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@Devildog and @fpgt72 , I just got out of a conversation with a very hard working, positive millennial about this. They are about to graduate and have 8 months until they go onto a certification test that is required. Bu they cannot find a job anywhere at the moment, even hourly part time at menial jobs so they are understandably frustrated. I told them that they are going about everything correctly, and this is just life - keep pushing until you break through. Breaking through right now may mean two or more part time jobs, which won't kill them and will probably yield some good life lessons early (how to handle money, among other things). But while reflecting on that talk I was left with the conclusion that we all aspire to be more than what we are when we are young, and that's good. But there comes a point in most people's lives where they are not where they wanted to be and they look back and ask 'what if". I know i have done it - a different decision here or there and what would have the outcome have been? What I do know is that there is madness in that thought process and a lot of living can be lost by constantly regretting and looking back. Somewhere in the gap between "what could have been" and reality a person needs to be able to find peace and satisfaction. That starts with looking at and acknowledging the good things in our lives; children, safe homes, loving someone and being loved. Those are the building blocks to any degree of real success, yet we tend to overlook those things for other "successes" that have a price tag that includes making those essentials far lower on the priority list.
A simple meal. Like cornbread and chili without beans. A sunrise. A good dog that is your bud. A garden. A workshop. A job well done, no matter how small. Puring positivity and usable advice into young lives that are just starting. There are SO many things we take for granted that we really need to appreciate. This also includes understanding when ships have sailed and saying goodbye to them. If there is life still left to live and those situations can never be had we need to let them go, do something else we determine is worthwhile and enjoy it. There is no need to sour today and tomorrow over yesterday's decisions. I didn't tell my millennial bud that piece - its too early in their life to understand it and they need to be striving because that is the stage of life they are in. But I have learned that it is true.
We bog ourselves down for no real reason. We need to offer ourselves forgiveness and the grace to live our lives without the baggage of needless regret. I'm starting to sound like the old people who coached me back in the day but also beginning to understand how wrong I was and how right they were.
I don't know who needs to hear this, but I know I do, and to be reminded of it.
I would love to know what these millennial's studied and what the certification is in.
Personally I know two, one 23, and that makes her just on the edge of "millennial", the other 19 and is square in the middle of it. The 23 yr old had a job lined up, real job type job before she got out of college. Does something with nutty people in the medical field. I don't really understand what she does, she does "hand out meds". And has already had a gun pulled on her in her office.
The second still in school, a woman of color you would say, and she is working to be a welder. She comes from the most Liberal family I know, very pro Biden, one of the 20% that thinks he is just great. This kid not so much, the folks yup. Again a job lined up and I think she has like a year plus to go, and I think there are certifications she needs to have for that. Big help, and helped with my own welding, said FP you need a new machine, the feed rollers in your old one are just warn, but with as old as it is, you would really do well with a newer machine with more control over the process. Ok, she was right.
I am not saying the people in your story have "worthless" degrees, or paths. But there is a "right and not so right" field to go into. Both these people in two very different directions saw where the hole is going to be and went there. Mental health, and making things.
Medical field as well with high prospects, already interning in their field along with a second internship using horses in the rehab of patients and special needs children. Just has to get the certification once they graduate in a few months. The lead time to the exam is just longer than they anticipated.
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We are the old people now.
Neither of those 2 are millennials. Millennials according to Pew research boils down to where were you on 9/11? Millennials range from kindergarten to not quite legal to buy alcohol. Birth years 1981- 1996.
Gen z are 1997-2012.
Thats hilarious.
I had tags and was thinking about leaving to go hunting.
Pretty sure K helped pack my bags and truck faster than I could check stuff off the list…..
Was hunting. Decided to stay another day.
“Yes dear. Be safe and have fun!”
And then a big hug and kiss when I got home.
And while I missed her too, its good to have apart time and alone time.
I had tags and was thinking about leaving to go hunting.
Pretty sure K helped pack my bags and truck faster than I could check stuff off the list…..
Was hunting. Decided to stay another day.
“Yes dear. Be safe and have fun!”
And then a big hug and kiss when I got home.
And while I missed her too, its good to have apart time and alone time.
Heated waterer didn’t freeze at 10° last night 
Nice. We swapped out the tiny bulb in our hummingbird feeder warmer for a 60w plant bulb since it was dropping to 15*.
My birthday is Dec 31. I party from Dec 1 to New Year's Eve. I get tickets to the Alamo bowl, for a festive gathering of 16 or 20k people (they don't know its my birthday), Two squads of dancing girls, a Veteran's reception center on the same floor as our seats, and stay on base (Ft Sam). December is a hell of a month.
DO NOT CORRECT IT. DO NOT!
I never correct an idiot when they are so sublimely wrong.
Obvious sarcasm alert, but these days you never know. Solar works great here. I used to get to drive around to remote well sites all winter and change the dead and frozen batteries for charged ones, in my gas powered pickup that got about 10mpg. Then take them back to a shop heated with natural gas and charge them with electricity from natural gas or diesel generators. To be fair, those solar systems had nothing to do with saving the world, it was just the best way to get power out in the bush.
Kristian
