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Originally Posted by C280 Sport
Of course you need Gov. employees. Thats true. But we dont need as much as we have now. Lots of wasted money being spent. We do agree on this. We need less Gov. There is too much.  As far as the younger generation. Oh boy do I worry. Like you said. There is opportunity all over. There is lots of money to be made. Its unfortunatly lots of them are cluless about life in general. For God sake I was at the CVS one day and there was a young kid about 22-23 around my sons age and the kid was crying about having to work a whole 5 hours on finals week. BOOO WHOO. When I was young I worked and went to College. Things are made easier now a days. No reason why he cant do what I did nearly 30 years ago. |
As they say, youth is wasted on the young.
I wish I had a clue when I was 20, I wouldn't have spent 20 years working for other people, but you live and learn (sometimes).
Today's kids are probably no worse than we were, and they probably have a more realistic view of "job security." We were the last generation that actually had some expectation of spending an entire career doing one thing in one place. I think current 20-year olds understand that they will have many different "jobs," and live in many different places (probably several different countries) if they want to succeed. I think the next 30 years will be more interesting than the last 30, I hope I'm around that long to play in the new economy.
Regarding the size of government; I would like to see it smaller, but I can play whatever game is available. If government contracts are available, I'll take them; if there are more private projects, thats fine; if the interesting projects are in china, that's where I'm going. It doesn't really matter, you make your own opportunities. Public policy will always be a generation behind the curve.