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Can I talk to gen z.. a minute?
a year ago
Okay first off us gen millennials have your back but... So does gen x considering I kinda fall in the middle.
It's not your fault for not buying a house in 2003 before you were born.. 15 an hour back in the 80s and 90s was like a 100k a year now.
Do not go into college but learn trades and skills..
The boomer memes about "derp they don't know how to change their cars oil haha stupid kids" are like meme of us saying "because you went to Walmart to have your oil changed"
I feel it I hear it I am shocked and scared that someone cannot take a needle and thread and fix their jeans.. why because they didn't teach ya this stuff...
How to make a fire, boil water, sharpen a full knife, balance your budget, teach you skills that won't be obsolete in 10 years.. how to fix a leaky sink.. sorry if I am sounding a bit condescending but yeah my mother was from the silent generation the big war and government being bad(words from her times presidents up until JFK and Reagan was the last to say government bad dont care about the political side if you know me ya know)
I often have asked people here on fa.. and other sites what do you do on a computer, as I thought AI would be my grand kids problem And now well.. I don't see a robo drone flying out and patching someone from a boating incident, the 3d printed buildings? Are laughable since they don't have plumbing, electrical, HVAC, cabinets, ECT..
I was very wrong during the first part of the Ukraine invasion (very very very very very very very very very wrong) as it happened so
Fuck college learn a skill.. as Mike Rowe even has programs to let you get free apprenticeship while being paid for things..
I can type on a computer if I had one.. I use my phone... I can reset a router..
I cannot do a heart transplant, I cannot ensure 24/7 monitoring of my property, I cannot use a computer to lay out an entire factory floor..
But I can repair the machines the heart surgeons need to have, I can build the sentry systems to monitor, I can crudely sketch out the plans for the factory, weld it together, wire it up, lay the foundation and put in the windows. And toilets and septic systems.
I am worried that now the old high paying jobs that ai cannot replace until you have robots in your house with construction gear, the old wise man of the shop teaching you.. you will make a very suspicious amount of furry money with these jobs that are always in demand since my generation the millennials walked away from them for tippy tappies on keyboards that some random programmer can replicate very fast.
Best of wishes, much love and keep them paws dirty in the garden
It's not your fault for not buying a house in 2003 before you were born.. 15 an hour back in the 80s and 90s was like a 100k a year now.
Do not go into college but learn trades and skills..
The boomer memes about "derp they don't know how to change their cars oil haha stupid kids" are like meme of us saying "because you went to Walmart to have your oil changed"
I feel it I hear it I am shocked and scared that someone cannot take a needle and thread and fix their jeans.. why because they didn't teach ya this stuff...
How to make a fire, boil water, sharpen a full knife, balance your budget, teach you skills that won't be obsolete in 10 years.. how to fix a leaky sink.. sorry if I am sounding a bit condescending but yeah my mother was from the silent generation the big war and government being bad(words from her times presidents up until JFK and Reagan was the last to say government bad dont care about the political side if you know me ya know)
I often have asked people here on fa.. and other sites what do you do on a computer, as I thought AI would be my grand kids problem And now well.. I don't see a robo drone flying out and patching someone from a boating incident, the 3d printed buildings? Are laughable since they don't have plumbing, electrical, HVAC, cabinets, ECT..
I was very wrong during the first part of the Ukraine invasion (very very very very very very very very very wrong) as it happened so
Fuck college learn a skill.. as Mike Rowe even has programs to let you get free apprenticeship while being paid for things..
I can type on a computer if I had one.. I use my phone... I can reset a router..
I cannot do a heart transplant, I cannot ensure 24/7 monitoring of my property, I cannot use a computer to lay out an entire factory floor..
But I can repair the machines the heart surgeons need to have, I can build the sentry systems to monitor, I can crudely sketch out the plans for the factory, weld it together, wire it up, lay the foundation and put in the windows. And toilets and septic systems.
I am worried that now the old high paying jobs that ai cannot replace until you have robots in your house with construction gear, the old wise man of the shop teaching you.. you will make a very suspicious amount of furry money with these jobs that are always in demand since my generation the millennials walked away from them for tippy tappies on keyboards that some random programmer can replicate very fast.
Best of wishes, much love and keep them paws dirty in the garden
Turns out,,, they were absolutely correct.
I'm 'Tech-delinquent,' and freely admit it. My skills on these infernal devices is limited to typing, and 'Copy/Pasting,' and I know how to click the 'Send/Send to Trash' button thingies for emails.
That's pretty much it, and to be completely honest, I'm o.k. with that, 99.9% of the time.
Setting the points on my old trucks/cars/heavy equipment (I'm talking diesel here, and no, they don't HAZ 'Points,' but I used to rebuild/tune the suckers up!), hunting, trapping, learning to grow and preserve food stuffs, basic and medium livestock care and vetting (I CAN do some surgical stuffs, but can't charge or make a living off'a it due to laws/insurance demands). All-in-all my skills are the Blue Collar (YAY Mike Rowe! MUAH!) things, and I'm content with that.
Yeah, I see today's children/young peeps, and watch them in town/wherever when the power goes *OUT* or their beloved cell phone/internet signal is compromised, and that 'Look' on their faces?
It'd be damned hilarious, if it wasn't also so damned alarming!
Nothing wrong with following your passions of course and something that should be encouraged no matter the subject matter or one's parents' opinion of it... but at the same time it's only because all other needs have been satisfied. Food, housing, family etc, the solid stuff.
The internet and especially smartphones have made SO easy. No matter the generation, if they can handle a smartphone, that thing never leaves their side. Stay available, stay up to date. But whereas the world of technology changes, so does the rest of the world.
You mentioned not being to afford a house? Thank the older generations for that! Thank Reagan and his stupid ass policies. Thank those multinational cooperation that any subsequent government failed to curtail. Thank those who wouldn't change with the social climate around them. Those sticks in the mud that ruined it for future generations. The climate change deniers, the COVID deniers, the trolls, the meek politicians, the tinpot dictators either in office or behind the desk of Amazon.
And because everything else, internet and everything is SO easy in comparison, along with the existential dread of not being able to afford what your parents could along with what is "expected" of you as either a guy (provide like a good husband), a girl (pump out those babies!) or anyone in between ("BE NORMAL YOU DEGENERATE, no one cares about your made-up gender you fucking snowflake") people slink back into the easy. The depressing but safe.
Learning those skills is very helpful, but why should you? Is it going to pay your rent? Is it going to defog your mind as the world is slowly edging itself to complete annihilation? Does it bollocks.