment, I just quit my job 2 weeks ago and took a chance to work with an electrical contractor ansmd so far i'm loving it. The work right now is mostly low voltage but they do bigger projects and I feel much more fulfilled in what i'm doing now as opposed to my last job as a temp worker which btw the guy I worked with is now being let go and another temp agency is taking over the contract. So I feel pretty damn lucky
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And that, my friend is a job that will always be needed and never offshored.
You can move anywhere you want and just need some paperwork to continue working.
Best of luck in your new venture.
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I second this comment, I just quit my job 2 weeks ago and took a chance to work with an electrical contractor ansmd so far i'm loving it. The work right now is mostly low voltage but they do bigger projects and I feel much more fulfilled in what i'm doing now as opposed to my last job as a temp worker which btw the guy I worked with is now being let go and another temp agency is taking over the contract. So I feel pretty damn lucky
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Good Luck! I think you made a wise decision! A good tradesman is hard to find these days..
How about the kids who started out life and tried to buy a house but the typical mortgage rate went from 7.25 percent in the early 1970s to a record 17.5 percent in 1981. In less than a decade rates went up 100+ percent.
These kids don't have a clue what inflationary times are like. And Obama keeps the printing presses going full steam ahead.
That would be me. My first mortage was at 11.25%. I remember worrying about the rates going up again before the closing. It seemed like they would never stop. Now we're trying to refinance at less than 3%. I'd say that's an improvement.
Originally Posted by GTOlover OP, Go into the Skilled Trades and that is where all the demand and money are and the Future lies for your Generation as the Baby Boomers Retire.
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I second this comment, I just quit my job 2 weeks ago and took a chance to work with an electrical contractor ansmd so far i'm loving it. The work right now is mostly low voltage but they do bigger projects and I feel much more fulfilled in what i'm doing now as opposed to my last job as a temp worker which btw the guy I worked with is now being let go and another temp agency is taking over the contract. So I feel pretty damn lucky
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I was a sub-contractor in socal for 35 years, and the state of the trades is in the gutter here. The influx of illegal crews has decimated the trades here. You will also be dependent on booms, and subject to busts (feast or famine). Trade unions are the only way to get security in this state, and they are driving the state to bankruptcy.
This is the government you wanted. Now adjust and adapt.
You can't expect government to take care of you and not have to pay for it, do you ?
You're seriously going to blame someone who was "born yesterday" for the government?
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I think Gen Y's problem is that they want to start out at the top and don't start where they belong, at the bottom. Go get ANY job for now and work your way up.
Gen Y's have been starting at the bottom just like everybody else. The only difference is that because of the cost of living, these people are living with three roommates, in their parents' basement or halfway funded by their parents' retirement money. Oh but then it's their fault for not making enough money, right?
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Fee's are relatively small. I've sold on there for years and made good money on the side. I'm not recommending you do it for a living but no, you can't buy the same garbage as everyone else, make a nickel on it and hope to survive.
How come we never hear calls for a reform of the system here? To get a degree in accounting there is no reason why you should be forced to take and pay for a class on 3rd century Tibetan art.
That's how many have always started off. I won't argue that it's far harder to get hired by a GM right out of high school like it once was but there is nothing wrong with starting at the bottom.
Look around you sometime. EVERYBODY starts at the bottom and that is where they stay.
I think that's part of the problem too. We're being worked to death. Nobody in the entire world is overworked as much as us Yankees. Even the Japanese don't slave as hard as we do.
The main issue in my opinion is the price of real estate. People have to work hard to prevent being homeless. I consider flipping houses somewhat of a predatory profession since it makes it much harder for people to make a living, it's also part of what caused our economy to collapse.
Oh poor baby, you have to work hard and you are being worked to death. You think you are the first "generation" to have done this? This is one problem people have of people of your generation. You want the world handed to you and not work for it. You expect it to be given too.
When I was young I worked three jobs to support my family. I didn't like it, but I did it. Its just the way things are sometimes. Not everyone is going to have a silver spoon in their mouth and be given everything they want.
This is the United States. Not Japan, not England, not Croatia, and not Australia. This is how things are done here. If you cannot keep up with the workload expected of you, go to one of those countries you think is so great and work/live there. I'm sure they will welcome you with open arms.
I don't think it is an exaggeration or a generalization to say that the political and big business leadership of your generation thus far has been a dismal failure dominated by greed and infighting. I am not saying that Gen Y should start at the top, but rather its disappointing to watch.
Holy cow; on that we can agree but do you suppose it was any different for our generation? You ever hear of the Rockefellers the Hearsts, did you ever watch Citizen Kane?
Corruption has existed forever and each generation refines it a bit more. When you can be assured that our generation is all firmly planted under the sod, WHO will you then blame for the ONGOING and further refined corruption?
I'm going to promise you one thing now and that is: you are going to be just as dissappointed by your confreres/peers as we have been over the years.
Once again; stop the blame game and affect change OR get used to it.
SOOOO much to say, where to start, where to start.
Do you KNOW how hard washing dishes is?? I don't think you do, because it's a HELL of a lot harder than buying something, listing it on ebay and shipping it out! And you sure as hell won't get $19 bucks for you time doing it either!
What?
I've done dish washing as a chore for more than a decade now and washing dishes isn't that hard.
That would be me. My first mortage was at 11.25%. I remember worrying about the rates going up again before the closing. It seemed like they would never stop. Now we're trying to refinance at less than 3%. I'd say that's an improvement.
Heh, my first mortgage was 13 3/4%, and that was the BEST RATE back in 82.
Low interest is the one positive about the QE, but it will be short lived when inflation roars back. And it won't be long.
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