State of the Union - Employment

[KillerFord1977]

My kids are 19 and 16.
They are required to work summers when not in school.
My wife and I as parents can provide for them quite well and provide for them just about anything they want. They both have cars, etc..
They will work to learn what hard work is and have some pride to pay for going out with friends, savings for future, etc.
Not an option that my wife and I told them years ago.
My daughter found purpose and pride working for a vets office and now studies AG/vet science in college.
I think it has shown my son that Wal-mart is not for him and he wants to find a different career path when he goes off to college.
Work opens eyes to paths for the future. Whether good or bad it teaches people about themselves

 

[Keystone19250]

My kids are 19 and 16.
They are required to work summers when not in school.
My wife and I as parents can provide for them quite well and provide for them just about anything they want. They both have cars, etc..
They will work to learn what hard work is and have some pride to pay for going out with friends, savings for future, etc.
Not an option that my wife and I told them years ago.
My daughter found purpose and pride working for a vets office and now studies AG/vet science in college.
I think it has shown my son that Wal-mart is not for him and he wants to find a different career path when he goes off to college.
Work opens eyes to paths for the future. Whether good or bad it teaches people about themselves

Outstanding.

The 6 year old boy my wife and I adopted through the foster care system was a tough challenge during his growing up years……..
Struggled in school……..
Rebellious at home……..
Never stayed at one job longer than a month…….
Luckily never in trouble with Law enforcement.

What straightened him out?
Military service. He is now in the
Air Force, a weapons specialist and just became a Sargent for his unit.

 

[Bassbob]

My kids are 19 and 16.
They are required to work summers when not in school.
My wife and I as parents can provide for them quite well and provide for them just about anything they want. They both have cars, etc..
They will work to learn what hard work is and have some pride to pay for going out with friends, savings for future, etc.
Not an option that my wife and I told them years ago.
My daughter found purpose and pride working for a vets office and now studies AG/vet science in college.
I think it has shown my son that Wal-mart is not for him and he wants to find a different career path when he goes off to college.
Work opens eyes to paths for the future. Whether good or bad it teaches people about themselves

When my daughter was growing up she was not a kid who had to have all the crap other kids had. certain shoes or clothes or gadgets or whatever. She was happy enough with stuff her and her mom got from thrift stores or wherever. She never asked for anything. When we went to Europe when she was about 10 we left her here with her grandmother, but promised to take her when we went back. So for 5+ years she saved all her money and when we went back, around the time of her 16th birthday she had more money to spend on the trip than we did. Now I did do some side jobs to get her little luxuries. An iPod back then was about $400. I got her a go-kart, gave her a bass guitar, made sure she had nice flutes for band class, etc. Raising her was cheap. When she was 17 her boyfriend, who was a nice kid in a bad home situation, came to live with us. She made him go back to school ( the high school let him come and do night classes so he could work during the day, and he graduated). After about a year of this and them having to live under her mother's rules she decided to move out. Before her 18th birthday she had her own apartment and with one, two week long exception after her and her boyfriend ( then husband) split up she has never lived under our roof since.

Today she is 31, has a nice job where she is valued and paid well and owns her own house outright. The only help I ever gave her was to co-sign a car loan and due to her lack of credit, I bought the house she lives in and she paid me for it. Never missed a payment on the car or the house. She has more in savings than I do.


Her work ethic and responsible nature is not something I can take credit for however. It was something inherent to her. She had it figured out from a very young age. She did not "Have it made" growing up. Lots of adversity. Married young, lost a child which ended her marriage and persevered completely of her own accord. I am extremely proud of her.

 

[Old_Me]

When my daughter was growing up she was not a kid who had to have all the crap other kids had. certain shoes or clothes or gadgets or whatever. She was happy enough with stuff her and her mom got from thrift stores or wherever. She never asked for anything. When we went to Europe when she was about 10 we left her here with her grandmother, but promised to take her when we went back. So for 5+ years she saved all her money and when we went back, around the time of her 16th birthday she had more money to spend on the trip than we did. Now I did do some side jobs to get her little luxuries. An iPod back then was about $400. I got her a go-kart, gave her a bass guitar, made sure she had nice flutes for band class, etc. Raising her was cheap. When she was 17 her boyfriend, who was a nice kid in a bad home situation, came to live with us. She made him go back to school ( the high school let him come and do night classes so he could work during the day, and he graduated). After about a year of this and them having to live under her mother's rules she decided to move out. Before her 18th birthday she had her own apartment and with one, two week long exception after her and her boyfriend ( then husband) split up she has never lived under our roof since.

Today she is 31, has a nice job where she is valued and paid well and owns her own house outright. The only help I ever gave her was to co-sign a car loan and due to her lack of credit, I bought the house she lives in and she paid me for it. Never missed a payment on the car or the house. She has more in savings than I do.


Her work ethic and responsible nature is not something I can take credit for however. It was something inherent to her. She had it figured out from a very young age. She did not "Have it made" growing up. Lots of adversity. Married young, lost a child which ended her marriage and persevered completely of her own accord. I am extremely proud of her.

good for her..!!

 

[HayesGreener]

When my daughter was growing up she was not a kid who had to have all the crap other kids had. certain shoes or clothes or gadgets or whatever. She was happy enough with stuff her and her mom got from thrift stores or wherever. She never asked for anything. When we went to Europe when she was about 10 we left her here with her grandmother, but promised to take her when we went back. So for 5+ years she saved all her money and when we went back, around the time of her 16th birthday she had more money to spend on the trip than we did. Now I did do some side jobs to get her little luxuries. An iPod back then was about $400. I got her a go-kart, gave her a bass guitar, made sure she had nice flutes for band class, etc. Raising her was cheap. When she was 17 her boyfriend, who was a nice kid in a bad home situation, came to live with us. She made him go back to school ( the high school let him come and do night classes so he could work during the day, and he graduated). After about a year of this and them having to live under her mother's rules she decided to move out. Before her 18th birthday she had her own apartment and with one, two week long exception after her and her boyfriend ( then husband) split up she has never lived under our roof since.

Today she is 31, has a nice job where she is valued and paid well and owns her own house outright. The only help I ever gave her was to co-sign a car loan and due to her lack of credit, I bought the house she lives in and she paid me for it. Never missed a payment on the car or the house. She has more in savings than I do.


Her work ethic and responsible nature is not something I can take credit for however. It was something inherent to her. She had it figured out from a very young age. She did not "Have it made" growing up. Lots of adversity. Married young, lost a child which ended her marriage and persevered completely of her own accord. I am extremely proud of her.

Our children are usually a reflection of their parents. We had 4, the oldest now 47, the youngest 38. They were all home for Thanksgiving. As always I am often surprised at how as adults they embraced the lessons and examples we tried to impart when they were little. I didn't think they were paying attention. My wife always got them out of the house when I was working on plumbing but they somehow learned those words anyway.