tips to young people
I just tossed out my latest cy of 'The Sun' magazine & was left thinking of what might be different today if young people all of a sudden smartened up. Just a tiny bit smarter than the system, not to steal or cheat, but just to use the brains God gave a goose.
we live in a medium-sized town which has attracted alot of people, all ages but many young both sexes. they work in many of the svc jobs, flipping burgers, checkout at Big Lots, waiting tables & one can pretty well spot the ones who'll be on the way to an actual life 5-10 yrs from now and the ones who still haven't got life figured out at all. there are the ones who have maybe 1-2 little kids, hoping by some miracle the child support check will show up, laying some guy w/o any job or hope of one, but nice tats. BIG SECRET---in Food service the customer is there for food not served by somebody with flowing hair which gets smoothed back all the time, or with an slite facial boo-boo they are occasionally poking.
I came away from the latest Sun magazine with some firm ideas--- it was full of articles by young(ish) people & some quite good photography. Generally, one would say, they can write complete sentences, even paragraphs sometimes, but they have a serious sense of humor deficit and take themselves VERY seriously. A good example of this in a career job w/ lots of visibility would be Maureen Dowd, NY Times columnist.
it's true, many of these younger ones should have been drowned shortly after birth like kittens, but now what? they won't get immunization for their kids because they heard (at the organic food store) there was something BAD(?) in the serum. They can't begin to grasp the notion of 'organic' meaning containing carbon, but they'll believe anything they hear or read from the sorries who never finished college. They want to pursue a career in giving enemas or mumbo-jumbo, or classes in 'you name it'. massage is good. they believe journalism is showing up at a press conference, grabbing a press release & rushing to their laptop to paraphrase so it is a 'news story.
if you are in need of more advice, I'm here for you.
we live in a medium-sized town which has attracted alot of people, all ages but many young both sexes. they work in many of the svc jobs, flipping burgers, checkout at Big Lots, waiting tables & one can pretty well spot the ones who'll be on the way to an actual life 5-10 yrs from now and the ones who still haven't got life figured out at all. there are the ones who have maybe 1-2 little kids, hoping by some miracle the child support check will show up, laying some guy w/o any job or hope of one, but nice tats. BIG SECRET---in Food service the customer is there for food not served by somebody with flowing hair which gets smoothed back all the time, or with an slite facial boo-boo they are occasionally poking.
I came away from the latest Sun magazine with some firm ideas--- it was full of articles by young(ish) people & some quite good photography. Generally, one would say, they can write complete sentences, even paragraphs sometimes, but they have a serious sense of humor deficit and take themselves VERY seriously. A good example of this in a career job w/ lots of visibility would be Maureen Dowd, NY Times columnist.
it's true, many of these younger ones should have been drowned shortly after birth like kittens, but now what? they won't get immunization for their kids because they heard (at the organic food store) there was something BAD(?) in the serum. They can't begin to grasp the notion of 'organic' meaning containing carbon, but they'll believe anything they hear or read from the sorries who never finished college. They want to pursue a career in giving enemas or mumbo-jumbo, or classes in 'you name it'. massage is good. they believe journalism is showing up at a press conference, grabbing a press release & rushing to their laptop to paraphrase so it is a 'news story.
if you are in need of more advice, I'm here for you.
posted by allen at 9:39 AM
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