I'm sorry to tell you this, but we don't win just for being here. We would actually have to be useful to win. Most of us aren't.
For anyone concerned, I'm not Harold. I'm pretty sure he wasn't yelling at me.This generation is the first generation whose entering the work force with a worse situation with fewer opportunities than the generation that raised them. The millennial generation will be more useful when they're given a chance to actually enter the real work force (i.e. getting real careers and not just jobs).
Also it helps when those of us who do work hard and get a career don't have their career taken away from them because the previous generation can't accept basic freaking science and tries to argue even though they don't know what the freak they're talking about. I don't give a freak about your life experience, Harold, I'm a freaking scientist, I know what I'm talking about because I've seen and worked with the data.
I'm a little salty about it, so I'll just dip away from this thread now.
Might help when your generation stops majoring in LGBT studies and/or Cyber Feminism.
Do you have anything published? Or available somewhere to read? I am, very hesitantly, trying to expand the material I'm reading.
Well, sure. But I'm also talking about the way Universities are catering to the "apparent need for" social reform more than ever. Which, subsequently, allows more and more socially-driven malcontents to ignore the importance of a quality education in favor of becoming the saviors of humanity.We'll yeah those types are in every generation, half my pizza guys are boomers. This generation just has the internet to broadcast their stupidity to the world. Of course as more and more boomers get on there, they broadcast it too.
I'm certain that's true. Technology is advancing at a rapid pace, and has, for as long as I've been in this industry (27 years). I keep up, my peers keep up, and the industry keeps humming along. Those who are reluctant to embrace new technology are phasing themselves out simply by virtue of not being able to fix anything without getting help from those of us who can. I see a lot of young guys working their way up, and some of them are capable of understanding things, and others just aren't. I don't know if that's a generational thing in as much as it's a dedication thing. Lotta REALLY smart boomers in my industry, anyway.
That's frightening. But I'm certain my parents probably thought the same thing. The difference this time, IMO, is the globalist view I'm seeing lately.
Agreed.
Climate change data on earth to better understand how others planets become uninhabitable over billions of years? I don't know that you'd get conclusive data, unless I'm misunderstanding what you meant by that. I mean, Mars - they say - was once capable of sustaining life, but there was no man-made influence on its change in climate. Oh wait. You didn't say man-made in what I quoted. That's my bad.
Yeah, we had to tolerate all of it. According to my leadership (4 companies, 2 battalions on two different continents, and oodles of platoon sergeants and Commodes and first sergeants) the only people who could be held responsible for failure were E5s. So the soldiers learned that they couldn't get in trouble because their NCO would get all the blame. And they promptly stopped giving a fuck.We'll yeah those types are in every generation, half my pizza guys are boomers. This generation just has the internet to broadcast their stupidity to the world. Of course as more and more boomers get on there, they broadcast it too.
I was more speaking on the fact that a lot of boomers simply haven't left the work force, and many failed to adjust for new technology and instead are relying on the next generation to do it for them (which is dumb) which will require a little additional work.
As boomers leave the work force finally the millennial generation will get a chance to make their mark, get into politics, etc. Once they get into politics they will be able to bring change they want, to fix issues important to them.
Personally I don't think guys who are 70-80+ years old (even 60 is pushing it in my opinion) should be allowed to be in politics, making major legislative changes that will impact future generations when they won't suffer any consequences as they'll die before hand, but that's just me, and that's more the fault of millennials for not voting anyway.
Again though, I'm just a little salty because my research into finding habitable planets was shut down because we would take climate change data to better understand how a planet can change to become uninhabitable. I'll be happier again when I can research again.
No, that was just a little joke, not intended to be towards you!
Guys in my unit were great though, hard workers and smart guys, but it's the Rangers, you need to be hard working and smart just to get a shot to make it into the unit. Not sure how other units operated, we didn't tolerate that bullcrap.
But hey, boomers can't blame millenials for things they don't like, we learned it all from them anyway.
There's some validity in that. For me though, if my kids wanted something - like a PlayStation or laptop or phone or whatever - they had to "clock-in", and that was the phrase I used. Meaning, they had to do whatever chores I needed done, and I'd log their pay commensurate with what laborers were making at the time. Go landscape the yard for 4 hours and you'll "earn" 32 dollars or whatever. Put in 50 hours, and you'll get your PlayStation. It was a great arrangement for both of us, and taught them the value of hard work - as well as an appreciation for what they owned. I wish more parents would do something similar, but that's not what I'm seeing.
