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re: What would you do if your millennial kid was unemployed after college?
Posted on 7/19/17 at 7:35 am to Slippy
Posted on 7/19/17 at 7:35 am to Slippy
If you're "kid" is over 25 years old and you're still paying any of his bills and/or still giving them an allowance then you're doing it wrong. Paying their rent/cell phone/car insurance is actually what is causing them to not get off their arse. They're grown adults. I'd let them live at home but wouldn't give them a penny.
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Posted on 7/19/17 at 7:42 am to G Vice
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I think the statistic is 1/3 of millennials have moved back home with their parents. Wowzer.
This stat is somewhat misleading. I have friends that moved back in with their parents for a year, but were working full time and saving up to buy a house.
Posted on 7/19/17 at 7:50 am to someLSUdoosh
My wife and I live with her parents right now, but we just moved back to the area where they live and we're in the process of buying a house, so I don't know if we count in that statistic or what.
Posted on 7/19/17 at 8:07 am to Epic Cajun
Nearly everyone that had parents in large metros (atl, Houston, Dallas) I knew moved back home for some period after college. Some people longer than others.
I have a few friends that did it for years cause they didn't mind living with them while collecting a real pay check. This is the smartest thing to do if you could stand it. I hated living at home but damn would it be nice to bank my rent check.
Others had a trouble finding work right away, myself included.
Some people were just POS wanted to live off their parent's dime.
I have a few friends that did it for years cause they didn't mind living with them while collecting a real pay check. This is the smartest thing to do if you could stand it. I hated living at home but damn would it be nice to bank my rent check.
Others had a trouble finding work right away, myself included.
Some people were just POS wanted to live off their parent's dime.
Posted on 7/19/17 at 9:01 am to Slippy
Give him 30 days.
On day 31, tell him if he doesn't have a job by sundown, you're shipping him off to military school with that goddamn Finkelstein shite kid.
On day 31, tell him if he doesn't have a job by sundown, you're shipping him off to military school with that goddamn Finkelstein shite kid.
Posted on 7/19/17 at 9:11 am to Slippy
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What would you do if your millennial kid was unemployed after college?
Go tell them to learn a trade!
Posted on 7/19/17 at 9:23 am to Slippy
There are lots of jobs out there, take one and work, and keep looking.
Posted on 7/19/17 at 9:29 am to mofungoo
quote:if it's that kind of job you're not going to get the crème de la crème of employees
After looking at the young people we hired at work I have come to realize that a few words that are uncomfortable for them to listen to would help them:
*Get off your fricking cell phone, kid. We are not paying you to test cell towers.
*Don't look surprised when you are told to sweep the floor. That's about all that a degree in anthropology is good for.
*You need to know that it is OK to sweat. You won't die if your job means that you might have to put forth some effort every now and then.
*You are a new employee. Quit trying to tell people who have worked their jobs for 20 years what to do. Learn what you have to know in order to do your job, then do your job.
*Work starts at 8AM, not 8:05 or 8:07. Do that 3 times and you're out.
This post was edited on 7/19/17 at 9:35 am
Posted on 7/19/17 at 9:32 am to GreatLakesTiger24
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if it's that kind of job you're not going to get the crème de la crème of employees
here lies the problem...
to get a better job you must start somewhere; the easiest way to advance is to start small, make s difference, and move up
it is exponentially cheaper & easier for an employer to promote from within than to find someone new
Posted on 7/19/17 at 10:10 am to cgrand
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it is exponentially cheaper & easier for an employer to promote from within than to find someone new
That sounds great and all until "promotion" means new job title, 3% more money, and shitload more work.
Posted on 7/19/17 at 10:15 am to Slippy
Yikes.... I never went back after hs graduation other than for holidays.
Not sure how my fellow millenials have such little self respect
Not sure how my fellow millenials have such little self respect
Posted on 7/19/17 at 10:39 am to jdeval1
quote:that kinesiology degree is worthless. Had to break up with an OT 6 because she couldn't find a job after a year. Got Tired of paying for p****
quote: I'm 29 and still live with my parents. I haven't been able to get a job yet even though I only have 2 semesters left for my kinesiology degree. It's not like I'm just free loading though. I cut the grass and take the trash out and shite like every week
Posted on 7/19/17 at 10:45 am to Slippy
This question is presented badly in the OP because it begins the issue point AFTER college.
Parents need to be guiding their children in a manner that gets them "successful" and the guidance begins in earnest during the middle school years.
If a child is living at home, aimless and wandering AFTER college, it may be too late.
"The military" is not a good answer because to excel in a US military career, you will have to be an exceptionally ambitious and determined person.
If AFTER college, an adolescent lacks ambition, Office Candidate School might be tough to get into. OCS doesn't take every warm body with a college degree anymore.
If AFTER college the adolescent enlists but lacks exceptional ambition, those four years spent as an enlisted person will probably be wasted years spent pursuing a vocation that the person will never again pursue in life.
Parents need to be guiding their children in a manner that gets them "successful" and the guidance begins in earnest during the middle school years.
If a child is living at home, aimless and wandering AFTER college, it may be too late.
"The military" is not a good answer because to excel in a US military career, you will have to be an exceptionally ambitious and determined person.
If AFTER college, an adolescent lacks ambition, Office Candidate School might be tough to get into. OCS doesn't take every warm body with a college degree anymore.
If AFTER college the adolescent enlists but lacks exceptional ambition, those four years spent as an enlisted person will probably be wasted years spent pursuing a vocation that the person will never again pursue in life.
This post was edited on 7/19/17 at 10:49 am
Posted on 7/19/17 at 10:50 am to Slippy
Got a 20 year old at my house he is working and is on the fence right now about college or the military. He pays all his bills but told him about 2 weeks ago if he is staying at house he will be paying rent within the next 6 months. Trying to push him out now.
Posted on 7/19/17 at 10:53 am to cgrand
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here lies the problem...
to get a better job you must start somewhere; the easiest way to advance is to start small, make s difference, and move up
it is exponentially cheaper & easier for an employer to promote from within than to find someone new
Yeah but if I apply for an office job and you have me sweeping the floors and swinging a hammer I'm telling you to GFYS and I'm finding a new job. Then you end of with a bunch of employees that are there because they absolutely can't find another job and loathe you.
Structure and respect are good and needed in the workplace, but being a complete a-hole just for the sake of being an a-hole is not productive.
Posted on 7/19/17 at 10:54 am to PrivatePublic
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Birds fly by getting pushed out of the nest.
And a high percentage of them die in the process. If you live your life the way birds do, you can expect to get the results that birds do. They aren't very good.
Posted on 7/19/17 at 10:58 am to Mingo Was His NameO
My FIL straight up told my wife that once she went off to college she wasn't moving back in the house.
She graduated, he wasn't lying. Didn't let her stay 1 night. We were engaged at the time, got a house together in a month or so.
She graduated, he wasn't lying. Didn't let her stay 1 night. We were engaged at the time, got a house together in a month or so.
Posted on 7/19/17 at 11:00 am to TheWalrus
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I don't think anyone is saying they'd kick their kid out to be homeless unless they were a major drug user etc. I assume they mean force them to find other living arrangements, like rooming with someone in a cheap apartment.
How do you force them to do that? The only "force" you have is the ability to kick them out. They might find another place or they might be homeless. You don't have any control over it after you play your one hole card.
Posted on 7/19/17 at 11:00 am to BoogaBear
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She graduated, he wasn't lying. Didn't let her stay 1 night. We were engaged at the time, got a house together in a month or so.
You got engaged in college, big jimbo on your part
Posted on 7/19/17 at 11:11 am to Champagne
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If a child is living at home, aimless and wandering AFTER college, it may be too late.
"The military" is not a good answer because to excel in a US military career, you will have to be an exceptionally ambitious and determined person.
If AFTER college, an adolescent lacks ambition, Office Candidate School might be tough to get into. OCS doesn't take every warm body with a college degree anymore.
If AFTER college the adolescent enlists but lacks exceptional ambition, those four years spent as an enlisted person will probably be wasted years spent pursuing a vocation that the person will never again pursue in life.
what the hell are you talking about?
The person graduated college probably in the spring or summer semester, given the timing of this thread. Doesn't have a real job yet. If home is Houston/dallas/NOLA/etc renting can be really expensive on a BS salary. Most people don't want to live at home but it is often necessary given the market.
I do agree that people in my age group need to adjust their expectations on what their first job out of school will be.
This post was edited on 7/19/17 at 11:12 am
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