The golden days when a man could feed a family of four and have a little home with a white picket fence without anything but a high school diploma are gone.
Where do you live, New York City? Get out to the midwest, life is still real here.
I'm in a rural area. The
middle class route for those with no "trade" and no college is pretty much closed now. We've got lots and lots of those folks. They're living in junky apartments or rusty mobile homes unless they're real go getters and their partners are working equally hard.
Old Lady
Do you know how many Septic Pumps I have had to change in the last two plus years because the younger generation can not be bothered to learn?
Or
How many times a damn neighbor ask me to change belts on their Deer tractors because again a young male or female refuse to even youtube to learn?
There are so many things someone can do to earn a extra dollar that require to almost no education and just a lot of damn commonsense!
I took an entire kitchen sink area and moved it to tie into the bathroom plumbing in a small Apartment so the tenant could have a sitting area...
Never did it before but did it once and it worked...
My point?
Commonsense and willingness to work hard in dirty jobs is something many refuse to do...
Because the Government will give them the money for nothing...
