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OH BOY! I could write PAGES about this! I think it's generational WITH some exceptions. I don't think it starts at 25-I think you can look all the way to the current 35-40 something. I think my age group (stick me with the 50's) were the last of the MAJORITY of employees having a good work ethic.
My brother-in-law is 46 and there are so many from his HS CLASS that have never held a real job, always changing careers, STILL
going to school or looking for the big break. It just seems the percentage is increasing every year. I think our parents wanted to give us the world and save us from life's had knocks. In the end, we suffer for their kindness, because when things get boring, difficult or just plain disastrous, people know more about filing for unemployment, bankruptcy (or a lawsuit) than they know how to pull themselves up by the bootstraps. Right after college, I qualified for food stamps...I would have rather DIED than go on FOOD STAMPS! Forward to today. An old baseball coach of my son was receiving workman's compensation-never went back to work. Yet EVERY DAY he was out on the field-NO LIMITATION of movement-nothing. We do not work to have fun, we work to put food on the table! Sometimes we like what we do and that's a bonus!
Thank goodness there is still a segment of people who know what hard work means and are not too proud to start at the bottom.
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