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My Company Is Better Than Yours

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by Wargames, May 15, 2011.

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  1. May 15, 2011 #11
    wsyrob

    wsyrob Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    Not really. the generalization is that they won't work harder. Some do some don't just like its always been.
     
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  3. May 15, 2011 #12
    Wargames

    Wargames Captain Crusty

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    This thread can take many turns, and I believe we can discuss, argue, with no problem at all. Everyone should have a say at anything, were all adults.

    Now, Even though your still in your 50`s. You have seen what went on in the Late 60`s and early 70`s. I was part of the Vietnam War Draft, and you just missed it, but you were living with us. We did work hard then, and I have had MANY friends come home from Vietnam that had no enthusiasm to do anything. Till this DAY, My buddies that came home from Vietnam, still struggle, Every day. Many marriages were lost, due to the war. Wives did not know how to deal with guys coming home and having many issues.

    My buddy Dan, Vietnam 1967, Airborne Ranger,says every time a Huey (UH-1) went down, they would send them in to go get our boys, and bring em back. He said, Lots of time, there was a party there waiting for us. Dan, a few years ago, would wake up in the morning, fill the sink up with Ice-Water, and stick his head in it. Doc. Says, Dont do that anymore. LOL But Dan has been a carpenter since he got out of Vietnam, and is one of the hardest workers I ever seen. This man struggles STILL, every day, but goes to work. I dont know, Its probably is not a Generation thing, but just bothers the days out of me, to see someone not wanting to go to work.
     
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  4. May 15, 2011 #13
    wsyrob

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    I really wasn't thinking about the War vets. I was thinking about the hippie protesters and the wannabees that came after them. My dad bought and fixed up low income rental property during that time and hired quite a few Vietnam vets.

    I guess my point is for every young deadbeat you see out there on the street there is another you don't see studying in a library or swimming 6 miles in a pool somewhere.
     
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  5. May 15, 2011 #14
    jlkklj777

    jlkklj777 20 Year Truckload Veteran

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    Workaholics do seem to be a dying breed. Kids today have been reared on video games and fast food. Everything they have been brought up on seems to be based on instant gratification.

    Now they become adults and find out they have to work before they can have fun. Some will do the absolute minimum to get by and find affordable entertainment. While others will stay at home and mooch off of their parents hard work as long as they can.

    Not pointing fingers... just an observation.
     
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  7. May 15, 2011 #15
    FLATBED

    FLATBED Road Train Member

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    Face the FACT or TRUTH , each generation loses a bit of work ethic do to the fact that the previous generation worked to ensure that their children will not have to endure what they did.
     
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  8. May 15, 2011 #16
    wsyrob

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    That's one reason I put up with the ######## from parents to coach for 30 years. Swimmers train for 4-6 months pointing towards one or two championship meets a year. Elite swimmers may be on a multiyear plan pointing at an Olympic trials. During the hard training phase (all but the last 6 weeks) the work they put in actually makes them slower. It teaches them to delay gratification and set long term goals.

    I don't know of one of the hundreds of swimmers I worked with who lives with their parents. I have actually helped them get jobs when they put me down as a reference and I get a call from some guy looking over 200 applications. I just ask the guy how many of the other applicants got out of bed at 4:30AM 4 mornings a week in high school training for something 6 months down the road.
     
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  9. May 15, 2011 #17
    kidsdad

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    When I was a kid we were poor, I did'nt really know it but we were. It was a poor blue coller town. Our parents got us the stuff we needed, clothes, shoes, food, roof over our heads anything else was up to us. I mowed grass, paper route, detasseled corn, swept up the grocers across the etreet. I had freinds that were the same way and we were the kids that had money, bikes, candy ect. I also had freinds who did;nt work, and they did'nt really have anything. Same thing these days, my thirteen year old daughter works her butt of around the house and when she wants money or something I generaly do my best to hook her up. My son, lazy, dosent want to help out and consequently complains alot about not having money ect. this is true with other familys I know, there are people who are willing to work to get what they want and then there are people who want everything handed to them. It's always been that way, probably always be that way. I think it seems like more people are like that because theres more people now and you always notice the bad ones before the good ones. just my two cents.
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  10. May 15, 2011 #18
    Linte_Loco

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    The unemployment rate of 18-24 year olds is 52.2%.

    Some of it is the economy, but not all of it in my opinion:biggrin_25524:
     
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  11. May 15, 2011 #19
    kidsdad

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    Yeah thats a number I was'nt aware of, looks pretty bad on them don't it.
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  12. May 15, 2011 #20
    wsyrob

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    My son got a job a few weeks after he turned 16 and was old enough. He has a GMC full size pickup truck he bought from my father in law that he pays all the expenses for.

    Everyone wants to blame someone or something else. Its either the economy, video games, unemployment or some trucking company. Look in the mirror. Act in such a way that the person you see there respects you. Set some long term goals and do what it takes to achieve them.
     
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