Agreed, I'm 33 and am interviewing for a fixed income analyst job next week... my wife who religiously watches teen mom and jersey shore and real housewives, yadayada doesn't have a clue that the real world is coming apart at the seams (sadly "real world whatever city" on the must view list). Even worse thing is, she works with "distressed mothers" aka degenerate young moms who for the most part only care where their next beer comes from while their kids rot in foster care. The kicker is that these girls all think they have a chance to be the next "teen mom" or "16 and pregnant" Fuck I hate MTV, truly indicative of how disjointed our generation is today. I guarantee not one of my relatives in their 30's would have spit at this garbage. How far our society as a whole has sunk is unbelievable.
"Go out and date"? Dating is by and large a thing of the past. this is a fact. The "real thing" isn't that great anymore. Hasn't been for about 25 years when most became "strong and independent". No wonder most guys are engaged in digital bliss...much easier and less emotionally risky than dealing with some ball-busting amazon. Getting married is turning into one of the biggest mistakes one can make these days. This isn't the 1950s... not by a long shot.
The young have always taken out their frustrations on the old - nothing new there. Flower power and drugs from the 1970s didn't help. The Vietnam war was a huge factor
The young just need direction and purpose - hopefully not the sort of crap as dished out by Bin Laden. The world can be a great place and full of interest. Just don't let the haters turn you into a loser/druggie etc because they will if you let them into your life !
No kidding, especially when so much communication is now done like we are doing right now at this moment. Language is surely changing. No time, gotta chk mkt, mst go The Jews had the right idea. Who the hll needs a vowel? Save time, save paper save ink.
Education is priceless. A diploma is a $100,000 sheet of paper. Degrees meant something before the internet. Information that is already free (+ the cost of an internet connection) should not cost $100k; having a degree only increases your chances of employment, and you're coming out of college with a mortgage without the house basically. Destined for wage-slavery to pay off those loans. If you gave me a syllabus, a practice final, and Google I could pass just about any class in about a month. Any person on this site could probably do the same, because I doubt anyone here is not self-motivated enough to teach themselves knowledge, and probably at an accelerated rate than the average student. Universities aren't there to teach you anything; they're businesses with the sole purpose of bringing in students for money. How is watching my professor at home different from sitting in a classroom with 250 other people? We're stuck in brick & mortar schooling when we have the capability for interactive digital learning. Eventually someone will figure out how to attract the brightest minds in their fields and consolidate them into an online university. Low overhead cost plus the ability to reach millions of (paying) students would be win/win. Cheap education, coming from the leading thinkers, for a fraction of the cost, straight into your home. Go to your local lab for hands-on work, the rest of the time just stream education at your leisure 24/7. Can't tell you how many friends worked as servers gaining 0 technical experience, graduated, and are still waiting tables trying to pay back loans while they keep looking for that "dream job" they went to school for. I'm a microbiology undergrad who didn't know shit about trading, so I taught myself online. I sold my mutual funds and began trading to help pay for school, and am now having serious thoughts about why I'm going to school in the first place. If I could support myself as a personal trainer while trading for additional income why am I sinking $100k, plus loan interest, plus lost wages from not working, into a sheet of paper I probably won't use? Every day in the market is exciting and I'm always learning something new through research or plain old mistakes. I can't say the same about school, which is pretty sad because last time I checked that's what school was supposed to be about.
Eventually someone will figure out how to attract the brightest minds in their fields and consolidate them into an online university. ----------------------- There already is someone doing this. Bill Gates' favorite teacher http://money.cnn.com/2010/08/23/technology/sal_khan_academy.fortune/index.htm