Who I Like.

The unemployed young adults who have left the "Occupy" protests to get real about their futures, taking temp jobs at Targets, WalMarts and other big stores that hire during the holidays to stock shelves, sometimes at night.

When you have to shift for yourself, you do what you have to do.

This is why, pretty much, I think it's futile for the well-to-do to advise, well meaningly of course, those "beneath" them on how to compete in today's career marketplace.

Find the Work.
Get Hired.
Put the Paychecks in the Bank.
Hug Your Mother, and Your Dad too.
They Want You Working, Kids -- get up in the morning and do ... something. First, earn your gas money. Then, your food money. Then, your rent.

Little by little ... you're out the door, and fending for yourself.
They'll tell you -- the well to do with no worries -- that it can't be done.
Don't you believe them.

Get a job. Any job. Look at your name, for a long time, on that check -- money you've earned. Not the unemployment check. Not the food stamp card. Not something written out, perhaps, from the parents' account (unless it's your birthday).

The game is fixed, pretty much, right now: pitting the older against the young. You work, you pay into the game. The Boomer demographics ... how can you fight that, you ask? Just remember -- they're peaking now, if they haven't already.

The more you know, the more skills you have at your disposal, the more you've observed and picked up at each and every job you've held over the years ... all the more independence to you, young worker.

So while protests can be fun, it's time to pack up the tents and find whatever job you can. Merry Christmas, and happy hunting.

Signed,
One Who Worked Nights, as needed, to pay the bills.