Empowering The Young To Dig Their Own Graves?

nospam@example.com (Gareth) — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:06:47 -0700

Several recent news reports have painted a gloomy picture for younger Australians. Apparently many of them are facing credit repayment difficulties and most will face further stress from increased rents as they are unable to afford to purchase their own homes.

Considering their employability in a 'young image' world and the consequent incomes they enjoy that revelation is astounding.

A fact of life is that every generation considers the next one to be lazier, more spoilt and less responsible than their own. Baby-boomers faced those criticisms from their own parents. Those parents themselves received the same admonishment from their elders and so forth.

There is no doubt that perception failures account for a great deal of that criticism, since while an apparent slide seems real to older generations the reality is that societies and economies charge forth irrespective of the altered values and behaviours of their younger members.

I don't like to harp on a hackneyed theme but there is another aspect to those generation variances that is not often publicly aired, but which recent developments have highlighted to me personally.
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Give Yourself A Serve

nospam@example.com (Gareth) — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:12:56 -0700

"If you want your petrol spilling, spill it yourself". Well, perhaps it's not quite like that. But in 1971 I worked (briefly) as a teenage driveway attendant in the last filling station in Adelaide that didn't have automatic cut-off pumps.

I started work on a Monday morning and was shown how to listen for the increasing pitch in sound as the filler-tube filled like a bottle. It didn't seem too hard. The trick was just to let go of the trigger in time. Unfortunately, some cars tended to 'blow back' if they were filled too quickly. Some of their owners were inclined to 'blow off' when that happened.
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Empowering The Young To Dig Their Own Graves?

Give Yourself A Serve