Question for people over 50, also anyone else who's got input.

[dingoofus]

So I got a question, do you people honestly reckon the generation now are soft and weak? I'm 19 and I gotta say, I'm ashamed of this generation. My great grandfather was a cane cutter and worked full time since he was 12. My pop worked hard all his life too and got a street named after him..

These days people want office jobs, or rely on technology too much. Not much people these days do a honest days hard work. The men of the past were fit strong men. Nowadays we have wimpy emos.

So, should we be ashamed of the people in this genration. Have we become too lazy?

 

[Liam]

oath. lets look 100 years ago. if any of us right now, were forced to do the hardships those young Aussies had to endure in Gallipoli or France during WWI we would all die. If any of us were forced to make the Burma-Thai railway, like the POW's did when they were under control of Nippon, we'd cease to exist. we're not lazy, it's with recent advancements in technology that we've become weak. everything is made easy for us.

sure, I'm appauled at myself and my generation plus the last generation, but that's who we are. in 50 years our children will think we're brutal.

we're soft cocks in comparison with our ancestors, we can't change that.

 

[dingoofus]

oath. lets look 100 years ago. if any of us right now, were forced to do the hardships those young Aussies had to endure in Gallipoli or France during WWI we would all die. If any of us were forced to make the Burma-Thai railway, like the POW's did when they were under control of Nippon, we'd cease to exist. we're not lazy, it's with recent advancements in technology that we've become weak. everything is made easy for us.

sure, I'm appauled at myself and my generation plus the last generation, but that's who we are. in 50 years our children will think we're brutal.

we're soft cocks in comparison with our ancestors.

Here here. I'm trying to make a difference though, lol. I try make my work harder for myself, and push myself to my limits.

 

[Nic]

oath. lets look 100 years ago. if any of us right now, were forced to do the hardships those young Aussies had to endure in Gallipoli or France during WWI we would all die. If any of us were forced to make the Burma-Thai railway, like the POW's did when they were under control of Nippon, we'd cease to exist. we're not lazy, it's with recent advancements in technology that we've become weak. everything is made easy for us.

sure, I'm appauled at myself and my generation plus the last generation, but that's who we are. in 50 years our children will think we're brutal.

we're soft cocks in comparison with our ancestors, we can't change that.

that and now college is easier to get into... back then you needed $$$ to go to school so there were more blue collar hard laborers... there are still plenty of roughnecks in this generation but now its easier to go to school and get that 9-5 office job...

 

[Pharaoh]

Hey, I have an office job. I got to school full time. I would would readily give it all up for a manual labor job if the pay could support my way of life. Problem is, the world has become so focused on money that we have had to "create" jobs that justify more money. Of course, then you would be knocking capitalism.

There also weren't so many people with their hands out expecting everything for free. I gotta help pay for all these people I guess.

rant over....

 

[packer43064]

Meh, I'm not ashamed. Time changes, it never stays the same. gas goes up and down, stock plummet then rise, nothing stays the same. I'm a happy 20 year old, I don't have a office job. I would probably qualify as a semi-hard labor job, but who cares. I love where I am, and if you think this generation is lazy, then that's great. Either way I like where I am and as long as I have a job that supports me and future family and fish of course, and I have friends to make me happy I could care less. Sorry didn't mean to offend anyone, you asked I told.

 

[Aqua Sanctuary]

I would agree for a large percent of the population. I done a good share of brutal labor. A good bit of my hobbies are what most would consider hard labor.. lol
example: I enjoy practicing blacksmithing. Hot fires, heavy hammers, glowing metal.. I'm in heaven!

I have friends that I would never dare ask to participate, because I know they simply wouldn't be able to.

The technological revolution has crippled humankind. Its just another turning point in our evolution.

 

[JenTN]

We might be "softer" but 100 years ago, people lived much shorter lives, infants died at an alarming rate, and people were very uneducated.

I don't think we are all "weak". I'm a 28 year old mother of 2. I have a full time job. It's a desk job, but I worked 3 years 12 hour night shifts with an infant then toddler to get here- didn't put my daughter in daycare til she was 2, usually got 2 hours of sleep.

In less than 2 years time (2006-2008ish) I had 6 surgeries. In August 2008, I passed out, fell, and broke my leg and ankle in three places- had my husband help me up, took a shower, waited 3 hours to go to the emergency room. They finally gave me something for pain like 2 hours after I got there, then took me for surgery- had a pretty good sized rod, pins and screws in my leg- hospital two nights. I fell/had surgery Tuesday- I was back to work the following Sunday (in a wheelchair, but I was there). 3 months later, my husband and I spearated- I was still using a walker. I had to walk around downtown on a walker, trying to talk to a lawyer, domestic voilence people, courts- oh did I mention my ex is a cop and made my life liveing he**?? Ask me how many days of work I missed....1 or 2 maybe, because when I was moving out in a hurry I twisted the ankle I had broken a few months before.

So now I'm a single mom w/ 2 kids....but it's all made me stronger. And my mom is a single mom, and we all live together in her 4-bedroom house she worked for.

We're not all lazy

 

[packer43064]

We might be "softer" but 100 years ago, people lived much shorter lives, infants died at an alarming rate, and people were very uneducated.

I don't think we are all "weak". I'm a 28 year old mother of 2. I have a full time job. It's a desk job, but I worked 3 years 12 hour night shifts with an infant then toddler to get here- didn't put my daughter in daycare til she was 2, usually got 2 hours of sleep.

In less than 2 years time (2006-2008ish) I had 6 surgeries. In August 2008, I passed out, fell, and broke my leg and ankle in three places- had my husband help me up, took a shower, waited 3 hours to go to the emergency room. They finally gave me something for pain like 2 hours after I got there, then took me for surgery- had a pretty good sized rod, pins and screws in my leg- hospital two nights. I fell/had surgery Tuesday- I was back to work the following Sunday (in a wheelchair, but I was there). 3 months later, my husband and I spearated- I was still using a walker. I had to walk around downtown on a walker, trying to talk to a lawyer, domestic voilence people, courts- oh did I mention my ex is a cop and made my life liveing he**?? Ask me how many days of work I missed....1 or 2 maybe, because when I was moving out in a hurry I twisted the ankle I had broken a few months before.

So now I'm a single mom w/ 2 kids....but it's all made me stronger. And my mom is a single mom, and we all live together in her 4-bedroom house she worked for.

We're not all lazy

I think nowdays with people getting laid off people are doing more harsh things. They may not be picking beans in the fields or making houses by hand mostly but I know I used to work two jobs almost 40 hours a week and went to highschool. It was rough, but I still did it.

I now work 40 hours a week and go to college full time, might seem easy but it's not at all, if anyone has been in this situation, lol. I care about my grades and not on of them students who can not study and ace a test. I work mostly 5am to 1pm 5 days a week, mostly more because I never get out on time. I go home and do homework and then have to go to bed around 11 the latest to wake up at 4 am the next day. Not every day is like this, I do have a life, but it's no where near easy or "lazy".

I think you might have rattles some MFKer's, lol. But it's all in good faith.

 

[chefjamesscott]

I am 41, I come from a single mother family where my mother went to university full time and worked her buns off to finish and become a teacher. She never stopped working and it is from her I learned my work ethic.

Personally this has become the generation of people's rights when it should actually be the time to say RIGHT people!!!!!

This whole I am entitled theme that runs through society is the endemic that is the cancer of today's world. Also so many 25 and unders who look at what their parents have and fail to realize that such things came from years and years of hard work and did not suddenly just show up because they could get it on credit and pay for it later.

Also there is the digusting change in the way of thinking that life consists in the abundance of possessions that you have and that your worth is measured as well by these things.

I advocate and endorse a work for welfare approach to the social assisstance way of life.

I agree also that the advance in technology has also bred softness into society and those being shaped by this society!

Personally during the school year I work 6 days a week min 12 hrs a day up to 16 hrs. Add to that the time I am putting in building my fish company, I average about 3-5 hours of sleep a night with a recharge period every 2 weeks. I like to say the dreams and visions do not take shape of themselves.

I really think one of the major issues with this world we live in is VICARIOUS EXISTENCE!!!!! By this I mean so many people of all ages have given up their own dreams, visions and passions and have fallen prey to the trappings of the idolize the star of their choice whether it be movies, sports or music. Settling for the brief mistake of thinking life is simply existing, living beneath till they go beneath.

There is a bit more I would put but I think I have gone on long enough.

In short I really think it is not so much the laziness that is the issue, but, rather it is the very clear effort to dumb down society that has been propagated by those who wish society to be filled with sheeple rather than people.

One last thing. I really think it is the severing of ties with rural life in anyway that is one of the main roots of this problem with society. Cut the rural out and replace it with urban and issues happen.