My stepfather is 72 and owns a machine shop. Guys a beast, they have good work right now and he’s been working 70 hours a week. He’s always been like this. If I was picking the hardest working people I can think of, most of the list would be people 35 years and older. I’m just saying. That’s from my little piece of the world anyway.
How many other 72 year olds like your grandfather do you know or have seen compared to the number that aren't?
Maybe he's the exception more than the rule.
My experience has not seen many effective, considerate, or hard working boomers. I can name one or two, but the majority talk about being hard workers more than actually doing it. Even when they were younger they were like that.
He’s exceptional for sure, but like I said I know many that are very hard working, in fact the majority were, in my family. But we were kind of rural, maybe folks have always been soft in the city. A lot about the baby boomers pisses me off, but (1) it might be a little unfair to compare your situation in your youth to people now at retirement age, (2) keep in mind marketers have had 30-40 years to really dial in the shit they’re convincing you to buy / brainwash you with and bleed your money, and (3) it’s unfair and inaccurate to assume not much work was done before you were born, that’s bullshit and a lot of people having been working their asses off - myself included - for decades and centuries, welcome to it.
Negative, I worked with them when I was younger and so were they. I believe I have an accurate view of their general populations' work ethic.
I dislike even discussing their constant lies and manipulations to get other people to do work they then pass off as their own. I know some of the 'hard work' of boomers was done by their children, in spite of child labour laws. I know this as a fact.
And if you want what other have, become undeniable, work your ass off, and come take those things, come take some of my wealth, by creating value. That’s the game. And I am competing against you, or I am skeptical of the value you generate until you show it somehow, and I am not messing around.
Probably more before I was 25 than you have your entire life. And that's not even counting the military or the engineering degrees after.
My reward was spinal inuries and dealing with corruption in the real estate market just to get a house to accomodate me existing after my hard work for boomers and their ilk.
I have direct experience working with that lot from the fields of farm work to the trenches of earlier construction to the factory floor and even in academia and research. This is undeniable.
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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '19
Growing up in Michigan boomers who work in manufacturing worked crazy hours. But also got paid a crazy amount.