It's just I see 'kids these days' fixated on being internet influencers and huge swaths of the population taking on ornamental artifices that make them unemployable in most situations (ie, tats and talon nails, etc). Even if they get a job, they get fired because they are addicted to tik tok and can't put their effing phones down for 30 minutes at a time.
All these kids want to go back to the 80's because of the culture. But part of what made back in the 80's what it was, was there were a lot of people working for a living from all walks of life and even if you wanted to be a rock star, you usually had to work for it and work at shit jobs until it broke. Half the damn songs on the radio then were about working for a living. Not what pop culture is focused on now at all.
Anyway, sorry to rant, but it pisses me off because I see how it is weakening us as a country.
I know a man who came to this country as a youth. I’ve known him since then. After years of hard work, he got a restaurant of his own and then two more. It took decades, and he did very well. Not especially well educated, he sent his kids to college. Before his son was even out of college, he posted a funny video of himself cooking. It went viral, and now he owns a few houses of his own, and probably has made more in a few years than his dad made in his entire life.
I’m not sure what to make of it but if that’s all it takes to make millions then I guess the moral of the story is don’t work like a dog like your dad.
I understand the words Charlie, but there is no such thing as being "theoretically willing." Willing only happens during doing. They seem separable, in our minds, but in the flesh they happen simultaneously, or not at all. It's like, "I coulda been a contender." Well no, as Jordan P might say, if ya coulda ya woulda.
I hope that's a good thing...:).
It's just I see 'kids these days' fixated on being internet influencers and huge swaths of the population taking on ornamental artifices that make them unemployable in most situations (ie, tats and talon nails, etc). Even if they get a job, they get fired because they are addicted to tik tok and can't put their effing phones down for 30 minutes at a time.
All these kids want to go back to the 80's because of the culture. But part of what made back in the 80's what it was, was there were a lot of people working for a living from all walks of life and even if you wanted to be a rock star, you usually had to work for it and work at shit jobs until it broke. Half the damn songs on the radio then were about working for a living. Not what pop culture is focused on now at all.
Anyway, sorry to rant, but it pisses me off because I see how it is weakening us as a country.
“Ain’t gonna work on Maggie’s farm no more…”
I know a man who came to this country as a youth. I’ve known him since then. After years of hard work, he got a restaurant of his own and then two more. It took decades, and he did very well. Not especially well educated, he sent his kids to college. Before his son was even out of college, he posted a funny video of himself cooking. It went viral, and now he owns a few houses of his own, and probably has made more in a few years than his dad made in his entire life.
I’m not sure what to make of it but if that’s all it takes to make millions then I guess the moral of the story is don’t work like a dog like your dad.
But one should be willing to do so.
I understand the words Charlie, but there is no such thing as being "theoretically willing." Willing only happens during doing. They seem separable, in our minds, but in the flesh they happen simultaneously, or not at all. It's like, "I coulda been a contender." Well no, as Jordan P might say, if ya coulda ya woulda.
All sounds fishy, a story tarted up with hyperbole just to keep people reading after the "I."
You seem to have no idea what is weakening us as a country.