Originally Posted by
rickair7777
It's not the legacy schedules as much as the pain to get there... word got out over the last couple decades and scared a lot of folks away.
In truth, it's also a generational issue... with a little effort and dues paying, you can get an excellent life-time job by age 30 with pay and schedules which are not really available in any other career field at that age. Have good QOL and make many millions, or FIRE by age 45-ish, your choice.
But many youth don't like the drug-free aspect, and they also don't like the fact that you have to do work sometimes, and you can't always call out when you don't feel like working. For some it's just easier to hang out and game in Mom's basement, work when you want to, and get a new low-end job every time they fire you for too many no-shows.
I mostly disagree.. this mom's basement just want to smoke ganja all day is an every generation ploy to look down the nose at the younger generations. Same was said from the golden gen to the boomers and then to the gen X's and Millennials. The problem has mostly been the higher cost to do anything without wages keeping up until very recently. Housing costs, food costs, education costs all have been passed on to the next generation by those in power that had already made it and pretended they had it much worse. But in reality you have a preversion of capitalism. And don't take that as a sign I support any other economic system... I don't, not one bit. But this **** has gotten out of hand. Had a lot of us had not had military to flip the bill how much worse would this current state of the industry be right now.
It's also a different world. You can make more money than you know what to do with if you generate a popular youtube or twitch channel. Just ask your neightbors 16 year old daughter how much she pulls down just showing her feet on OnlyFans.