highwaystar101 said:
Urgh, I hate to admit it as someone who is from generation Y (apparently), but you're right. We've entered a world where being a hairdresser is a respected and much sought after career. The west is just dominated by shallow tertiary industry jobs with flashy titles that don't mean anything (Eg: Hair technician/scientist). Out of everyone I know who works, I think perhaps only 10% work in the primary and secondary industries. The concept is almost alien to them. It's not that they don't want to work, it's that they just don't know about that kind of world because they have never experienced it (for reasons I wont get into here and now) and as a result they see the glamorous and shallow jobs as hard work. I've tried my best to stay away from that world, that so many people my age engage in.
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I blame the previous generations for raising them like that. If you're not taught to value work, you're in for a rude awakening when it's time to get into the real world. Out of all of my friends and college students I've come to know that are my age and even some of the high school seniors that i mentor, working a 9-5 (or working period) is almost completely foreign to them. Usually they don't even know how to go about getting a job until they take a career class in college or hiogh school and most have never worked with their hands in their entire lives.
My family was pretty poor during my childhood and teen years so I learned to work with my hands (building fences, laying tile, painting, etc.) early because we wanted to live better, even if we didn't have a lot of money. Having a job was also a requirement in my household, so I've had a part-time job since I was 15.
On a lighter note: LMAO at hair technician/scientist.
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