A-Fucken-MEN brother. Same boat here.
On the nisky lot there was a thread titled: “Anyone want a full time job? Not hard work, mon-fri, 50 hours weekly. Located in Latham off rt.7, no lazy fucks”
And comments were made that they worked it too for at the time ABOVE min wage. It sucks, it was very hard work, worst job I ever had… WASHING FUCKING BMW’S AT A DEALERSHIP. If it was cold they washed them inside.
I replied: “Want a job, followed up with “Not hard work”… just what every stereotypical 18 to early twenties kid is looking for. But thats only if it pays 48K a year. LOL”
The OP agreeded with me and I then followed it up with: No shit, thats exactly why alot of us old fucks come off like we have a stick up our asses. I heard today on the holiday break ins for Free Beer and Hotwings… a struggling family with 3 kids the mother worked hard, and the dad worked 100hrs a week to make do. The dad put in his 2 weeks because he finally found a great job and things were looking up. One late night while he was working off his 2 weeks notice, he fell asleep at the wheel, hit a box truck, and died! That man sacrificed every ounce of energy he had to barely keep his family going, and just when things were starting to look up, he was taken. It’s shit like that, that makes me want to punch some young fucking kid in the face that wont get off their ass and take a fucking shitty job, or worse, they graduate college with $60K in loans and think they deserve to walk in and replace a CEO
My first job was a lot monkey for alpin haus. I powerwashed RV’s outside in 10 degree windy weather in feb. Even with the kero heater on the pressure washer making hot water shit still froze to the side of the RV. I would have to fork lift $180K boats off delivery trailers with slings, in freezing rain, allways end of shift staying late to have to get it done. From age 16-19 or so I did that shit.