rainingcatzanddogs
A True Doomsday Prepper
Good for them! I started working very young to help with the family bills but then I went to college and became an idiot for several years and wasted it all! I was 10 when I started babysitting and 14 when I got a "real job". Can you imagine what I could have done had I been wise?
... but, what's done is done. I applaud your kids for being wiser than I was.
I would never send my kids to college. I was convinced by a guidance counselor that I couldn't be anything unless I went to a large university. I simply wasn't mature enough for serious studying and I still had a lot to learn before picking a $50,000 career.
The best part is I went to school for something which is already an obsolete field. My degree isn't worth the paper upon which it's printed!
I can understand these Gen Z kids a little. They have been sold a lie and they realize it. Pair that with no discipline and entitlement and you get idiots who think socialism is the cure. The problem is, they're just trading one lie for another without ever dissecting it.
My first job was at 9 y.o. manually detasseling corn for $1 an hour.