I laughed almost as hard as my grandmother did when my daughter said the same words I said as a kid. "Isn't there a law AGAINST child labor??" My daughter was cleaning her bedroom. I was working in the family pasture at her age when I said it. My kid got her work done in 2 hours mainly due to gripping. I got my work done in 4 mainly due to gripping. My grandmother grew up before child labor laws. She worked in a saw mill for pennys for sweeping up saw dust. She worked 10 hours days from when she was 5 to when she was 13. My grandmother had a 3rd grade education. Due to quitting to go work more days.
She would of laughed her ASS OFF if she heard my kid.
No. No. No. Today's kids have it harder! You know, how they are FORCED to pay back the loans that they sign. Or how hard it is to find a way to make money in these times of limited opportunity! Did you know that for the first time in history, companies aren't willing to hand out high salaries for young people who haven't mastered skills or who don't yet know enough to bring high value to the team! First time ever (apparently)
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Do you know that having an MBA earns the same relative pay today as a BA in the 90s?
So people who went to college in the 80/90s paid a lot less for school and earned a lot more money at the jobs they got with that education.
To be clear, I went to college in the 90s and again recently. The education I got in my second degree was not 10 times the value of the one I got in the 90s. The teachers aren’t earning 10 (or even 5) times what they were 20 years ago and the pay a degree holder earns isn’t that much better either.
I’m not a kid just out of school, I have a lot of work experience and measurable results in my work history.
I’m not saying kids these days aren’t fortunate that they are protected by labor laws, but they are affected by different pressures. Just because they don’t have walk to school in the snow, uphill (both ways) like you did, doesn’t mean that they aren’t faced with challenges that you don’t understand.
She would of laughed her ASS OFF if she heard my kid.
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Ok, send the hate my way...
So people who went to college in the 80/90s paid a lot less for school and earned a lot more money at the jobs they got with that education.
To be clear, I went to college in the 90s and again recently. The education I got in my second degree was not 10 times the value of the one I got in the 90s. The teachers aren’t earning 10 (or even 5) times what they were 20 years ago and the pay a degree holder earns isn’t that much better either.
I’m not a kid just out of school, I have a lot of work experience and measurable results in my work history.
I’m not saying kids these days aren’t fortunate that they are protected by labor laws, but they are affected by different pressures. Just because they don’t have walk to school in the snow, uphill (both ways) like you did, doesn’t mean that they aren’t faced with challenges that you don’t understand.