I decided since the entitlement stereotype of Millennials is here to stay, I better embrace it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elhOc5O1Rbw
ABOUT THAT MILLENNIAL ENTITLEMENT
I decided since the entitlement stereotype of Millennials is here to stay, I better embrace it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elhOc5O1Rbw
Oh, Nickel. Your input was so valuable. I am a better person for it. Thank you for showing me my errors.
When I was twelve I asked my dad for a new bike, his reply, “Get a job.” Which I did (you could work at twelve before the Progressives ruined it). At 59 and retired after 26 years at Hewlett Packard along with working multiple jobs over the years and going back to school and getting certifications (MCSE, CNA) I look at the real Stephanie types and shake my head at the stupid. I say the real types as I think she is playing the board. Build a web site, whoop-de-do…it is about as hard as following a recipe to bake a cake. Can’t finish painting a place because you are a women…no women with any pride would give up , much less admit it. Being fat does not help.
Nice play Stephanie, but the sad thing is most Millennials actually believe your bilge.
“feminism is a rich bitch problem”.
Please. As an elder, I can list a vast number of jobs, both “ordinary” and professional, that simply were not available to women, no matter what their qualifications, before the feminist movement knocked down barriers and made it possible for women to become something other than secretaries, teachers, waitresses, and nurses. And those jobs became better jobs with better pay once we had other options.
My mother was a bookkeeper in the pre-feminist days, struggling to support us on a “woman’s” paycheck, with no help from her ex or her affluent parents, whose attitude was “you make your bed, you lie on it”, and that since she had, in their view, married too young, she should just suck it up and subsist on the sub-poverty level pay that was the lot of about 90% of working women in the pre-feminist era.
But by 1975, we had other options. I scored a “man’s” blue collar job, which I did for 12 years, and was surprised at how little physical strength it took. I don’t have any physical strength to speak of, can barely lift 25 lbs, and being the driver of a large commercial vehicle turned out not to take any. Aside from having a gun stuck in my face now and then, and having to deal with winter driving conditions, it was a fairly cushy job with nice night hours, and kept me in large, beautiful apartments and lots of material goodies, with no help from anyone,with the additional benefit of getting to know my city and neighborhood in a way I would never have if I’d been trapped in a cubicle all day.
“rich bitches” never needed the movement. It was working class women who benefited first and the most.
I never really gave generational differences much thought until I stumbled upon TBP.
A couple of things.
To make your way through life there are lots of options, each one coming with a unique set of struggles as well as rewards. Some have to be experienced first hand, they cannot be taught.
Yesterday I was working with my oldest son- he is technically a millenial, but his attitude is decidely something else. I have been leaning on him for the past few weeks as my right arm heals and he has been shoulder to shoulder with me every day. As he was closing a snow covered drop gate the hitch refused to engage because ice had clogged the receiver. I could see that the solution was simply to shave out the ice using the hitching lever and then let it fall into place. My teen-age son attempted to close it using brute force, repeatedly banging the ice with the lever and in the -15 air it only compacted the ice making closure impossible. My frustration led me to take the lever from his hand and to do it my way and it closed on the first try. My son looked at me with a withering stare and said “you may have been right, but would have been better if you had let me figure it out on my own””.
Boom. Big learning experience for both of us.
I have no doubt that most of the older folks on here could offer you- and have- some worthwhile advice regarding your life path, but the truth of the matter is that the best lessons you’ll ever learn will be the ones you figure out for yourself.
To me the biggest limitation you have is your inability ot consider alternative lifestyles. Getting a job is not for everyone. Some people need that kind of security, some people choke on it. For others it’s being your own boss, creating your own business and taking all the risks. For job people such a life is unthinkable, full of risk and responsibility. Others and quite obviously more all the time prefer to simply drop out and live off the labor of others without making a contribution. Their lifestyle is their vocation. Women have the added option of finding a loving husband that wants a wife and a mother for his children, who will take on the outside labor and risk in order to provide for someone who makes his homelife a refuge and a place of rest.
The motivations are essential to consider as well- is it wealth and possessions? A loving family? To make a difference in the world or in the lives of others? Is it social acceptance and fame?
The current paradigm is powerful. It controls most of the wealth and virtually all of the views and in order to maintain that control it must enlist the majority in its service. When Bill Clinton said during his first administration that “All Americans deserve a college education” he was saying it in service of the existing order, not telling a truth or looking out for the citizenry. There are huge numbers of people who are intellectually incapable of finishing grade school, how exactly would a college education benefit them or the nation? With the exception of indebting them to the federal government and creating an army of entitled bodies sans ability, the only creation is a population racked with debt and filled with frustration.
The truth is the only thing you have to do in this life is leave it at the end. Every choice you make between your arrival and your departure are up to you. No one owes you and you are not entitled to anything beyond that which you can do under your own power and the strength of your own will.
If you were my daughter I would advise you to find a husband before you look for a job. Having someone who loves and cares for you in this world is a benefit no government agency can provide, no employer will offer and no money can buy. Raising children well is the single greatest achievement in life and only women can create life. Think about why you are here and what your real purpose as a human being ought to be to best benefit you rather than the economy or the cultural paradigm.
And in the meantime, keep making those salads as well or better than anyone ever made them before because that’s what is important- doing something well, whatever that thing is.
Clam,
Of all the construction type of jobs, painting is one of the best for women. In my city there are six or seven groups of women and men paint contractors. You are just an out of shape millennial and whine too much.
Women make good painters because they have an eye for detail and the work is not all that physical. Ladders and 5 gals paint pails might be a little heavy, but most work in teams.
Painters make 40,000/60,000 yr. depending where you live in California. Certainly more than at the salad bar.
“I have a degree. That means I am smart. I am entitled to a high paying job. I expect others to support me while I learn to use Facebook and Youtube and spend time with my friends. It is only right.” — The Clam
This reminds me of that one Star Trek episode where they run into that almost-an-idiot race – The Pakleds – who, being too stupid to invent anything themselves, spend their time stealing tech from others and then congratulating themselves…
Commander William T. Riker: What brings you so far from home?
Pakled Captain Grebnedlog: We look for things.
Commander William T. Riker: What were you looking for?
Pakled Captain Grebnedlog: Things we need.
Commander William T. Riker: Can you be more specific?
Pakled Captain Grebnedlog: Things that make us go. We need help.
Commander William T. Riker: What is the nature of your mission?
Pakled Captain Grebnedlog: We look for things.
Commander William T. Riker: [to La Forge] Did you hear an echo?
I think I’m just going to start referring to Millennials as “The Pakleds”… perhaps Clammy would like a promotion? We can start calling her “Pakled Captain Grebnedlog”…
If Stephanie thinks that painting her apartment is too tiring and physical, wait till she has a 25 lb. infant slung on one hip while pushing a grocery cart and trying to control a 2-year old with her free hand. Motherhood is NOT for weaklings, as my sister and mother, and millions of other mothers, can tell you. From the time your first is born, through the years when you spend all day keeping your toddler from climbing the drapes, pulling over the bookcase, swinging from the dining room chandelier, emptying out the base cabinets and pouring a bottle of Liquid Plumbr all over the floor just to watch it pour.. and you spend all night getting up to see to the baby, you will be lucky if you can get 3 hours a sleep at a stretch. Oh, yeah, you will haul a lot of 20 lb sacks of groceries and baskets of wash.
Billy,
You know that was a doppleganger, right? Check the poster’s name. Stephanie Shithard… And the avatar. Different than all the other comments made by Stephanie.
BTW. I love that episode. My all time favorite Next Generation episode: “Darmok”
I didn’t read all the comments here and watched about 10 seconds of the video. You say you invested 4 years of college learning technology. Does that mean you got a computer science degree, or does that mean you got a philosophy degree and had to learn how to type your papers on a laptop and learn word. Every computer science graduate I know has a job making over 60k. If your good, you will make over 6 figures in 5 years in the right city. Now for the philosophy students, I can’t say, but what were you thinking and who are you blaming? My daughter got a degree in psychology. I told here a degree in education would be a better choice in terms of employment, but if psychology is what your passion is, by all means do it. She did it with passion and got a job before graduating. She works with autistic kids and given the feedback I get from her co-workers, there is nothing that brings bigger smiles to both the parents and the children then to see her and how she performs the very hard job of working with the kids. Where do you fit into this picture Stephanie?
hardscrabble farmer, Steph should look for a job before she looks for a husband.
Nothing drives guys away faster than the smell of a woman who is looking for a meal ticket. Young men who themselves are burdened with 5 and 6-digit college loans aren’t dying to take on the support of an unemployed woman with her own stack of college debt
Men want someone who can contribute, or at least not be a drag, and it will take all the earnings of two people pulling together and bringing in money to position the couple in a house and build a savings nest egg so the wife can stay home and care for kids. Being able to stay home with the kids is increasingly seen as something you have to work for, not something that comes automatically.
I have counseled both of my young millie nephews to avoid young women with a lot of college debt and/or who are unemployed and clearly looking for a male benefactor.
I would offer to support Broke Clams … but she thinks I smell funny.
“Nothing drives guys away faster than the smell of a woman who is looking for a meal ticket.”
Lol, yeah right. As long as men still want sex, that is never an issue. You can go on with your feminist babbling all you want, I am not buying. Also, a lot of my generation is pissed off about feminism. I will refer you to returnofkings.com
HalfPint says:
“I didn’t read all the comments here and watched about 10 seconds of the video.”
I stopped reading your comment after that first sentence.
Stucky says:
I would offer to support Broke Clams … but she thinks I smell funny.
HS F- You are completely right. I don’t look down on any of the things you listed. I said feminism is a rich bitch problem because for most young women there is no choice to stay at home. With needing two incomes to support a family, the traditional roles of women has been cleared off the table for most.
EL ILEGAL- I see your 90s funny mob movie, and raise one with Ron Jeremy.
“Billy,
You know that was a doppleganger, right? Check the poster’s name. Stephanie Shithard… And the avatar. Different than all the other comments made by Stephanie.” — Punk
Yeah? So?
It’s still funny… and I’m still gonna call the Millies “Pakled’s” because it’s too good a fit… can’t pass it up.
The annoying thing is, sometimes I can pull off a brilliant pop culture reference, and either everyone doesn’t get it, ONE guy gets it, or there’s a bucket of cold water (looking at YOU, Punk) waiting to spoil my fun…
Meh…
Stephanie says:
“the traditional roles of women has been cleared off the table for most.”
it could be that women are trying to be everything to every advertiser. it would change the country radically if they stopped listening to every siren song of beauty, fashion, comfort…
I read that back in the day men did not shave on a daily basis and their everyday clothes were work clothes. They ate and drank and smoked whatever they could afford and died at a proper age, no burdening the younger generations. Now everyone wants to be like rich folks and live forever on another’s dime.
Billy says:
“there’s a bucket of cold water (looking at YOU, Punk) waiting to spoil my fun…”
the days of back slapping and group hugs on this site are over, now it is all a quick shiv in the gut from a supposed friendly. watch your back and don’t trust anyone or vice versa.
Steph, your vid reminds me of this joke: an Italian, a German and a Mexican are bragging about their diving abilities. the Italian says, an Italian can dive so deep, it will be 20 minutes before he comes back up. the German says, a German can dive so deep, it will be an hour before he comes back up. Ha, that’s nothing, says the Mexican. A Mexican can dive so deep, he’ll never come back up.
Billy,
what I meant was, some of the best humor here hides a knife
“…because for most young women there is no choice to stay at home. With needing two incomes to support a family, the traditional roles of women has been cleared off the table for most.”
Expectations can be altered. When we married the only furnishings we had were old wooden boxes screwed to the wall to hold books. Our idea of a fun date night was a bottle of cheap wine and a couple of candles in the kitchen. We had dreams, we had plans, we just didn’t have the means to achieve them at that point, so we enjoyed what we did have and saved for the future. There was no health insurance, no electronics, not much beyond each other, but that was an asset that has made both of us wealthy beyond our wildest dreams, if not financially, in terms of real value; intelligent, healthy, beautiful children, a productive, thriving farm, wonderful friendships and solid famaily ties.
I hope I don’t come off as preachy because that’s not the intent, I just wanted to make sure that you heard another side that isn’t talked about very often in our culture.There’s choices you can make that may not fit the college/career/mcmansion/early retirement path that are every bit as rewarding.
Quick question: does the salad come to you in bagged/premix form and you add the croutons/tomatoes or is it raw greens cut up from scratch? I have eaten at OG in the past and the salad always had a very ‘old’ taste to it like it had been riding around the country in a reefer car for a couple of weeks before it made it onto the plate. The greens we grow are picked, rinsed, bagged and sold within a couple of hours and when you eat them the flavors are off the charts. I can’t ever remember eating anything like that in a restaurant before.
And good luck to you, whatever path you choose.
SSS comes to his senses.
Won’t get her hands dirty. Won’t do “men’s work”. Does not understand what capitalism is about – wages reflect ability to value add and competition/willingness of people to accept a given wage. Does not understand that being able to start a website or upload to youtube is not the same as having tech ability. Gets mad if her bosses are less tech savvy than her. Thinks networking and gaining tech skills more important than working, which means she is happy to live on welfare while she does those things.
Why do you folks keep giving this stupid bitch the time of day?
Stucky – thought you were done with her? I know she is a juicy target, but I have never seen anyone this totally deluded before.
” hope I don’t come off as preachy because that’s not the intent, I just wanted to make sure that you heard another side that isn’t talked about very often in our culture.’
Not preachy at all, that is what I grew up with within our family farm. We have two different economies, the real economy most Americans live in and the fantasy Wall Street manufactured appearance of wealth.
“does the salad come to you in bagged/premix form and you add the croutons/tomatoes or is it raw greens cut up from scratch? I have eaten at OG in the past and the salad always had a very ‘old’ taste to it like it had been riding around the country in a reefer car for a couple of weeks before it made it onto the plate.”
Well your perception is correct. It comes in vacuum sealed bags that is sliced by a machine. It is dry as can be that is why they put globs of dressing on it. The olives and peppers come in vacuum sealed bags and onions are sliced by machines too. The only vegetable sliced in store with a slicer is the tomatoes. To get the salad to taste good I would (and I was the only one, the managers looked like they were shown a miracle) hand tear all the salad mix. It would break the water out of the lettuce giving it moisture and making it go further. It would also require less dressing making it also taste better. You could even smell the salad. I don’t know why it was so complicated. When you eat salad at home you are suppose to tear it rather than cut it so it doesn’t go brown prematurely.
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It’s Sunday and The Spirit Of The Lawd is upon me. Jeebus came to preach hope to the poor, the downtrodden, and the feeble of mind …. He had Clammy in mind, I’m sure. I am only doing what Jeebs would do.
But that ends at midnight tonight.
After reading Clam Prepper’s description of an OG “salad” ……….. WHO IN THE FUCK would EVER eat there??
It’s not just OG. All “chain” restaurants have shit-salad … and it all starts with shitty devoid-of-ANY-nutrients Iceberg lettuce.
The local Farmers Market opens in a couple months. Can’t wait to get my hands on fresh, real, greens.
Stucky- Your typically American is stupid. They don’t realize ice berg has no nutrition. I prefer my salads to be as colorful as possible. I use spinach as a filler along with the greener parts of romaine. OG has romaine, but very little. It is mostly ice berg cores and cabbage shavings.