What do you think are the major pros/cons of each current generation?

[David Horn]

I'll try to fix my typos, too.

(06-07-2022, 05:53 PM)JasonBlack Wrote:

David Horn Wrote:Just because the alternative you lived didn't meet your needs does not mean that bland and vacuous would either.  Most nuclear families were artificially ideal.

To the contrary, I did grow up in a stable, nuclear household, and every year that goes by, I consider it more of a privilege to have had that kind of a start. 

Obvioulsy not a Leave It To Beaver style 'nuclear' household then.

Jason Wrote:

David Wrote:Not nonsense at all.  Unfortunately, the PTB have made it nearly impossible, but hitching your life to a grindstone job you hate is not a solution either.

Following your passion is great so long as you have the patience, planning ability and discipline to make it work. The trouble is, a straightforward college-to-career conveyor belt simply isn't going to do that for most people. It usually means taking on jobs for [????]

Not sure what's missing here, but assuming you mean temporary, sometimes it isn't so temporary.  Life often intrudes.

Jason Wrote:

David Wrote:If  your gripe is all talk and no action, i can't disagree.  Most of us lack whatever it takes to perform well in that, or any other challenging capacity.

It's not just "no action". It's "....do you have to be so loud about it?" and "just because you don't hear people screaming from the mountaintop about how compassionate they are doesn't mean they don't help people"

Okay

Jason Wrote:

David Wrote:OK, I tried that personally.  I finally got to college at 41.  I don't advocate that as a model.

well, 20-ish vs 41 is a world of difference. I don't think most people would advocate waiting that long if at all possible. 

The best laid plans of mice and men ...

Again, life often intrudes.

Jason Wrote:

David Wrote:So, pushing someone with no technical savvy into engineering or any of the other STEM fields is a good idea in your opinion?

 
Only if they're smart enough. Otherwise, trades, military or various less strenuous certification programs are all options.

Okay.  

Jason Wrote:

David Wrote:And btw, trades only recently became a viable avenue [again].  Apprenticeships disappeared for decades.

interesting

Worse, actually.  As an early Boomer, we were seen as fresh meet by the employers then, and that never changed.  There were too many of us replacing too few retirees.  Employers had a field day -- actually 50 decades worth.  You should fare better.

Jason Wrote:

David Wrote:Employers used to train their own workers.  Now they expect the workers to do that for them.  Maybe that will change now that employers no longer have the whip hand.

let us hope

We Boomers were a dual demographic anomoly -- the product of massive catch-up from WW-II.  Millennials, on the other hand, are just what should be and were expected.  We were ready for you, but they were certainly not ready for us.