Fair enough, I can see what you're saying. It's something that has kept me up many a night, but for now I've decided to stop pondering over my future. I have had a less than conventional path through life, so I can't really compare myself to someone who's been through the passage of conventional education and come out the other side with a degree and no idea what's next.

I cant compare either, but its how I see my life going. Im likely going to join the military, because I need a job. It will be tiring and have lots of issues, and I could find a better paying job. But I know for a fact I would off myself if I saw my life, spending 40 or so years in an office or factory. I just couldnt live like that.

Well I hope you do find a job you enjoy, and live a happy life. I sound pessimistic as hell, but I wish you the best in your life.

Considering how pathetic people are these days, I am inclined to agree with her.

Why have common sense ? I can jsut act like a [censored] idiot, then sue people for my stupidity.
Dont voice an oppinion I dont agree with either, I am very thin skinned.

I dunno, you hear about the Dark Ages? They were pretty bad. Same with the Middle Ages. 16th-18th century? Bit better, still pretty bad. Victorian era? Yeah, still pretty awful. 20th Century? Those wars were a bit of a blot, eh? As was the bit afterwards with all the nukes.

I'd take being [censored] and killed by marauding vikings over deal or no [censored] deal anyday of the week.

Several jobs of mine I've helped sort thru resumes to hire people (even helping both of my sisters try and find jobs) and ironically the way Gen Y (which is starting to turn 30 now) approaches essential parts of life such as a job merits the type of attention it gets, even if it doesn't have a convenient ring for you. There are indeed far too many spoiled rotten people in this generation (it isn't even the newest generation -- the person who writes it was born likely ~ 1985-1988 judging by when they graduated), which ended with the new millennium, and certainly I'm with the writer that it needs to change. While I cannot control how others do it, I can certainly control how I raise my daughter, and entitlement is not one of those ways it's going to be done.

Discrimination is fun and the new in hip to do thing on these forums SentientSurfer. Can't you tell? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ageism

I dunno, you hear about the Dark Ages? They were pretty bad. Same with the Middle Ages. 16th-18th century? Bit better, still pretty bad. Victorian era? Yeah, still pretty awful. 20th Century? Those wars were a bit of a blot, eh? As was the bit afterwards with all the nukes.

Common sense? In the Cold War?

There were nukes and the communists!

Atheists and heathens!

What does it feel like, I wonder, to grow up and realize that you’re nothing special after all?

Damnit turns, you had to ruin it. This thread would have been less entertaining, if more people understood sarcasm.

Anyone else feel like taking a serrated knife to that writer's face?

Frankie Thomas is a freelance writer, transcriber, college dropout, parakeet owner, and community theater dilettante who grew up in Manhattan and now lives in Brooklyn.

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