Conservative Influencers Are Annoying
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Maybe I'm just being a triggered snowflake here but it's kind of annoying when people who became millionaires talking in front of a screen all day make fun of zoomers for being stuck at a low station in life. This isn't a great economy to be starting life under and taken all together, it's hard not to feel for the blue hair college girl crying about how she'll never own a home. Are they really wrong?
I don't get why so many conservatives get angry when young people understandably resent being tax slaves.
It wasn't exactly a great economy when I finished school and started life on my own. Yes, these people are really wrong when they cry about not being able to own a home. I started out at a minimum wage job, but then I moved to another job that paid me more. I repeated this a couple more times until I was making pretty good money. I started out renting a shack for $50 a month, then renting a mobile home for a little over $100 a month. Soon after that, I bought the mobile home. When I finished paying for it, I sold it for almost as much as I paid and got a house. Then years later I sold that house for about five times the purchase price and got the house I'm living in now. BTW, I was already retired when I did that last upgrade.
These young people want everything instantly. Older people had to work their way up to things. My parents, born in the 1920s, had to rent cheap houses and even rented apartments in a project until my father found a very cheap tiny old house that he bought for about $2,500 in the early 1960s. He paid double payments, and when he'd gotten the principal down low, he refinanced to get enough money to buy the materials to double the size of the house. That's the house I grew up in, and both my parents died in that house.
But you can't tell these young people anything. I wish I could get a message through the thick skulls of kids just starting high school. I would tell them that college is not for everyone. It didn't used to be. Only go to college for a profession that pays well, and only if you're smart enough and dedicated enough to get through it. Otherwise, look into trades. Some of my relatives who went into trades did very well. If you can't do trades or don't like that type of work, find what you really like to do and make a business out of it. I only work on the side now, and I can make as much as I want to work for. I'd also tell them to be patient. A big house will probably have to be worked up to gradually over the course of a few years. It will be more satisfying when you get it. Another thing is to move if your town has no opportunities. That's what people did years ago.
So I don't care much for these young people. Most will learn things, if at all, the hard way. If anyone talks to me about this stuff, I will give them the best advice I can.
How much per hour was your minimum wage if I may ask?
Minimum wage when I first started work was $1.60. That was at my first summer job. My next two summers were at a factory for $1.90 per hour. After college, minimum wage was $2.00 per hour. With that pay, I was able to rent a shack of a house and buy a used car. My first factory job after college was $3.50 an hour up to $8.50 finally when I left. I bought an old second-hand mobile home during that time. I went to an office job at $6.50, which eventually got to $15.00 per hour when I retired at 50.
Now I live in a big house with all my stuff, prep books, etc. I now get $50 per hour working a side job at home for a billionaire. I work when I please. He considers me the best in the world, so he has to make allowances for me. It's great fun having that power. He lives near Trump, so I may invite myself down to his house for a visit one day and perhaps get to meet Trump.
My college education had zero to do with my working career. I learned on the job and read a lot.
That's pretty cool.
/u/Aspie gets it. Spot on, fren. I've worked for over 30 years, right out of college for EVERYTHING that I and my wife are blessed with. Our sons, in their late 20s, have been taught to work for all of this in the same way...but even they sometimes expect to get it "just a little bit easier."
Ummm, NO. The work ethic in this country, in relation to the reward ethic, has been sadly distorted in recent decades...but that's because the Marxists have gained control of our educational systems.