National Post: Millenials are 'generation screwed'

JamesBondo

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...with a university education who, at last count, was labouring in a job for which they are overqualified.

haha! a university education gives you a license to learn, it most certainly does not make you overqualified for any job.
 

Spade

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Let's push it back to after the Leafs win the Stanley Cup. I want to live forever (although I am technically not a Boomer ... I am without a generation).

I, too, am not a Boomer. But I am old enough to remember when the Leafs had self respect. The question is, will either of us to live long enough to see the Oilers worth 19.90/Cup?
 

petros

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Many things but I dare say it may be a little over your head. Cell phones, SCADA systems, on line monitoring systems and remote alarming allow me to do more in the same amount of time. The job I currently do was done by 2.5 employees only 15 years ago. I have flexible hours so I can work when it suits me or the job. I'm home right now but am heading to work at 6:00 because that is the best time to do the particular task I have to do. I get paid to be on call and I can choose to bank that time and take it off if I so choose. I have a great job and happy employees are productive employees. Now, that's me personally. I can't answer that question for everybody but clearly, we are working less as a society and producing more.

Working hours: Get a life | The Economist

Something the people before you left behind for you.

BTW All you are is a babysitter . People before did labour.
 
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Cannuck

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Something the people before you left behind for you.

BTW All you are is a babysitter . People before did labour.

Don't be silly. Anybody that has a clue what it's like to repair a broken water main in February wouldn't be foolish enough to call it babysitting.
 

damngrumpy

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There is a mighty skewed vision here A lot of young people do get it
They are preparing for the present and the future just like the last one.
Our grand kids and there are 24 of them now are doing just fine. The
older ones are doing well. Nine of the twenty four are in the workforce
We have finishing carpenters, firemen (2) an electrician and isolation
specialist a mechanic and one is a council for Canadian Mental Health
Association. Some are also in sales and one with their own business.
They all vote, they take part in community things. A couple have small
kids that land on my doorstep on weekends and they don't bitch about
what the don't have
One grand daughter spent part of spring break living with us and working
with me she thinks she might like to be a farmer. All too often parents and
grandparents spend time but not quality time with kids and wonder why
they have no guidance hmmmmmm I do see a problem here and its not the
kids in many cases
 

Angstrom

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By 2018 the majority of boomers are out of the work force. At that point it shouldn't be a problem. Watch for a boost in the economy from their on.

In the last 2 years I've seen a incredible increase in opportunities everywhere in my community of Ottawa. Not everyone is jumping on them. It takes a trained mind to acknowledge opportunity.
 

Tecumsehsbones

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There is a mighty skewed vision here A lot of young people do get it
They are preparing for the present and the future just like the last one.
Our grand kids and there are 24 of them now are doing just fine. The
older ones are doing well. Nine of the twenty four are in the workforce
We have finishing carpenters, firemen (2) an electrician and isolation
specialist a mechanic and one is a council for Canadian Mental Health
Association. Some are also in sales and one with their own business.
They all vote, they take part in community things. A couple have small
kids that land on my doorstep on weekends and they don't bitch about
what the don't have
One grand daughter spent part of spring break living with us and working
with me she thinks she might like to be a farmer. All too often parents and
grandparents spend time but not quality time with kids and wonder why
they have no guidance hmmmmmm I do see a problem here and its not the
kids in many cases
Sounds like a heck of a clan, Grump. You and me have our differences, but I'd say you raised some good kids, who passed it on to their kids. Lot to be proud of.