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    >   Cyberpope wrote --   
      
    > > I try to pass on that thinking to the newbies, but so far not many can   
    > > accept it as reality until it's too late at this company.   
      
    >   Too often that isn't taught any longer.  Its all about me: My wants, my   
    > needs, etc.   
      
   Yup. . .The Me Generation, indeed! :(    
      
   Oh well, I don't have to play their games by their rules.   
      
    > > I'm just grateful my dad taught me hard work & personal responsibility   
    > > when I was young.   
      
    >   Something that is missing today.   
      
   Mot definitely. I'm trying to teach my son the same values, but it's hard, as   
   some are downright illegal now!   
      
   Imagine if I told him to go shovel driveways without charging!! I'd be   
   crucified for not ensuring he got paid $15.20/hour! (at 12 years old, yet)   
      
   I'd go out shoveling, if I were physically able to still!   
      
   Then the city union would attack me for undercutting their hourly raste of   
   $38.40 or something!  I'd fight them on the basis of I ain't doing THEIR job   
   (strictly on city properties)   
      
   The caretaker in my townhouse complex pays minimum wage to tenants who can &   
   want to shovel. . .   
      
   Absolutely zero takers this year!   
      
   In the big city bnext doorm, when I lived in an apartment complex, the same   
   deal existed & only one person, a guy over 70, did the shoveling every time it   
   snowed (he didn't mind -- more money in his pocket); I'd be the same, were it   
   possible, into my nineties!   
      
   His parents lived in the '30s.  My dad's am early Boomer, but from a   
   conservative/traditional background (children remain silent unless addressed,   
   when told to jump, you only ask "how high?" AFTER your feet have left the   
   ground, etc.); suited me fine; I'm in positino to evaluate the lessons as they   
   fit into the world I'm in, & only foster forward those that will work best. . .   
      
   I'm just thankful I have good lessons to consider; so many now never had them,   
   & it's no wonder they're as they are. Spoiled ne'er-do-wells!   
      
   I dn't blame tjhem; they do the best with what they have, as I was taught to   
   do, they just don't have as much to grow from. I feel bad, more than mad. . .   
      
   I rant, yes, but thst's more for humour effect than actual anger. . .   
      
   I'm not the old king commanding the tide to stop. I'm the old commoner tying   
   scrounged lumber together into a basic raft.   
      
   Your friend,   
      
   <+]:{)}   
   Cyberpope, Bishop of ROM   
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