[quote=scaredyclassic][quote=The-Shoveler]I think I remember the HS Grad speech,
It was something like
You’er not special, you’er most likely just cogs in the machine.
Welcome to the machine.
Yep I think that was the gist of it
But then again that was in the 70’s and things were a little fuzzy.[/quote]
today’s comparable speech would be, robots do everything you can do but better and faster, the best you can hope for is a universal basic income, legal weed and hopefully a,few gallons of water rations. you’re so fucking special, you snowflake u, problem is all the snowflakes melted with global warming…[/quote]scaredy, I get all this. I got it over 15 years ago. All you can do is counsel your recent graduate to 1) NOT take out any student loans behind your back; 2) major in an occupation that no humans in India (or robots) can replace and declare that major ASAP (NOW would be preferable); and 3) take summer classes if they have to in order to graduate in four years.
It’s okay, scaredy. All the special snowflakes out there working at Starbucks at age 28 (some with a Bachelor’s AND Master’s degree) are doing so because 1) they majored in the “wrong” field, and 2) they refuse to leave their “comfort zone” (parent’s home/hometown) and thus won’t apply for entry level positions in another county or state to get their foot in the door to start their careers.
The above description of an “indebted do-nothing college graduate” is particularly prevalent in SD County as well as the rest of SoCal. These kids don’t want to leave our weather and the “comforts” of parents’ homes and neighborhoods (backyard pool/beach neighborhood, etc) and the parents are taking them back after college graduation open-endedly with no plan to ever be on their own.
This phenomenon isn’t near as prevalent in “flyover country” where its residents don’t enjoy nearly as much of a “comfortable life” that we in SoCal do. Nor is it that prevalent on the east coast. When I moved to SD in my early 20’s, a lot of my “contemporaries” (mostly co-workers) were FT college students living with parents. Some were graduate students who were several years older than me living with parents. The “coddled-teen-turned-coddled-adult” phenomenon was present in SD County ~40 years ago and is still present today. While living in my own rented apt (and paying my own rent), I was amazed that all these people my own age and older were still living with parents at 22-30+ years old and had no plans to move out (it only took 4 yrs to graduate from college back then and students didn’t graduate with debt as CC/UC/CSU were “free” or had a very nominal cost). I was especially amazed at a couple of my co-workers who were unmarried single moms living with their parent(s) and who had more child(ren) while living with parents! Over 80% of my own HS class (in “flyover country”) moved away from home ASAP after HS graduation (some the very next day or weekend, after they recovered from all the grad parties). A couple dozen of my classmates had their own apt all during their senior year in HS and worked at least 32 hrs per week to pay for it. A handful of my classmates were married their entire senior year and several of my married female classmates were in various stages of pregnancy in their caps and gowns at graduation. About 8-10% of the males in my HS class enlisted in the military the summer after our graduation. About 17% of my HS class immediately went on to college away from home and another ~3% of us (me incl) attended college as a freshman while living in the same (or adjacent) city we grew up in (junior college and state college). Almost NONE of us stayed “home” (parent[s] homes) to work FT after HS or while attending college … even as a freshman!
It seems as if part of the “SoCal culture” is to hang with mom and/or dad as long as possible for ALL races/nationalities. There are people on my block (2) who are 65-70 years old who never moved out of mom and dad’s house. Of course, they each now just have one parent left whom they are now assisting in their day to day lives.
