RICHARD5
Well-Known Member
...or, (entitled) kids these days.
The "Stagnate Career" thread got me thinking....
My room mate, 22 yrs old.
I turn 51 in July.
He's a very cool guy. Very personable, very smart.
But it's obvious he's been coddled his entire life. I dare say he has a sense of entitlement...that he expects everything to come to him and someone to do for him that which he should do for himself. And it seems he expects everything to go his way.
Conversely, when things haven't gone his way in the year that I've known him, he pouts and acts like a spoiled brat. It's always about him but when adversary strikes, it's more so.
Last week he even dared to get all stupifying uppity about his plane assingment; he got bent that he was assigned to a plane not his preffered aircraft. Seriously, he threw a hissy fit that 'his' plane was not available and he just had to fly a different plane. His response was, "Whatever." This comapany allowed him to choose whether to fly or not. He chose not to fly on a very busy day while he sulked all day in bed. Oh ----ing boo hoo.
Anyway, this past Saturday was our last day, our employment was terminated. Boy, did he shut up. Now none of us know what we're gonna' be doing. He will be going back to FLA and has the option of instructing at Daytona, something he dreads.
But this isn't about my room mate, per se. It's about all of us. I happen to be of the generation spawned of the generation which came of age in a depression and saw a world war. Don't think they didn't impress their values onto me. I had a low draft number for Viet Nam. I saw wage freezes where grown men with families worked 3 or 4 jobs, and so did their wives.
So it's hard for me to swallow when a youth--who their entire life had only seen prosperity yet had never seen adversary--cries or whines about their 'misfortune'.
Moral: Whatever you think it should be.
The Shiney Jet syndrome reference is how I explain my roomie's recent behaviors. He's obviously bored flying piston singles over the same route again and again. And he's had several friends visit who are flying CRJs and I'm pretty sure he's feeling left behind. But what he seems to discount is they are making less $$ than we were.
The "Stagnate Career" thread got me thinking....
My room mate, 22 yrs old.
I turn 51 in July.
He's a very cool guy. Very personable, very smart.
But it's obvious he's been coddled his entire life. I dare say he has a sense of entitlement...that he expects everything to come to him and someone to do for him that which he should do for himself. And it seems he expects everything to go his way.
Conversely, when things haven't gone his way in the year that I've known him, he pouts and acts like a spoiled brat. It's always about him but when adversary strikes, it's more so.
Last week he even dared to get all stupifying uppity about his plane assingment; he got bent that he was assigned to a plane not his preffered aircraft. Seriously, he threw a hissy fit that 'his' plane was not available and he just had to fly a different plane. His response was, "Whatever." This comapany allowed him to choose whether to fly or not. He chose not to fly on a very busy day while he sulked all day in bed. Oh ----ing boo hoo.
Anyway, this past Saturday was our last day, our employment was terminated. Boy, did he shut up. Now none of us know what we're gonna' be doing. He will be going back to FLA and has the option of instructing at Daytona, something he dreads.
But this isn't about my room mate, per se. It's about all of us. I happen to be of the generation spawned of the generation which came of age in a depression and saw a world war. Don't think they didn't impress their values onto me. I had a low draft number for Viet Nam. I saw wage freezes where grown men with families worked 3 or 4 jobs, and so did their wives.
So it's hard for me to swallow when a youth--who their entire life had only seen prosperity yet had never seen adversary--cries or whines about their 'misfortune'.
Moral: Whatever you think it should be.
The Shiney Jet syndrome reference is how I explain my roomie's recent behaviors. He's obviously bored flying piston singles over the same route again and again. And he's had several friends visit who are flying CRJs and I'm pretty sure he's feeling left behind. But what he seems to discount is they are making less $$ than we were.