Currently: In other words, ARGH!!!!
Ok, so if one has been out of work for a year, with "out of work," being only the kindest of ways of describing the state of "never really having been employed at all," how would one go about getting a job? Any job? Or would the year of joblessness indicate that there was never any intention of getting a job, as long as the parents were willing to float the basic survival needs (food, shelter, cell phone, games fit for the new computer, etc.)? Would more years of schooling really help? Would low-wage fast food employment be desirable over nursing the indignation of wasting a perfectly good BA at home while somewhat relentlessly (and fruitlessly) surfing Careerbuilder?
What about the parents? What could they do to speed along the re-emptying of their nest? Could they really just kick the (monstrously spoiled, lazy, feckless) child out? What's the quickest way to "mature" a should-really-be-but-not-quite-yet-post adolescent male?
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Parents kick the kid out. Or charge rent for housing. And charge for food. And games. And maybe even air.
If somebody gets something for nothing, the right amount to use is until the marginal value is zero. I think that food and shelter have positive marginal utility for quite some time, don't you.;-)
Are parents willing to do this?
I'm betting the parents aren't willing.
And I'm floored that it's been a year!!!!
Parents will never do this. Parents will never do anything. Silly parents.
Parents think that the child needs a loving and secure envrironment free from worry in which he can "mature" enough to get a job. So no, they're not willing, just yet. In fact, when they are willing to talk about it (which is not often), they've now come around to saying that his being at home and jobless is a good thing!
In a few more weeks it will be a year since he graduated early last May. Working minimum wage for a year, with no other expenses, would have paid off a couple of his student loans. Oh, which my parents paid instead.
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