Employers for some time have been substantially screening people that want employment in Canada. More bodies than jobs really is the pressure people face. Far too many people have really nothing to offer an employer either. At one time they got a living wage in the system. When in that condition. Today less often. The wage gap is truly massive today.

I have warned endless young people not to get a criminal conviction or even a conviction for pot. Having an existing record is one of the first things employers check for now.

If your self esteem has hit rock bottom and your self confidence as well. It probably is a pretty dead end.

I do not want this to sound wrong. Poverty is also a state of mind. I could be reduced to no funds at all but my drive and perhaps some abilities would overcome it . It is just what some seem able to do. Some have this characteristic while some lack it.

Now for those with an entitlement mentality today and no sellable skills. I have no ideal of what is out there for jobs.

What got my attention was many years ago when the auto plants started to collapse in places like Detroit. Even though the wage and benefit programs combined may have been 50.00 an hour back then. The majority of workers had put nothing aside over all their years there.

There were auto plants and suppliers located in the Canadian region we lived in. So I saw some of the early carnage but it was mild to what it eventually became in places like Detroit.
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Another thought is our kids did well because of many things us parents did with them both when growing up and teaching them by example. The wife and myself still deal with a lot of people that will fall through the cracks unfortunately. Or already have.

I also believe some adversary or struggle early in life is better than none. Today including our own children and grand children we meet many people that have experienced none. So their coping skills may suffer if their apple carts ever get overturned. Not having the ability to restore or maintain their situation.

My dear departed mother once told me. It was her hope that my generation never experienced anything like she saw during the early 1930s. She claimed you had to live through it to really understand the consequences for so many people.

I have never been asked for money where we live now from people on the streets. Other than the time at a seven eleven when a young lady approached me. Telling me she was working her way through college. The wife was sitting in the car as I was coming back with the widows down only a few feet away and found it amusing.