If you have teens, and they don't work? What is your reasoning? I just like to know when this ideal changed and why?
2007-12-09 16:45:02 · 20 answers · asked by Xena77 3 in Family & Relationships ➔ Singles & Dating
I've had a job since I was 11 years old (started with paper route)
I'm now 49.
I know what you mean. When I was young, almost every teenager had some type of job, from picking fruit at farms, to busboy at the local restaurant (which is why this argument you always hear about illegals doing jobs Americans won't do is BS - teenagers used to do a lot of that for extra money)
Anyway, I think it's a couple things:
In the 60's, there was this giant backlash against EVERYTHING that was done in the past.
The whole "60's counterculture" thing was all about undoing everything.
Some of that was a good idea (racism, for instance) but the problem with this "cultural revolution" is that they tossed a lot of things that made a lot of sense.
This is one of them.
Couple that with the rise in the economy (things were poorer when I was young), which means these same people who grew up in the 60's, got older, had kids, and started doing what their own parents didn't: spoiling them by buying them whatever they wanted, and not requiring them to "earn your allowance" as they used to say when I was a kid.
Almost nobody I knew, got cash handouts from their parents unless they did chores first.
Now parents just hand a wad of green to the kid for no work.
The other problem is the government:
Along with this cultural revolution, someone decided it was cruel to have anyone under 18 working, so they started the whole Work Permit thing, so basically they've made it harder for kids to work, in fact punishing a lot of employers for hiring them.
This made sense 100 years ago, when you had kids working 12 hours a day in coal mines, not going to school, etc.
But there's a huge difference between that, and a 15 year old washing dishes at the local restaurant for 3 hours after school.
2007-12-09 17:18:41 · answer #1 · answered by dork 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I am 19 in college and have never had an actual job. I have done small odd jobs for people and have earned enough money to have more than all of my friends, even the ones with jobs, and i am always to get whatever i want when i want it. Now with Christmas coming everyone gets mad at me cause idk what i want cause i have everything that i want, well almost but to only really want a few thing screws everyone else over.
BTW...i am not paying for college, parents got it. I have worked before but not like as a regular job and not even one that i could put on a resume.
2007-12-09 18:28:44 · answer #2 · answered by Me 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i got a saturday job in the august i left school when i was 16 and i am 18 now and im still working there and i got another job this september at wilkinsons only temporary though and there was a few young people working there and i think most are temporary maybe it makes young people think they cannot get a full time when they are temporary all teenagers arent like before i left school i had a paper round one summer
2007-12-09 16:54:39 · answer #3 · answered by catssunsetsmusic 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Instead of labelling all adolescents as lazy, perhaps you should look at the causes.
I asked for work as an adolescent - everywhere I was turned down as I was 'too young'. Also many of them are staying on to do A Levels then going to university. How about giving them some slack instead of criticising them all the time? You sound like Jeremy Kyle.
2007-12-09 21:44:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Hi
Perhaps it's because they're smarter than we think they are, they know there are no decent jobs, they'll never be able to afford a house or nice car no matter how hard they work, perhaps they think why should we bother, no-one bothers about us all they want to do is slag us young-uns off, I think it's about time some of us "adults" realised that respect is something you have to earn, it doesn't just come with age. stop criticising the young and start listening to them.
Ray. West York's. U.K.
2007-12-09 16:58:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
They have to work the rest of their lives so maybe they are just saving up their energy for that. I had to work when I was a teen so as I could afford to move out and have some freedom....don't regret it one bit. Hard work can do you some good.
2007-12-09 16:57:22 · answer #6 · answered by Vash 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because most parents today give them whatever they want from the day they are born. Since they are never expected to put forth any effort they don't know what it takes. I suggest you make you children feel the gratification of earning something and don't just spoil them, and then you might grow up with a little bit of pride and work ethic. Basically it's the parents fault.
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2016-05-01 08:10:32 · answer #8 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my daughter has aked for money,i say no and i mean no! she knows very well that if she nags and double nags at me i will end up throwing the money at her shouting "here take the lot" and then off she pops not an ounce of guilt with a grin that says i knew id get it.grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
2007-12-09 17:17:32 · answer #9 · answered by fozz 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My cousin is 16 and has two jobs and goes to college
my other cousin is 18 and has a job while trying to work through college
Another cousin is 18 and has a job
I myself am 19 and yup i have a job
most of my friends are all in their teens and they all have jobs
2007-12-09 16:49:27 · answer #10 · answered by Along the way we fell in love 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋