Thread: Kid's........not even a clue !!

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My first job at 12 was working on a farm (lived in the city).The old guy would pick us up at 7:00 and drop us off at 5:00,lunch furnished.He drove a new 50 chev.p/u.I can still smell the new smell it gave off.He paid us 1.50 per.day hoeing corn,suckering tobacco,hauling hay,slaughtering sheep & all the things that happen on a Tennessee farm.I lasted one summer and got me a real job.I delivered papers morning & evening and after paying the paper office my paper bill on Sat,we would head out to the movie matinee to see the Gene Autrys,&Tex Ritters of that era.I had a JC Higgins 26 in.bicycle,couldn't afford a Schwinn with the knee action front wheel.Boy those were the days.

Kids nowdays want to start at the top,and most don't have any common brain power to go with their book smarts.

IMO

Originally Posted by Don Dalton

Kids nowdays want to start at the top,and most don't have any common brain power to go with their book smarts.

IMO

Man, is that an understatement!!!!!

hey cherry cokes were way better from the soda fountain

Originally Posted by Don Dalton

Kids nowdays want to start at the top,and most don't have any common brain power to go with their book smarts.

IMO

What book smarts? Most that I come in contact with at work have trouble spelling their name.

Originally Posted by NTFDAY

What book smarts? Most that I come in contact with at work have trouble spelling their name.

Originally Posted by NTFDAY

What book smarts? Most that I come in contact with at work have trouble spelling their name.

My wife is the HR director for her companies eastern branch. While they don't have much turn over, her biggest gripe is that even tho they have to have a high school diploma to even apply, most can't figure out how to fill out a simple job application without major mistakes. If 100 apply, she MIGHT find 10 to interview and of those 10, there might be 2-3 that are considered. Then there is the drug test and physical........ Unfortunately for hiring new folks, in our area, there is only 2.8 - 3% unemployment, so not much out there to choose from.

Originally Posted by IC2

Unfortunately for hiring new folks, in our area, there is only 2.8 - 3% unemployment, so not much out there to choose from.

It's like that here too (about 2% Unemployment)-I recently had to hire a new Secretary and let me tell you there are a lot of people out there (I don't dare put them all in one group and call them Women!)that I swear I could put my hand on the other side of their Head, look into their ear and see clear through!

I ended up finding a pretty good one, but she wanted $60K to do it!

This thread could have been written, with a few words changed, 40 years ago by our parents...............

"Get a haircut, hippie"

Originally Posted by poncho62

This thread could have been written, with a few words changed, 40 years ago by our parents...............

"Get a haircut, hippie"

i resemble that remark

Originally Posted by flh4speed

i resemble that remark

Me too...........I'm a 57 year old hippie, and no haircut.

Yep, this has got to be the ol " history repeats itself " that we keep hearing about. Made me laugh, when I started to recall a lot of the same things, some of you mentioned. poncho62, you hit the nail on the head. I had lots of people tell me I was going to hell in a basket when I was a kid, but I did alright. I imagine the next batch of kids will turn out ok too, in spite of us "old guys that don't know much". Oh well, they'll learn all the things "we don't know" soon enough, just like we did!! Did I mention history will repeat itself? Hey, I'm old, I can tell the same story as many times as I want!! Sniper

I just turned 60 a couple of weeks ago... I remember telephone "party lines", 29 cent gasoline, 5 cent Snickers candy bars, and a lot of stuff from "back when". Now I'm a school teacher and I can tell you that our future is in serious doubt.

We teachers can work our asses off to present the material that young people need to be competitive in the modern world and they still don't learn. Why? Because they don't want to! Why should they? Everything they want is handed to them at no cost and they can do anything they want with no consequences. Eastern countries are now kicking the USA's ass in medecine, engineering, and research because their students start out with nothing and they WANT to excell to improve their lives.

I'm just trying to survive the next two years so I can retire from teaching and move on to something else...

Originally Posted by J. Robinson

I just turned 60 a couple of weeks ago... I remember telephone "party lines", 29 cent gasoline, 5 cent Snickers candy bars, and a lot of stuff from "back when". Now I'm a school teacher and I can tell you that our future is in serious doubt.

We teachers can work our asses off to present the material that young people need to be competitive in the modern world and they still don't learn. Why? Because they don't want to! Why should they? Everything they want is handed to them at no cost and they can do anything they want with no consequences. Eastern countries are now kicking the USA's ass in medecine, engineering, and research because their students start out with nothing and they WANT to excell to improve their lives.

I'm just trying to survive the next two years so I can retire from teaching and move on to something else...

are you at least teaching them basic math? might come in handy to them someday..

Ha, ha! Yeah, most of them can count to ten OK on their fingers. Now, if you want them to make change without a calculator or read a ruler, things get dicey...

Gas wars - 12 cents a gallon. I used to put marbles in the hubcaps of people I didn't like. I'm old as dirt.
Milner