My oldest daughter started college this fall and in the meetings with the University they mentioned that todays in coming freshmen were the most emotionally immature kids who have ever stepped on campus...and wit each generation it only gets worse.
That started me thinking generationally and to my father...who never went to college but where he was at the age of 21 compared to most kids today at the same age.
he started working at the ripe old age of 6 helping his family work fields in Arkansas in the 1930's . They moved to Texas when he was 9 and at 10 years old he had a job with a dairy herding cows [on horseback]. Over the next 8 years he had jobs as a shoe shine boy, a newspaper boy [both on a street corner and a route] set pins at a bowling alley, was a caddy at Lubbock Country Club, was an usher at Lindsey Theater, a cook at Bruces Aztec inn, sold cokes at Tech games,Hubber games and at the wrestling matches at at 18 joined the USMC and fought in Korea. By the time he was 21 he was probably unbelievably more mature than the average 21 year old kid today.
In looking back at all his jobs as a kid...none of them really exist today. Technology, work safety rules and minimum wage hikes have all but eliminated those jobs. Today...it seems that vast majority of kids will have their first job when the graduate from college.
Pretty sad IMO.
That started me thinking generationally and to my father...who never went to college but where he was at the age of 21 compared to most kids today at the same age.
he started working at the ripe old age of 6 helping his family work fields in Arkansas in the 1930's . They moved to Texas when he was 9 and at 10 years old he had a job with a dairy herding cows [on horseback]. Over the next 8 years he had jobs as a shoe shine boy, a newspaper boy [both on a street corner and a route] set pins at a bowling alley, was a caddy at Lubbock Country Club, was an usher at Lindsey Theater, a cook at Bruces Aztec inn, sold cokes at Tech games,Hubber games and at the wrestling matches at at 18 joined the USMC and fought in Korea. By the time he was 21 he was probably unbelievably more mature than the average 21 year old kid today.
In looking back at all his jobs as a kid...none of them really exist today. Technology, work safety rules and minimum wage hikes have all but eliminated those jobs. Today...it seems that vast majority of kids will have their first job when the graduate from college.
Pretty sad IMO.
