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Originally Posted by Crafty Angler
Young people feel themselves to be too clever to be forced to debase themselves with learning a skilled trade involving any sort of manual labor.
And what if we were to concurrently give all the unemployed money market managers, bankers and others of that ilk the opportunity to find honest, and I repeat, honest work in a WPA type program to help repair our infrastructure that was allowed to fall into ruin. Maybe a day's worth of real labor would restore a little humility to the avaricious little pricks.
The age of money for nothing may be drawing to a close for good in the very near future. Starvation can be a fairly effective motivational tool - like their forebears it may soon be a matter of survival for them to actually work for a living. Too goddammed bad if they don't like it - neither, I imagine, did our immigrant ancestors.
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what a load of crap. Young people eat what was fed to them. My father would have kicked the crap out of me if I told him I wanted to be a machinist, plumber , whatever. So I'm to blame? Math, science and other subjects are what are FORCED on kids in school.
First, I'm not young, but I am in the easy investment business.Money for nothing? Are you f'in kidding me? Thats an ignorant comment. My wife and I bust our asses. We work 9 hour days, bring our computers home and work almost every night until 11 after the kids go to bed. I have worked through some part of every vacation I have had for over 15 years. I spent all of last weekend at work and guess what crafty? I carry a blackberry with me daily. When I am taking a dump, I get paged and have to dro everytihng (literally!)I dont get paid one freaking DIME for all of this extra work. I am not the exception I am the norm in this industry.
Honest work? Do you have any clue how ALL of americans pensions, 401ks, are managed by people BUSTING there asses? Do you know how much time people spend away from their familes traveling to research companies, implement new plans etc? theres no overtime. The day my Dad passed away, I flew from Florida to San Antonio fo work, got in at 3am, got teh call on my Dad at 7 am, flew back to Florida and stayed up arll night on my computer catching up on work! there was no time to mourn, noone who could hop in on my "unskilled" job. Big money would have been lost if I screwed up. Millions of people get checks every week because there are people in the investment indusrty doing all they can so that people can retire. WE dont drink martinis and have 2hr lunches. Life is not what hollywood portrays. Seriously, think before you jump to conclusions. the fact that you have a world wide web is because lots and lots of young people busted their asses working 80hr weeks to bring you the internet and computers you have today. Show a little gratuitude