Is it just me or are young adults under the age of 25 just plain lazy?

I wonder how many of those with higher education degrees are employed but underemployed?

degrees don’t mean a hill of beans when you’re not using them. The average doctoral degree earns 1885 weekly According to the chart, I do better with a high school education driving a truck. (With zero student debt)

 

Yeah I remember watching some so called expert on Real Estate who'd put up a video on YOutube claiming that just after covid had hit the world that there was going to be a massive down turn in the real estate market, I not being a realestate expert commented based on common sense "that the price of real estate just like any other commodity is based on supply and demand and if he proved to be wrong he'd look like a total goose" of course the Chap who hailed from England didn't like this very much while he himself went about running down other so called Real estate experts that was fine but could not handle any criticism himself. I thought fine only time will tell sure enough instead of the huge crash that he'd predicted we actually saw the price of houses increase. Hmmm I wonder whether he remembers my forecast now? To have a real down turn in the housing market one of the big factors would be interest rates, while they remain at around that 1 % level I don't see any issues, however once rates start climbing again this is where the grief could start.

 

Every group in human history has said the younger generation is lazier. It's just human nature to project.

There are still people alive that didn't have indoor plumbing at one point ya know.

I don't really blame the pizza guy wanting to go do that instead and have a life instead of living in a truck. It is a $20 hr job + tips and sign on bonus around here. Living in a truck isn't for everyone.

Really shouldn't be for anyone. Atleast not all the time. Lose their sense of reality.

 

This week, I've interviewed 7 drivers, 3 were millenials, 1 not old enough to be a millenial, and 3 older. Well I am hiring a millenial who starts next month, and I told another millenial, and the 1 too young to be, if they still want to come work for me, I'll happily hire them next summer, when our new trucks arrive. Honestly, the older guys did poorly at best when interviewed.

 

Totally unrelated, but I swear I read Black Widow bites dropped significantly with indoor plumbing. Makes my skin crawl.

People are really using the term "Millennial" as a catch-all these days. I'm 40. I was born in the middle of 1981. Turns out, I just made the cut, and I'm a millennial. Never knew that. Point being, I'll drop myself in a casket before I'm outworked by any person alive, yet I'm a "millennial". Seems like the term is being used for "any generation younger than me, and back in my day we walked up hill both ways in two feet of snow." Give me a F'n break...

 

I get called Boomer a lot and I'm gen x.

 

Yeah I'm right in the middle of gen x...You can't generalize a whole generation of people as behaving in a particular way that's crazy talk...unrealistic.

 

Give it some time and us young drivers will soon be the old timers and start telling lunch counter stories about how "back in my day we actually had to hold the steering wheel and shift the gears, now the truck just drives itself !"

 

You, my baby sister, and I, are all millenials.
I would gladly pit myself and baby sis, against someone who is older than us, to see if they can keep up with us slackers. The drivers here currently are aged 51 to 77, other than us sisters. The older guys have told us sisters right to our faces, there isn't a hope in hell they can do what we millenial women do in the same amount of time. A few went so far as to say they couldn't even do some of the work at all. I doubt that by age 60 I'll be able to keep hauling logs. Lil sis is in amazing physical condition, I can't emphasize how good of physical condition she is in. She is doing the job I was doing before I got hurt a month ago. When she gets home at night, she is exhausted. I actually thought my papa would take over my job when i got hurt. He laughed at me for mentioning it. Said there was no chance he even could. Swears it would actually kill him, likely of a heart attack on day 1 if he were to try. His words to me " You girls can do twice the work, in half the time, of what I am capable of doing ". He is only 62. My dad is driving my truck lately, this week he has worked a grand total of just 2 days, turned the other work down. Papa went on to say that I am also the best driver he has, and my sister the 2nd best. Then he went on further to say with age the eyes deteriorate, reactions slow, ability to concentrate for long hours drops, things like driving in a blizzard wears them out in just an hour. Personally I admire the dedication of my older coworkers to still be driving all these years later. But it speaks volumes when all of them say they can't keep up with us millennials.
But the part I find really odd, is how some of the older guys, judge someone else's ability to drive, by their clothing. Yesterday I was telling the guys about this thread, they laughed so hard. The man who is 58 laughed the hardest, then mentioned that he recently over heard some on the trucker channel discussing the same thing. An older driver was bashing everyone who didn't dress like him. But he became very quiet when a few said they couldn't dress like him, because no way could they wear jeans that huge in size, show that much ### crack, and their wives would leave them if they wore a shirt that ugly unless it was Halloween.

 

You, and a small amount of the millennials are the exception. I'm a 58 year old and just before I had my hip replaced I delivered 53ft trailers of bagged insulation all the time. 4 under 20's, 2 in the trailer with me, and 2 on the ground, WITH a fork lift, couldn't keep up with me and complained to their boss I wouldn't let them stop to catch their breath.... useless all of them, and my (at the time) 56 year old a $$ told them as much as I could. Lol, their boss, a guy my age, thought it was funny, and he himself said it takes 4 of them to replace 1 guy he had retire, and the job they do still isnt finished properly.
Thank you and everybody like you, setting an example for your generation. A lot of them need it.
Oh, and.... I dont have any tattoos, but if I do get one on my old a $$.....