You don't have to like it, but it's true. I sit on interview panels and see it all the time. I work with dozens of kids and I would bet that I am around teenagers a lot more than you (though I don't know that as a fact). Now, is it all the young kids' fault? No, parents and the older generation share some of the blame for sure.

 

Heck, people are making a LIVING now giving training classes and seminars to corporations on how to deal with the millennial/new generation. That should be an indication of how different things are.

 

Different, absolutely. Doesn't mean worse.

 

Technology has changed things, and it's definitely been for the better.

I worked on the farm since I came out if the womb. Got my first paying job when I was 15 at Empress Chili, which my uncle owned. My brother who just graduated from Brossart didn't get a job until his senior year after football season, my dad told him that football and school was his job. He did football lifting, conditioning and camps throughout the off season. When he wasn't doing football he was working on the farm any chance he got.

In high school, I started working as a grill guy and opening/closing a Wendy's.

Many kids have it so easy today it's not even funny, which can be both good and bad. Just like I had it a lot easier than my parents and had no clue what it was like to have to work as hard as they did just to HOPE to put enough food on the table to eat at night.

 

The times they are a changing... That's why parents work correct? To make life easier for the ones they love and give them a better start? Idk now we complain about what that has created. Just confusing.

Different, absolutely. Doesn't mean worse.

 

Technology has changed things, and it's definitely been for the better.

 

That's the issue, very few in the older generations understand technology.

 

Technology makes life easier, the older generation doesn't see the youngins doing it the way they had to so that makes them lazy and entitled.

That's the issue, very few in the older generations understand technology.

 

Technology makes life easier, the older generation doesn't see the youngins doing it the way they had to so that makes them lazy and entitled.

 

IMO, kids are also a heck of a lot more intelligent these days due to technology. They have unlimited information and data at the tips of their fingers that wasn't available before.

I baby sat, elder sat, ran errands, helped in gardens, hay, tobacco, cucumbers, helped my uncles on construction sites, many, many chores, helped another aunt and uncle with their water hauling business. I wasn't allowed to hold a "real" job, but I stayed busy. My daughter worked from16, at a paint your own pottery store. She worked as much as legally allowed, and picked up othe odd jobs and babysitting. My son worked at Kroger from 16, starting as a bagger and working his way up to eventual pharmacy tech. And he played football. If he wasn't playing football, he was working or studying.

For the record, the few kids I know that could fit the lazy and entitled stereotype are pretry much encouraged by their parents to be so. Most kids want to be more independent and want to work.

IMO, kids are also a heck of a lot more intelligent these days due to technology. They have unlimited information and data at the tips of their fingers that wasn't available before.

That doesn't make them more intelligent, just more informed, or at least they should be. However after working with middle schoolers this past year coaching, I'm not sure they are either one. :lol2:

I always worked summers but didn't have a regular job when school was in. Everyone is a product of how they are raised. Today's kids are no different then any generation, but they are definitely coddled more than any other. No one to blame for that other than baby boomers and X generation parents.

Brother graduated with his Masters in Economics/Finance last Spring. He had 3 undergraduate degrees. He got a job offer from a major corporation and he went back and asked to negotiate on the salary. He had done his research and discovered that what they were offering him was less than the starting salary for the average graduate from his program at his university received over the past 10 years, and that he felt his academic achievements made him better than average. Some of you would call that entitled. I'd say he was prepared and had done his homework.

I worked on the farm since I came out if the womb. Got my first paying job when I was 15 at Empress Chili, which my uncle owned. My brother who just graduated from Brossart didn't get a job until his senior year after football season, my dad told him that football and school was his job. He did football lifting, conditioning and camps throughout the off season. When he wasn't doing football he was working on the farm any chance he got.

 

I could go for a chili cheese pizza today for lunch. I miss that place.

Millennials challenge me. I love it. It makes me feel young. I take it as my responsibility to relate to them.

When I worked as a teenager, I could save enough money to pay for an entire semesters tuition. Now, you could work a whole summer and you would earn enough to buy 2 textbooks! The purchasing power of what a teenager can earn now is so low compared to college costs, the incentive just is not there.

I played three sports every year throughout high school and was pretty involved in my youth group, so I didn't work a lot. I did work as a soccer official from about 12-17 which covered anything fun I wanted to do. Then worked at the Florence Water Park as a cook the summer before college.

 

Now I feel like all I do is work between my primary job and all my vending (Probably 130+ events in the 2017 calendar year).

 

Unless the family really needs the help, let them be young.