>   Cyberpope wrote --

 > > I try to pass on that thinking to the newbies, but so far not many can
 > > accept it as reality until it's too late at this company.

 >   Too often that isn't taught any longer.  Its all about me: My wants, my
 > needs, etc.

Yup. . .The Me Generation, indeed! :( 

Oh well, I don't have to play their games by their rules.

 > > I'm just grateful my dad taught me hard work & personal responsibility
 > > when I was young.

 >   Something that is missing today.

Mot definitely. I'm trying to teach my son the same values, but it's hard, as
some are downright illegal now!

Imagine if I told him to go shovel driveways without charging!! I'd be
crucified for not ensuring he got paid $15.20/hour! (at 12 years old, yet)

I'd go out shoveling, if I were physically able to still!

Then the city union would attack me for undercutting their hourly raste of
$38.40 or something!  I'd fight them on the basis of I ain't doing THEIR job
(strictly on city properties)

The caretaker in my townhouse complex pays minimum wage to tenants who can &
want to shovel. . .

Absolutely zero takers this year!

In the big city bnext doorm, when I lived in an apartment complex, the same
deal existed & only one person, a guy over 70, did the shoveling every time it
snowed (he didn't mind -- more money in his pocket); I'd be the same, were it
possible, into my nineties!

His parents lived in the '30s.  My dad's am early Boomer, but from a
conservative/traditional background (children remain silent unless addressed,
when told to jump, you only ask "how high?" AFTER your feet have left the
ground, etc.); suited me fine; I'm in positino to evaluate the lessons as they
fit into the world I'm in, & only foster forward those that will work best. . .

I'm just thankful I have good lessons to consider; so many now never had them,
& it's no wonder they're as they are. Spoiled ne'er-do-wells!

I dn't blame tjhem; they do the best with what they have, as I was taught to
do, they just don't have as much to grow from. I feel bad, more than mad. . .

I rant, yes, but thst's more for humour effect than actual anger. . .

I'm not the old king commanding the tide to stop. I'm the old commoner tying
scrounged lumber together into a basic raft.

Your friend,

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Cyberpope, Bishop of ROM
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