CEO of candle wrapping, seems legit. $50 a day man? What year was this in? My first job (at 13) was in a supermarket sorting soda bottles returned for their deposits into the respective brands/companies for re-use. I worked 4-9 Thursday night, 8-12 Saturday morning and two other weekdays 4-6...I earned about $40 a week. Lol. Granted, it was in 1983.
I started paying board to my parents as soon as I started working, $20 a week...they didn't have a lot of money and it made a difference, I guess similar to you. #ownership #responsibility #lifelessons
I hope you're well mate, and your weekend is enjoyable.
I think it would have been around 1990-1991. I think the recession was around 1992 if I'm remembering correctly. I didn't always earn $50 a day, it was dependent on how much I wrapped, but I think I was earning between $30-$50 each day.
Unfortunately I was eventually replaced by a wrapping machine, and then I just kind of did odd jobs until I was old enough to drive and do pizza delivery. During my uni course we actually worked for a full year in the 3rd year (and then came back to study full time in the 4th year) so I paid board during that year but moved out after that finished. I think I was 20 or so.
Thanks! It's Friday night here so the weekend is just starting!
Yeah, I figured and yeah, your dates are right. That's pretty good cash for a kid I'd say, and all for wrapping candles.
I shook my head when I read the wrapping machine comment. So many jobs kids would do to learn some work ethic, earn a few bucks and actually contribute to society are gone, replaced by machines or AI. I don't think it's a good thing. They should all have to go into the military for two years, just my opinion; three meals a day, ownership and discipline, life skills. They're not seeming to get it currently.
Yeah, I've kind of said that for years, and especially if they're doing lots of disaster relief work and building refugee infrastructure to also learn some perspective as well as discipline, etc.
Exactly, they don't all have to bang away behind a rifle, there's a lot the military do that doesn't involve killing and, here at least, there's simply not enough to do it - people don't want to seem to work as @bozz and I were discussing in another comment in this post.
Perspective, work-ethic, discipline, consistency, persistence, tolerance, team-work, camaraderie, ability to take direction, give it, to lead by example...there's so many things the military teaches and that those lessons can be learned without having to kill someone is of value. The ADF, the Army in particular, is many thousands of personnel short of required recruitment levels and there's no way to get people there despite the money being very solid and the opportunity also...Maybe the threat of war with China holds them away (not a good enough reason in my mind) maybe people just don't want to work. I guess the young people would want to all go in as Generals, Major Generals and Brigadiers and not enlist as Privates. #idiots
I mean, does anyone really want to work?
If I had financial freedom my life would definitely be quite different.
I know it's been a very popular past time to complain that younger generations are lazy, a past time that's existed ever since there was more than one generation, but how excited should younger generations be about going into the workforce? House prices are completely unobtainable, interest and inflation are super high, career progression is extremely hard, education costs are rising, everything seems absolutely intent on bleeding everyone completely dry and I'm sure it's hard to feel optimistic about the future with climate change making everything so uncertain.
One of my mates dropped out of school in Year 10, started as a tradie and had bought his first house before I'd even finished Uni. I was much later to the game but I still managed to get a foothold in. Those same opportunities just don't exist anymore.
If the Army isn't getting the people that it needs, it's just going to have to increase its incentives until it does. Simple supply and demand.
Good point, there's better things to do than work, but getting out of high school and doing those things isn't really going to happen, and so work is required...there's no free rides. The freedom of financial freedom doesn't generally come for free. Maybe no one should work, ever, I wonder what the world would look and be like. No power, gas, medical assistance, no law, no nothing. Some may thrive...but not those who don't want to apply some effort.
Let's see though, less and less are working, the youth don't want to and still seem to do ok...until they do not. They'll reap what they sow.
Yeah, I have no idea. The US unemployment rate is currently at 3.9% which is super, super low, and Australia seems to be at 3.6% so the data suggests that everyone is working - but I don't know if your experience is very different to that.