Just something I've been thinking about now that I'm 40. A complete lack of leadership and mentoring from the boomers.
Parents were just focused on academic success and getting me off to college. Never learned to use tools, tend to plants and animals, do sports or hunt.
In my career, I was just given lots of responsibility and risk. No mentoring or leadership. No actual control to go along with the responsibility.
Was it like this for anyone else? Now that I'm middle aged and see the problem, I'm trying to be different for the younger generation.
I completely agree... Even my boss and his son who is technically the next generation... He just wanted them to go to college... Even if they maybe don't do anything useful with it. They've been programmed that it's a good idea. Fortunately, my husband's dad taught him to do a lot and then he's taught himself to do anything else. I also have been a woman who wasn't taught anything, but learned it and liked to do things myself. No one taught me how to cook or bake, but I do it and find great recipes. Enough that other women ask for them. I tweak recipes once I have them to what we like. I've also learned a lot of crafts. I started making my own bar soap. I help my husband with our home projects. We don't pay anyone to come into our home and fix anything or install anything. I'm glad that we know better today. We just had our first son in November, and he would only go to college if he has a real desire for a good subject...and we'd do so warily. Otherwise we'd rather him learn skills and start a business of his own. That is the better, more successful route. We know many older men in our neighborhood who have their own businesses who were very successful. It's always better than working for someone else.
On one hand, I think that having to learn everything for ourselves has made millenials much less worried about uncertain times because we know we van figure things out.
On the other, I wonder just how much knowledge we've lost due to pointless hoarding.
Late boomer here (born in '62). It was much the same with the late Boomers, the older ones made damn sure to squash competition. There's a few of us out there that mentor the next generation, but we're few and far between. The Beatles wrote a song that sums up most of the boomers "I me me mine". Personally, I see your generation as being much smarter than the boomers and I think you'll be just fine. I've had a multifaceted approach to raising my kids and grandkids. I think an education is great because it lets you see who is lying to you. I also spend time teaching them techniques using my tools, gardening and general maintenance work around the house. I don't think the economy will collapse, but eventually it will and the family that stopped teaching the basics of survival will fall out of existence. I teach my family to have a fall back plan, but push forward as if everything will be ok.
I think this is the most accurate, the older boomers had kinda a selfish, competitive, and in many cases what we would describe as a "pharo complex" at work.
The ones I worked with used to "legacy build" by exclusively NOT training others, to maintain their need around the workplace.
They also stayed way to long in their jobs and tried to make sure nobody had it better than them.
As my boss said when I started, "a six figure salary and the corner office was the goal when I started (70's) and it still is" (until today, w/ inflation 🥴) -> they made sure salaries for younger workers were never adjusted for inflation, because it made them bitter.
You don't know how accurate that is. I grew up with them and I damn well know how they are. I also believe that a very small percentage of each generation actually understands what is going on around them
Boomers are a very selfish and entitled generation- perhaps the worst in history. They inherited the wealthiest empire in human history and yet somehow managed to saddle their children with incomprehensible debt all the while refusing to leave the workforce for an extra decade or two thus resulting in no transition of power or opportunity to establish generational leadership.
Not to mention offshoring the entire productive capacity of the country just to squeeze out a few more dividends.
Not to mention endless foreign intervention in unnecessary conflicts which have left us in adversarial relationships with some of our strongest former allies.
And so on.
I'm not sure this is "all their fault" but they were in power when it happened so in some way they caused it.
Inheritance in nature aka succession implies increase of child through decrease of adult. Few suggest tradable inheritance outside of self to tempt many to seek from another ones decrease , while ignoring to increase self.
Nature impresses (inception towards death) expressions (life) within...ignoring this represses ones expression within self, while permitting others to suppress from outside.
Ones consent to hold onto a suggestion implies the squeeze upon self, while reasoning about suggested implies the squeezing of each other among many...for the benefit of few.
Can't be mad at them staying in the workforce when people will also complain if they retire too early and are a burden on social security.
Yes they are a weaker, more liberal generation than their parents, but sour grapes is a waste of time. Especially when this current generation are the weakest faggots yet.
That makes them even fucking worse, dude. They inherited the best economy in human history and couldn't manage to save a fucking dime for their retirement... while also voting to rob the social security fund.
From the moment of inception to the moment of death...the living heart works in response to the force of nature. It's the ignorant mind that can be tempted to join a "workforce", which establishes a conflict of reason...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-cjjzNbg70
I stopped working for my Dad when I realized he was only ever using me to save on taxes.
I'd been doing jobs for him since I was twelve, but he never trained me on anything. I was told to do something (usually clean up) and yelled at if it wasn't done correctly. I figured that this was just how work was (and, yeah, pretty much).
It came to a head when he outright refused to train me. I was working part time for a contracting business he had, prepping the work area for the main machine and feeding it, while he ran it and did the finishing. He was starting to feel his age and had some medical incidents that made it hard to work so I offered to learn the rest of the job so I could take an assistent and do them without him, and he could focus on advertising and paperwork. First he told me he didn't want to risk messing up a customer job, and fair enough. But then we had an opportunity to do a job on his own property, so I asked him and he just says "I'm going to do it (the job)".
I realized he never had any intention of training (or raising) me to become as competent as himself, that he was actually jealous of me and saw my success as a threat to his position.
After that I said fuck it, I'll find someone else to work for who actually wants me to succeed (which I have, multiple times) and never worked for him after that.
Edit: On the actual mentors, I didn't meet them until my mid thirties, in trades. I never saw anything like mentorship in STEM.
Usually I would only work for a company for a year or so just to get it on my resume and find a place paying better. When I started at this company, I had gotten my first raise (12%) in the first four months. I was specifically chosen to work with the pro crew; the one that would be tapped for particularily difficult or sensitive jobs and the crew chief was my favourite boss ever. He'd been doing the job for decades and knew it inside and out. He had all sorts of tricks and tips but, more importantly, an attitude towards work: "it takes as long as it takes, but we're a premium company; it has to work, and it has to look good". He never cut corners to get out early, always made sure to leave sites (read: the customer's homes) in mint condition, and encouraged us to answer any questions the customers had, even if it meant taking a bit longer.
The company thrived and I worked there five times longer than any other place I'd worked. Until the boss sold and it went under new management.
Sounds like my boomer Mom. Hated her kids once they were more successful than her at anything in life.
Very similar situation. I provide excessive guidance and mentorship to younger generation (new employees) but I don't think they appreciate it or understand the value of having a mentor or someone to lead the way.
Interesting, I was raised on tools, just took up crops and animal husbandry three years ago, and have been doing 2a sports and combat sports since a child. I'm not from a blue collar family, just conservative and like to "DIY". Lots to learn from YT. Gun stuff is as simple as getting started. Same with tools. Anyone can learn oil, brake pads/fluid, and basic auto care on YT. Same for home improvement, furniture making, construction, concrete, welding, wood work. Just pick something and decide to DIY it after research. You're never too late to start. I relate better to boomers because I have the mindset of a WW2 male thanks to grandpa. Maybe that made a huge difference but I can tell you based old boomers are looking for young people to teach to any millennial willing to learn.
Yeah I do all that stuff now. I'm building my own house, outside is done, working on finishing the inside. Passed the electrical inspection on 1st try. Also do welding and woodworking projects.
The point is I had to learn it all as an adult myself. No leaders or mentors showing any of it to me as a kid. And trust me, it's a lot harder this way. There's been sooo many times where I have made mistakes, and had to painfully fix them later.
I'm a parent and I've already taught my kindergartener more hands on stuff than I learned over my entire childhood.
GenX here, my entire generation is a meme about being abandoned and left to figure it all out on our own.
Nobody "mentored" X. Perform or get kicked out. Thrown into the fire: survive or die. I doubt it was much different for boomers, probably tougher.
Special people, groomed for special jobs, did get mentoring, before #metoo and all the woke shit and before EVERYTHING became about cost cutting (in the past 16 years since the GFC), but only if you were the top 0.00001% and you were chosen for the top positions to be groomed.
Find a group of more capable peers, make yourself valuable and learn from those who have the scars (learn from their mistakes and from their learnings). Be the worst among the equals.
That's all there is to it.
And the self-empowered, self-directed and independent you learn how to be, the more you can actually help others and be service to others, in addition to yourself.
BTW, where's the conspiracy?
God helps those who help themselves. How much more so in those who help others.
a) Followers complete a leader; lack/loss completes growth...following a leader prevents growth (life) within loss (inception towards death).
b) Before a ship can be led...it balances as solid (life) within fluid (inception towards death). Following another ship establishes an imbalance between giving way vs standing on.
Navigation itself is only an issue within an artificial waterway. Why? Because there's only one way (inception towards death) for each vessel (life) within nature.
No life is like: "Omg, I'm lost, where's death?"...
A lot of it has to do with the fallacy that you know what's going on based on understanding of difference between generations. Boomers, millennials, it's all totally smoke and mirrors, holding weak truths amplified by our enemy, MSM.
If you find yourself thinking that you understand people in their 60s, who youve never met, then you're likely in a psy op.
What do you think contributes to this lack of leadership you precieve? Rhetorical, but it doesn't help that we voluntarily separate ourselves from other generations and prevent knowledge transfer, prevent leadership opportunity.