For every young working unskilled beaner there is a young American without a job opportunity.
I started working at 14 too, but just durng vacations and summer breaks.
I started working at 14 too, but just during vacations and summer breaks.
Nothing wrong at all with that. Its not the amount of hours at that age its about learning the responsibility and that if you want something, you have to WORK for it. In my own case I didn't have much of a choice. I come from a poor family and a bunch of workaholics. If I didn't get my ass out there my family would have thought something was wrong with me.
As for taking of U.S jobs. NO fucking beaner ought to get ANYTHING in this Country for jumping the border but then, This isn't really a Country anymore is it?
I'm really thankful I had a job as a kid. I worked for my Dad - a Carpenter/Contractor, and we were pretty poor too, my folks started with nothing. I learned valuable skills, strong work ethic, developed self reliance/confidenceand and got to spend productive time with my father, who later died at age 50. When the workday ended, home to dinner then out to tend the garden. Always something that needed to be done.
I hear you. My situation was similar. My dad died at 53 when I was 19. No education. Depression era baby, had 7/8 of his family wiped out in the course of about 3 hrs so for me it was my older brother I worked for. He has 8 yrs on me. He went into the wrench twisting business at 22 so I was cheap and easy to be had help lol. No complaints. I learned how to be a mechanic from him, Body work, weld, fabricate etc. Construction, wiring, plumbing. I've been self sufficient all my life. Had no choice. Thankfully I still have my brother in my life. He's still working at 68 but that's how we are. I joked to him that we should end up buried side by side and on his Headstone it should say "Sorry, not here, working" and on mine it should just say "Yeah , me too". Neither of us will ever likely "retire" in the sense of sitting in front of the TeeBee and doing nothing all day. Thats my Father in Law. I feel that has to be the biggest waste of "retirement" time ever. But to each his own. suppose.
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