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

Buncha dang pot smoking hippie freeloaders.

 

Blame the parents,,Apple never falls far from the tree. Children are a product of their environment

 

The generation that had them, spoiled them. They never had to work for anything. From the time I was 10 I carried 50 papers and delivered before school, 50 after school, folded boxes at the local pizza place friday and saturday evenings, shoveled snow, cut grass etc etc. Nothing was handed to me. I wanted a mini bike. When I made 1/2 of it in cash, I got a LOAN for the other half. I was 12. The latest generation has no idea the value of WORK. lazy phuckers, all of them

 

Lets be realistic about opportunity for a kid earning money currently.

Snow shoveling is a town/city thing but relies on community/neighbor trust and at a certain degree of affluence, its not really an option due to size of driveway. And too tightly packed of a neighborhood, its not an option cause the city does it/apartment buildings have people that do that already. Its also regional, gotta have snow...

Lawns, similar, basically your parents have to pay you to do it, and somewhat fund your startup, depending on where you live, could make a real mini buisness of it come 14ish, but more likely 16 and assumes you have the density for people to make it work. Again this will depend on regionality and people having enough but not too much lawn to mow coupled with community trust. These first 2 havent changed except for the last point i made.

Newspapers, dead and even if there is a place with a local paper, you must have a car to do a route (1999 where i was, that became policy)

Local pizza place, might still be an option, but thats going to rely on you or your parents knowing the owners, a chain will not be an option.

Much of this is to do with changing legality, and some to do with the landscape of where you are. But we do not live in the time you grew up, even if that was only 15 years ago

 

All that is very true, and yet, the current culture opens other opportunities for kids with some motivation. In the neighborhoods of today, there’s very few kids compared to 20 or 30 years ago. There’s a 12 year old in our neighborhood that makes BANK scooping dog poop for people. The girls that care to, as well as some of the boys that have their head on straight, are little babysitting tycoons. I mean they ask, and get as much as $20 per hour.

One kid is the go-to kid for dog sitting and dog walking. He’s got three or four dogs he walks right after school every day. People pay him a freaking fortune knowing that Fido got to go out (and they don’t have to do it).

The biggest difference I see is that most parents don’t bother to teach the kids to work, or think they are doing the kids a favor by “letting them concentrate on their school”.

 

If it weren't for habitually bad decisions until I reached my early 30's, I'd be right there with you guys.

Point being: hustle/work ethic is only half the equation. Without that, I'd probably be homeless or dead instead of getting by, cash poor and credit rich. Less impulse and more delayed gratification and I'd be in a more secure position today. Also probably not doing what I'm now doing in this industry.

All in all, I got no regerts.

 

The neighborhood I grew up in older and the sidewalks driveways are the same. Older people pay for snow removal because kids aren't around to do it.
Newspapers are gone but every corner gas a coffee shop/ pizza place/ mcdonalds/ etc etc, ALL have help wanted signs now. There is no excuse.

 

Funny you mention newspapers. I broke the frame of a Schwinn heavy duty cruiser riding it off a curb with 125 Sunday editions loaded on it. They actually did have an unconditional lifetime warranty. True story LOL.

 

I am 52 (oct 1969) and worked as a box boy at the local grocers starting at 13. Worked for all I wanted/ended with very little input from mom and dad.

I have 3 children. 26yr daughter who is an E6 in the Navy as an it/ct. ready to have our 2nd grandchild. She had her first job at 15 at a burger joint.

23yr daughter is ready to graduate with her BSN in may of 22 as an trauma surgery nurse. With a goal to be an md by 29. Had her first job at 15 at same burger joint as older sis.

19yr old son (last at home!!) will ship off to the navy in feb of 22. He will be it/ct like his older sis. He has been working since 15 as a lifeguard. We live in AZ, so pretty much year round work. The #### China flu killed off that job though. He is currently working at our local QT truck stop about 35-40hrs a week. He is pt but picks up hrs of his coworkers his age.

what I am trying to say is, laziness is not an age thing, as many have posted here, it all depends on how one instills values such as a work ethic, etc. as parents. Like to think me and wife did a bang-up job with our off-spring.

 

The name for it is "Experience" LMAO!