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So you can have kids working at McDonalds and the expectation becomes children working at 12? The expectation of teenagers working is already a huge brain drain as it's sacrificing the development of actual skills or knowledge for minimum wage or sub-minimum wage workers.
Succeeding in a working environment is a more valuable and broadly applicable skill than calculus.
So is not being a cunt.
We still need people who can do calculus at some point.
See, I tutored physics students in college.
12 years of public schooling don't do a fucking thing for preparing them for intellectual pursuits. Their sophmore year kinematics class is probably the first time they'll have ever been tasked to properly problem solve. And yes, I'm talking about the ones that all got A's in highschool.
Teenagers working will give them viable skills that will make them self-sufficient and teach them life lessons that school absolutely refuses to teach them. NoGardE's position on this is correct, but it's even worse then that. Public schooling isn't helping prepare kids for college either.
School isn't developing any actual skills, and might even be harming them.
Work actually requires actual basic bitch skills like attentiveness, attention to detail, scheduling, discipline, time management, efficiency, and all the basic life skills you need to hold a job. Kids, nowadays, aren't learning those until after they graduate college.
Most prepared for the real world are in this order, from most to least prepared:
That's also the same ordering that most jobs have for young people with little work experience. There is a reason that Highschool graduates with no further education will out-earn college graduates until both reach the age of 35. I say this as a man who figured it out too late after graduating with a BS in Physics and tutoring physics students for years. The brain drain in STEM is a lie. All the positions are over-filled on purpose by the Department of Labor for national security reasons, and to intentionally depress the wages of STEM workers.
Why are the ones who work full/part time so stupid than? To the point where if they're asked to do anything involving technology or something like basic math, they get a look of terror?
Beyond that, I think most of the efficiency and attention to detail that work teaches is in the boomer sense of not using technology properly and therefore just being extremely inefficient.
I think you've got a twisted view of society generally, and it also depends on the experience of those individuals themselves.
Society is generally bad at math and technology. They probably aren't worse than most people. Schooling just harps on mathematics that only specific trades actually use in normal life.
That being said, having also worked in IT, highschool graduates are also doing programing, coding, and networking. Since it is their trade, they've learned it much more thoroughly in it's application than anyone at the university has. They will assume incompetence coming from universities compared to their direct level of mathematical skill that they need to do their job.
If you're talking about high-school grads that went into carpentry, sure you can do diff eq better than them. But don't be surprised if they know trigonometry better than you do when they use it every day. Even if they can't theoretically drive it from fundamentals.
Okay, sit down time.
Come here.
That is an opinion that will cost you a job, your career, and your sanity.
It's not even scientifically debated that "multi-tasking" yourself with lots technology will destroy your efficiency. The boomer philosophy of attention to detail is absolutely critical to your life, and will cost you in every possible way imaginable. That is that: 'sit down, nose to the grindstone, solve the problem, do it the right way, and make sure you've built it to last' mentality.
They have that, because many cheap professionals will do a rushed job that meets the requirements, but doesn't excel them, isn't redundant, doesn't last, and isn't aesthetically pleasing.
Could be as simple as fixing a gutter.
You'll pay some asshole $150 to fix your gutter, and it'll break next year.
Or, you can install it yourself. You'll learn the new skill and how to solve these problems in the future. You'll follow the instructions carefully, and use all the right tools and procedures. It will take longer, might even cost the same amount, but once the gutter is working right, you can fix all the other gutters in the future, or even help your friends fix theirs. If you did it with an intent to last, it will continue to function properly for many years. If you made sure it was aesthetically appealing, you'll get to take pride in the work that you did, and it will be a morale and confidence boost.
That attention to detail is very important; and you don't have to rely on con-men who don't give a fuck about you and over-charge because you're too helpless to do their job.
Lacking attention to detail will absolutely piss people off because they'll realize you don't give a fuck about what you're doing, despite the fact that you're being paid to do it, and they have every right to be furious with you.
If you go down the route of multi-tasking your problems away, you'll find yourself less productive, more busy, and generating worse results.
Questions?
I mean your normal high school graduates who went into whatever. I mean the ability to problem solve with technology to any degree, writing a word document is considered a skill in the current climate.
The latter is purely due to boomer attention to detail. The con-men, and the people who end up making mustard gas in an effort to clean their homes are products of valuing effort and connections without basic knowledge. I'd also consider it a scam to pay someone for months of "work" to complete a task that can be done in a trivial amount of time by technology.
Human error loses to technology in efficiency and effectiveness in almost every situation except those highly specialized.