Why do Gen Z n Y say boomers had it easier?

[FishNGrits]

I don't know what you do for work, but from the name calling and defensive stance you posting with, it sounds hella more stressful than my gig.

Nah your just objectively wrong and part of the reason people look down on blue collar work. It ain’t the 1980’s no more, job foreman’s take they work home and be answer emails after hours especially on the residential side. Shyt them cats got they phone on 24/7 driving all over fixing problems just for a cat like you is shocked by the bill since you think the work is so much easier.

 

[Gritsngravy]

Because they lived in an era where the US government actually cared about growing the middle class.

So the government enacted policies to benefit them and help them reach middle class.

Right now the US government can’t even stop the hemorrhaging of the current middle class.

Quiet as it’s keep the gov is sacrificing the economy and peoples money at this very moment for reasons

 

[RaspberryFitted]

@africngiant @RaspberryFitted @ISO @Kenny West @cartierhoe yall friends be talkin bout Boomers?

no lol

 

[Gritsngravy]

Economic conditions for Black Americans haven’t changed since slavery times

We was the same in the “Roaring 20s” during the “Great Depression” “Great Recession” and everything in between

That’s white folks problems

We get by how we get by regardless

But I’d much rather live in a time when I didn’t have to worry about going to war for years at a time for most of my adult life, back when war was war and you had to look the people you killed in the eyes.

There isn’t a human alive today that could hold a candle to those folks in their prime.

I caught the tail end of it and I know how great they were

You could’ve been in a war if you wanted too

 

[B86]

Hell no. I'd kill for a soft cushy office job. Anyone who whines about working a corporate job is a p*ssy

From what you said, you don’t currently work in an office so are you sure you’d want to be at a computer all day doing mentally tasking tasks?

I partner with a law firm and when you’re playing with millions of dollars of other people’s money everyday with all kinds of risk, liability, potential lawsuits with one wrong date or signature, it’s a different type of stress.

When I was younger working at UPS, FedEx Home Depot, etc, it wasn’t hard but it was like being a brain dead robot just going with the same motions over and over. If I could work in a warehouse and get paid what I get paid, I’d do it in a heartbeat.

And notice, I’m telling you I have years and years of experience in both worlds

 

[Sleepy Floyd]

If you haven't worked both sides youll never understand.

That's like all the nikkas that way a baddie...that shyt look like it's great...till you get you one.

Nah fukk that. In physical labor jobs you still have to deal with mental stress as well. In cushy office jobs you don't have the physical burden placed on you.

That office shyt a cake walk.

 

[NegaDuck]

Nah your just objectively wrong and part of the reason people look down on blue collar work. It ain’t the 1980’s no more, job foreman’s take they work home and be answer emails after hours especially on the residential side. Shyt them cats got they phone on 24/7 driving all over fixing problems just for a cat like you is shocked by the bill since you think the work is so much easier.

Ohhh I see where your anger is coming from.

No one said blue collar is easier (at least not me)

I said, and let me make sure I indicate that FOR ME, white collar work has me more exhausted thamy previous job working at a wearhouse. That was my literal post.

I can't be objectively wrong on my own opinion about my own experience.

But I'ma let you cook.

 

[Dave24]

Be able to support a wife, a mistress, a girlfriend, and 6 kids off working at a hardware store in 1969 and think your life is hard brehs

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[Wild self]

I wouldn't say its easier. i can probably work as an accountant well into my 70s if i wanted. Whereas i doubt i could do physical labor that late in life.

But labor is far less stressful, once you clock out and leave the workplace, you are free of any work related anxiety or pressure.

No 24 hour workathons trying to reach a deadline. nobody calling you in the middle of night with questions or an impromptu meeting. No concerns about meeting forecasted profit margins etc etc. just go to work, put in your 8 hours and you done. but mental work can be dark cloud hovering over you 24/7.

Plus if i decide i don't wanna work their anymore i have consider the implications of quitting, will i be able to find another job with the same benefits, are the systems in the next job going to be similar enough were i would know what im doing? i might get black balled out the industry altogether if I'm in high visibility company as a high level exec and i burn that bridge.

labor i can quict without notice and find a new labor position within a week.

Get a Federal government job. None of them 24 hour marathons in the public,sector.

 

[humminbird]

@PAWG Life

@humminbird

@Realm-Breaker

he's right lol

 

[Dave24]

Get a Federal government job. None of them 24 hour marathons in the public,sector.

@Wild self what are the best federal government jobs to get?

 

[kingofnyc]

as long as they leave Gen X outta this

 

[IIVI]

"The clock-in/clock-out issue and no more stress" argument though is kinda subjective.

There were days on the shipping yard I was dreading the next day because x-customer was dropping off and they're always a pain and/or dangerous to unload/load.

shyt don't get from point A to point B with a wave of the hand.



Some of these are hilarious, but some of those situations are highly stressful and need a degree of problem solving.
A lot of people who've only worked desk jobs got no idea about how much problem solving occurs at these jobs with sometimes millions of dollars of inventory sitting on a forklift that can additionally hurt somebody if they were dropped.

Additionally, if you mess up - guess who's cleaning all that up?

Not to mention people making the job more difficult: you see how they're maneuvering through a parking lot with cars?
You see how in that very first video somebody is asked to move bars right next to a Range Rover?

Imagine now some of those cars are executives' cars and they're driving all through the parking lot and around you while you're operating a forklift.

Many manual labor jobs there's a fear of losing your life or getting injured badly that people at a desk don't have to stress over and something I'm glad I no longer have to deal with and I just get to stare at code, debug some type errors at compilation time and learn about code architecture (which I can all put on a resume).

 

[duncanthetall]

As an electrician I find it amusing that so many folks genuinely don’t know a single fukking thing about trades or the work involved. This thread is hilarious

 

[UpNext]

Nah fukk that. In physical labor jobs you still have to deal with mental stress as well. In cushy office jobs you don't have the physical burden placed on you.

That office shyt a cake walk.

Idk about you, but physical work helps me deal with mental stress. I have a pull up bar in my office. When I got alot going on in my head and it gets to the point where I can't focus on the problem I'm solving, I HAVE to go to the pull up bar and/or do something physical (go for a run, do some pushups, hit the speed/punching bag, anything physical really) to clear my head and have a clear enough mind to continue working on the problem I'm working on. Maybe it's just me tho.

When I was working physical labor jobs, all I had to do was go through the motions and focus on my motions, that made it really easy for me to drown out the mental stuff. When I have to think about abstract concepts and solve those issues especially if it's in an area I've never seen before, it just amplifies the mental stress, like, alot.