Where did Loyalty go? Where did the work ethic go? What happened with Space Travel?
This is a topic that has really bothered me of late. Partly because of my job, but it is rampant in every part of our lives.
Lets take the work force. 30 years ago, a person would stay at the same job for years. Usually ending up retiring in this job. But then we started needing things faster, and in more quantities, and these people who were loyal were getting laid off after 30 years of service. For Robots, or a younger more aggressive workforce.
So then their kids saw this, and said to themselves, I am not going to let myself get stuck in that rut. So now days it is not looked poorly on a candidates application if they have worked at 6 different jobs in six years…Why?
Is there is a reason why people switch jobs so much? Why not find a job, and put up with it? If there is a lot of Bull at that job, perhaps find another one, but if there is the normal bull, stick with it. The grass is definitely not always greener on the other side.
When I was in my previous position (in the same company!), I was in a position that I hired people for jobs in a retail environment. This is where I had the hardest time. I would have applicants come in that were very young, gave them their first job ever, and then saw them flounder when they realized that it was not a social job, it was hard work. They would come up to me and say, “I cannot work here anymore, you expect too much of me and pay me too little.”
What is going to happen to these kids? If that job was too hard, isn’t the next one going to be too?
I see this being rampant. Kids are growing up lazy, with no sense of loyalty. Getting into debt, getting married saying that is too hard and getting divorced. Getting a good job, then saying that it is too much work, with not enough pay, and quitting. They then get deeper into debt, because they now do not have a job, yet they keep up their same spending habits. Then they default on their credit cards, their home loans, ect. Say having creditors breathing down their neck is too hard, and claim bankruptcy.
Man…and we wonder what has happened with the economy. People overextending themselves to ensure they have nice things, yet not making enough money to pay for them.
This drives me crazy.
Life is hard.
Marriage is hard
Keeping a job and finding things you like about it everyday is hard.
Telling yourself that you dont need the things you cant afford is hard.
but staying in a marriage regardless of the hard times is rewarding.
Staying in a job and doing your best is rewarding.
Staying out of debt is enourmously rewarding. Not right away, but later when you can afford to put your kids through college.
1 comment:
All great points. Does it make you feel old to write a "kids these days" lecture?
For me, my parents were "do what feels good" hippies - I saw their example and went running the other way, worked hard, put myself and helped husband through school. Now I see the people 10 years younger than us so lazy end feeling entitled ...
sigh.
and I'm stuck "raising" my mom and loaning money to my in-laws.
sigh some more.
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