Are Gen Y too lazy too work?

[pastro243]

mrstickball said:

pastro243 said:
Oh, I think part of the problem with no one wanting to be a constructor these days is that, at least in my country, they dont pay well for those type of jobs but at least here there are people willing to do them.

And i think its not fair to judge people just because they dont want to live the traditional life, or want something more, because in the end, very few end up doing the things they want to.

As I stated, in America we have the exact opposite problem.

We have a huge demand for construction jobs by skilled people, but no one wants to do physical labor. Its a big reason as to why we have so many people crossing the border from the south: Americans are too lazy to work in a field, do construction, or other 'difficult' jobs for the wages offered, but people from other countries would beg to be paid $10-15/hr for jobs like those, so they come in-country and do the jobs either under the table or just at legality.

I don't blame them for that, its entirely our fault. I live in a very generic midwestern town. We have maybe 2 or 3 plumbers (people to do home repairs), and they are either good, and cannot do your work because they have too much to handle, or they are available and horribly lazy and don't do work right.

And its incredible that people don't do these jobs. A licensed electrician charges $40-60/hr in the US. Trade school is barely needed, as most of the skill is on-the-job training. I know this because I own an apartment complex that is having its electrical system replaced. Its insane trying to find the right people to work for you. And guess how many of them are between the ages of 18-30? Almost none. Unless they are mexican (not trying to be racist by any means, but that is the American demographic for construction work. Your either old and white or young and mexican).

 

I don't think anyone can or should bash others for wanting to do whatever job brings them joy. However, the fact is that some people will not realize their passion because the work is beneath them. I worked as a government worker as a park caretaker and had a blast doing the physical labor, but all the while, most of my friends went to college, thinking that kind of work was beneath them.

Now the friends I know that had any sort of physical labor job are in high demand, while the artsy ones are working at fast food.

 

Well, here we have inmigration from Bolivia and Peru and they do the work some chilean workers are not willing to do at lower salaries, its not as massive, but it exists. But my point was that its not a generation thing and more like different circumstances, which may be economical, technological, etc... lead to current state of young people, and these circumstances they live are not caused by young people so I think judging them by these is not apropiate.

Going by what Mafoo said, people will work as much as they need to acording to the times and their own necesities, I dont consider work to be desireable(of course it can be but the general consensus is that its not), and maybe the phenomenom you speak of will change eventually when people realize with phisical work they can obtain more money doing it.