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Yup!
Need to differentiate between striving to collect money to by stuff and trying to collect stuff bought by other people's money.
Can FE be a Good Career for Lazy, Unmotivated Post-Milennialls?
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Yup!
Need to differentiate between striving to collect money to by stuff and trying to collect stuff bought by other people's money.
Sounds as if he is like a lot of them.. He is motivated by other people's money.. Will leach as much as he can whether from relatives or the taxpayers.
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Maybe, maybe not ... which is why I asked. When I got out of high school I enlisted in the Marines. I fractured my kneecap in an accident two weeks before shipping out, and once healed, they wouldn't touch me.
My dad wanted me to go to college but I knew that would be a waste of my time and his money at the point. So I got a full-time job cleaning carpets during the day and then a second full-time job working second shift as an auto mechanic first a Lincoln-Mercury dealer, then rebuilding transmissions for Aamco. I was money motivated, and I got addicted to saving my money.
By the time I was ready for college, I didn't need my dad's money - and I sure wasn't going to waste my time or my money that I had worked 16 hours/day for three years to save. I did very well in college because I knew how to work hard.
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There is light at the end of the tunnel.
This sounds like a version of my youngest son.
Except - in middle school I suspected weed. I found it and handled it, I thought. His HS sophomore year I found out he cut school and was at a friend's house drinking and smoking. I roll up and they are walking/dragging his drunken ass down the street trying to sober him up. The girl friend has called her cousin for a ride. I chuck his skinny ass into the car.
Now I get him home. My wife wants him to go to bed. Sure, no problem, after he finishes the jobs I have for him. 105' outside, mama is bringing him water. He is out there drunk and dreuling on his self. At dark he came in. The old man was on it, so I thought. This kid, Different girl friends. And several hustles to make money. Only one fight, that I am aware of. I was just trying to keep the boys out of jail. My girls were saints, of course.
I found out around the firepit during times when the three boys were together I did not know the half of it. The chip did not fall from tree. I was the reason my mother was crazy.
By the way, the two younger boys preferred to deal with me than their older brother Sgt USMC. While he was more understanding as to what they were doing. He believes Stupid stunts win Stupid prizes.
So far happy ending part.
While deployed he emails me that he understood. And thanked me for trying to keep his shit straight. Two years ago. One year, left in the USMC, he got married to a great girl. Very nice wedding at a local resort. They paid cash for it. A year ago they bought a 2017 jeep in anticipation of him coming home. Paid cash. He came home, used his military experience and credentials to land a nice job in the DC area. Bought another car, only took a loan because he needed another credit account. Today they closed on a nice home in Brandywine, MD. He is barely 24.
There is a different forum I belong to that has a thread where people are sharing their past. These men and women are doing well in the Insurance industry. If you read their histories you would not have guessed it.
He can do great.
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Good weed's not cheap?
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goillini52 said:
Good weed's not cheap?
You are a very bad influence... I'm trying to get this kid in line!
Good weed's not cheap?
You are a very bad influence... I'm trying to get this kid in line!
monstrhuntr
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The high cost is why most of us quit that kind of stuff. lol
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Have him work on the farm. An out of order bull can help a young man acquire necessary instinctive skills.
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I hear that all the time.
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