I have no illusion of trying to convince you. You're looking at your past with rose tinted glasses. The fact you can't recall all the help you received while you failed your way to a cozy living speaks volumes.
I'm writing this to the other sane people in this thread. This ideology of go work hard it'll fix everything fails to address the real scavengers of society that are bleeding it dry. The upward transfer of wealth during covid has been STAGGERING. And guys like you are complaining about poor people refusing to be treated like shit and to get back on their knees because you have a notion you worked hard when you were young.
There are people in china working harder than you can ever conceive and they don't have a shred of the good life you undeservedly gained thru being alive at the right place and time.
Quit the self aggrandizing bs, you didn't earn where you are. You were born at the right time and place, and probably showed up to work like anyone with a pulse.
Your success comes from that, not working hard and boot strapping or whatever bs your generation likes to talk about.
So your view is if you got shit skills and there's low paying McJobs around that businesses are trying to run and hire low skilled people to run it, you say don't because that job is too crap, cheap and a guy sitting sitting at home deserves only good jobs that pay great.
Ok slacker.
I'll say it again to anyone.
Get off your ass, stop milking hard working people paying into the pot and work. Contribute something to society than be a leech thinking you're too good for jobs that will take you back. If nobody wants to offer you $50k, $80k or $100k+/yr jobs, guess what? Take what comes your way. If you're such a great employee, you'd get offers from someone the past 10 or 20 years like the other millions of people with good jobs.
And if you think I'm crap and dont deserve a good job, too bad. I got one. Whether you think it's dumb luck or I earned it (which I did), I'm not the one scrambling with low skills and being broke. If someone out there wants to get paid $150k/yr staring at spreadsheets like me, just get a business degree, brush up on your numbers and spreadsheet skills, tidy up your resume, go on Linkedin to link up with recruiters, and every company needs number crunchers. It's not even a hard job (IMO) as Excel and SAP do the crunching for you most of the time. You just got to analyze the output and tell execs whats going on because they arent the ones who are going to sit there doing it and most people are numbnuts who dont like numbers so they need someone to synthesize it all. I'm not the one building the database. That's IT dept doing their magic.
You dont sit at home entitled waiting for a dream job off other people's money. You work your way up the chain.
As my parents would say to us as kids. Go to school and get a degree. Thats the nagging we got. We did. BUT, the second we got that piece of paper in your hand, it was a total 180. Now, it's get off you ass and get a job. Take whatever, get something on the resume and find better stuff later.
Never did they say, sit and wait for a dream job. I remember my dad even saying take a mail room job if that pops up. They probably dont even have these jobs anymore, but at the time every big company would have a mail room and an entry level grunt job would be doing menial work doing mail, faxing, printing out shit, doing binders for people and admin crap. He knew, because he worked in an office and saw it all.
And I actually got an interview for a job like that at Ricoh Canada probably around 1997. It paid I think $24,000 which is $12/hr. It was such a low end job I dont even know if it came with FT benefit. I never got the job. But if I was offered it Im taking it. Not like I had any other prospect jobs at the time. What am I going to do? Wait for an analyst job paying $40 or 50k?
Got to have some work ethic in life bud.
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