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Jeff
I agree very much with what Victor said, that kids EXPECT too much nowadays. In my opinion alot of it has to do with the new pressure that every kid is EXPECTED to go to college, which I think is wrong. When I was that age it wasn't a foregone conclusion that you would go on to college. You did if you were very smart, or your parents were rich, or you wanted that white collar position. This opens up the doors for creative ways of getting kids into college that have no business being in college... Boy could we digress on that I'll bet...
But what I wanted to say is that TIME magazine has an editorial in the July 28 issue (how timely) about the differences between the US and European in term of working. Some quotes: "while Europeans cut the hours they spend at the office (..in France it is illegal to work more than 35 hrs a week).. Americans were concluding that you could be happy only if you work hard and play hard... In jampacked weekends they invented the uniquely American concept of scheduled joy, filling a day off with one appointment after another, as if it were no different from one at the office."
He says that the jammed space of European convinced them to value 'time'; whereas we in the wide open US value 'stuff'. So although I don't feel good turning over the country someday to the current generation of kids, I agree with Jeff on the other hand that emphasis on work, wealth and power is no way to model your life. Guess that puts me on the fence, huh?
Karen
