Quote Originally Posted by Shagaroo
When I was 18, summer time before going off to school, I worked for a moving company. I was the grunt doing the hardest work because I was new. Sitting with the gear shift up my ass because I wasn't good enough for a seat in the cab, 16 hour days. I made $7.50/hr starting and was up to $8.50/hr after a month probabtion period. If I wasn't going off to school I could have been up to $9.50/hr after 6 months. Today, same company, all the grunt crews are illegals, $3.50/hr off the books and that's all the time, not for a probationary month. The drivers are legals or Americans and that's it. It's not that people think they are too good for a job, it's they can't live off what they will get paid because illegals work for nothing and live 20 to a house and do nothing but drink in the yard or work. There is no logical argument that makes it ok.

My 15 yr. old son complains about needed money. I give my kid my old lawnmower, which (after being fixed up by me so he could use it) worked perfectly well. He looks at me like I'm crazy and says, "never mind..." He could have easily charged $20-30 per lawn in my neighborhood and cut 5 - 6 lawns within a few blocks of my house each week. $100-180 per week for about 10-12 hours does not equate to $3.50/hr. While he couldn't necessarily live on that wage, he certainly could have used the money. But he'd rather sit watching TV... And he's not the only one I see like that...

When I first moved into my neighborhood about 20 yrs ago or so I used to have kids (multiple) at my door weekly asking if I wanted them to cut my lawn. It's now been at least 10 years since I've had one stop by... And I've NEVER had anyone stop by asking to shovel my driveway after a snow storm - I'd GLADLY pay them $30.00 to do that, for an hours worth of work...

Nope - in my experience (limited as it is), todays youth expects to make the big bucks without the necessary sweat...