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MI7BZ3EW on scored.co
1 year ago1 point(+0/-0/+1Score on mirror)4 children
I'm calling your bluff.
My son moved out with no skills. He worked odd jobs until he got an apprenticeship as an electrician. He got his license and now he is making more than what he spends. All the while he rented a room and ate mostly ramen.
Was it easy? No, but he made it work.
If you want to be defeatist, go do it somewhere else.
You would like a podcast called the quash. I wish I could find the old episodes. Anyways he constantly rants how the government and special interests gatekeep professions with licensing and how that's illegal and how they keep professionals in line. He often cites doctors losing their licenses during COVID or lawyers losing their licenses if they claim the 2020 election was stolen. Threatening to take your license away is one way to control you. Also he jokes how you need a license to cut hair or paint nails
I was on some federal construction sites around 2005. Getting into a pipe or electrician or elevator union or especially a union at a port is extremely difficult and yeah you have to know someone or pay someone off.
1 year ago6 points(+0/-0/+6Score on mirror)1 child
so what you’re saying is you failed to provide for your own genetic legacy to the point of making sure he stayed impoverished and malnourished during his prime learning /earning years. You couldn’t even provide a place for him to stay while he saved money, and you’re trying to take pride in this as his father.
Do you think this helps or hurts the perception of boomers?
I told him he could live rent-free at home and eat our food but I can't give him free rent and food where he wanted to go. He made his choice. He wanted to see what real life was like.
When he comes home he has free rent and food and there are plenty of opportunities here for him if he wants them.
You think so little of this next generation. They are the same blood and genes as the people who conquered this continent and colonized it.
My son would be in a far worse condition. I know because I grew up in the 80s. I watched countless families struggle just to get food to feed their families.
30 years ago was the 90s. The 90s were pretty good, to be honest.
My son moved out with no skills. He worked odd jobs until he got an apprenticeship as an electrician. He got his license and now he is making more than what he spends. All the while he rented a room and ate mostly ramen.
Was it easy? No, but he made it work.
If you want to be defeatist, go do it somewhere else.
I'm glad he never tried.
Do you think this helps or hurts the perception of boomers?
When he comes home he has free rent and food and there are plenty of opportunities here for him if he wants them.
You think so little of this next generation. They are the same blood and genes as the people who conquered this continent and colonized it.
Bare minimum boomer. What a piece of fucking shit.
This is supported by any financial metric you can think of. It is beyond argument.
My son would be in a far worse condition. I know because I grew up in the 80s. I watched countless families struggle just to get food to feed their families.
30 years ago was the 90s. The 90s were pretty good, to be honest.
Just because you saw a few people struggling doesn’t mean anything.
Making "more than you spend" is relative and also the norm.