Youth of today have no staying power,snow flake genaration, the job is what you make it
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TBH, the 25-35 year olds Ive had either working for me, or potentially looking for a job, have been very un-inspiring in their outlook…no charisma, no ambition and no real idea about what they actually want to do in life 
Everybody seems to want 9-5 and do as little as possible, which just ain`t going to happen in this industry, unless you want to be paid a pittance and/or worked to death on 3663 type work 
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I’ve worked with loads of people in that age group over the last few years, most of them have had plenty of drive, ambition, charisma, and they’ll work the hours needed to get the job done, but they’re not truck drivers, so maybe the problem is with the haulage industry being so unattractive it only gets those who can’t find anything else and the one or 2 who are genuinely interested in driving trucks.
Why would any young person with drive and ambition want to drive trucks in the present Haulage Industry, sorry I mean Logistics sector, most of us older drivers were attracted by the prospect of travel to far flung places and being left alone to do the job, not delivering to yet another soulless RDC, trying to choose between the delights of parking in some pot-holed service station smelling of ■■■■■ or some layby or industrial area without even the basic facilities or trying to get back home in 15 hours on our overcrowded road network and having every part of your day micro-managed by a pointy shoed manager.
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I remember similar things being said about me when I first started work, it was a Cash and Carry Warehouse, so nothing special, I hated the job, which is probably why I didn’t seem keen on the work, but having left school in the middle of a recession it was all I could get.
As for what I do yes perhaps it is considered a more desirable a job, but that was my point, haulage isn’t desirable, when people had the chance to go to far flung places, it was attractive to a certain type of person, those with a bit of adventure in their soul and a desire not to have management watching their every move, for that they would put up with the long hours and other hardships. But now the job has changed and it doesn’t interest those people who wanted adventure and freedom, but the hours and conditions haven’t changed to attract people looking for a normal 9-5 job.
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I never wanted a 9-5 job, tried it a few times and hated it. I’m glad to say, I enjoy my job. Next time you’re in traffic, look around you at the middle-management types in their new cars that aren’t actually theirs, desperately trying to get to the next bit of traffic, so they can rush home to sit in front of their laptop for a few hours, in a boring house in a boring dormitory town with equally boring neighbours who do exactly the same thing. The shock when Mr Jones buys his Mrs a new SUV can only cause Mr Smith to respond by either becoming enraged or responding in kind, thus the cycle of envy, greed, and misery continues.
When I had my own business, I had lots of money and a bird who was a model in her spare time. When the business went, inevitably, so did she. A mutual friend sent me a link to her faceache account a few months ago, after I bumped into him after about 20 years. There she was, still exceptionally good looking, but ■■■■ me, I wouldn’t want to be married to her. Looking through her posts, she has her (wealthy but drippy) husband working in his family’s business day and night, to keep her in Range Rovers and whatever mental doomed-to-fail “business” idea she’s come up with this month. A more vacuous, self-centered huppelkut, you would be hard pushed to meet. As a commentator in The Telegraph succinctly put it: “once 20s are gone and the supply of alpha ■■■■ dries up, the 30s becomes a race to snare a beta wallet, before the 40s leave them on the shelf”.
These are the people who think that 9-5 and a holiday in Floriduh is life. Who think that putting a picture of themselves in Frankie & Benny outlets on social media is life, that a loft conversion will impress their neighbours, that mis-using words like “issues” and “basically” makes them sound clever, that saying “can I get” instead of “may I have” makes them sound travelled, that watch football and reality TV because everybody else does, etc etc etc. These are the pointy-shoed, and I pity them.
They can ■■■■■■■ keep it.
