The workforce is doomed

[MadAsAHatter]

The chart comes from this article
https://www.intelligent.com/nearly-...cent-college-grads-in-favor-of-older-workers/

This is just sad. Apparently some people need their mommies.

 

[Totally Bored]

No surprise.

 

[VonBonfire]

It's not the full story considering there are still kids willing to work for a living going into the trades. At this point the trades are where it's at now. Plus many of them don't require a lot of start up and so independents can still do well. I advised my kid to go into something he can freelance for himself if he so chooses. Maybe it'll work out for the best and the producers of the world willl drain the funds of the "intelligentsia" since most of them couldn't fix a drip or stack two pieces of wood together and their desk jobs are being replaced by AI. Perhaps those who produce nothing will be back on the bottom again.

 

[Ben Waylin]

Perhaps those who produce nothing will be back on the bottom again.

Matthew 20:16

 

[japetus]

Matthew 20:16

Proverbs 12:19

 

[rsm]

"People are strange" - Jim Morrison

Enjoy the decline

 

[Stumplegriltskin]

Good, I hope there's no workforce. I'm tired of working and getting fucked by the system. 40 hour workweek. FU. Reduce it to something fucking reasonable.

Enjoy the decline

 

[rsm]

 

[VonBonfire]

Good, I hope there's no workforce. I'm tired of working and getting fucked by the system. 40 hour workweek. FU. Reduce it to something fucking reasonable.

Enjoy the decline

This is why I gig and live cheap. Gigs and odd jobs here and there. Ain't gonna live high on the hog but no one single employer can fully leverage me and I can work when I want. I put a day in on my own house every week because in the end I will make more money from that work than I will from someone else.

 

[rsm]

A few years ago I started looking for a new job, and got a call from my current employer; I've only been there ~18 months, got a signing bonus as well as a few other bonuses; already got a nice raise at 12 months; the base salary is great, the commissions are great; and I get to drive my porsche to client meetings, and rarely have to get on a plane (my last job, we were industry focused and half of my clients were in different time zones across the country, the only thing worse was an older job where I was part of a global team, and had clients around the world.)

I plan to retire early in the next 2-3 years, but since taking this job I've been rethinking that plan...and getting a newer or even bigger sailboat.

 

[Stumplegriltskin]

yeah I got a state job now, state benefits, M-F no after hours or weekends, but being I handle everything here, servers, network, etc... I'm it. M-F 40 hours on site. Had it with work. But it's 10 minute commute. Anybody told me to get on a plane for < 300K a year = go FU

 

[Stumplegriltskin]

This is why I gig and live cheap. Gigs and odd jobs here and there. Ain't gonna live high on the hog but no one single employer can fully leverage me and I can work when I want. I put a day in on my own house every week because in the end I will make more money from that work than I will from someone else.

That's gonna be me in a few years when my mortgage overlords are paid off. I just want to do some small carpentry shit part time here and there. Last mortgage check, I'm gonna send the last check in a big box full of styrofoam peanuts with a card in it that says FUCKING FUCK YOU

 

[VonBonfire]

That's gonna be me in a few years when my mortgage overlords are paid off. I just want to do some small carpentry shit part time here and there. Last mortgage check, I'm gonna send the last check in a big box full of styrofoam peanuts with a card in it that says FUCKING FUCK YOU

More or less what I'm doing now. Gigs and small fixes of a wide variety. Me and my old lady initially pooled a small but equal amount of cash and lived like white trash on a cheap property until I could build my own place on it so I didn't need a mortgage. I'm all about paying cash. I flipped a cheaper place first and then sunk the cash into this one.

I was thinking about selling this and building small cabin homesteads on acreage, living in them for a few years, then flipping them around once I've beaten the capital gains taxes. I think it's 3 years minimum stay. I notice there are a lot of nice, affordable, rural creek front properties with nothing on them that don't move but would sell quickly and probably rather profitably if you had a small turnkey cabin on it with basic amenities.