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[quote user="selector"][quote user="curtw_944"] This comes up every couple of months. The Hobby maybe shrinking But I dont feel it is dying. There will always be hobbies no mater what the time or century is. If you really want to know what is Killing the hobby and all hobbies for that mater look at your selves and the genral populas.  Alot has to do with the way kids have been raised. Kids from the baby boomer generation or kids 30 and younger are spoiled. They have never had to work Hard for anything. Parents from the world wars didnt want to raise there kids the way they were raised. They provided what they could when they could and brought up there kids the best they could. Now that being said the kids from the spoiled generation are bringing their kids up in an instant gratification culture! If we cant have it done and now then why bother!?!?! They dont know how to work hard for what they have, most everything has been handed to them when they screamed for it. I am 25 Just turned the quater century mark last sat. the 18th. I for one am Discusted with the way the US has become. There is no loyality in employees or employers. Case and Point Employees want to make all the money in the world and want it now! If they have to work to hard for the raise they quit when the going get tough because they may break a nail. On the flip side an Employer who feels that you dont do enough for the company will terminate you even if you are working 12-16 hours a day and dont take any breaks. this is because you dont bring enough $$$ in or produce enough product so they can Pad their pockets. The cost of living has become so outragious that no one has a disspossiable income any more. An that could be why their is a down turn in the hobby these days as well. Any way I am going to get off my box now. Every time this question comes up it irks me. So in closeing I have a question to pose for ALL OF YOU, Why do we always look at the negitive in life, What Happened to the Possitive? Lets stop complaining about the death and enjoy what we have. Curt [/quote] Not that I am disagreeing with your premise and conclusions, Curt, but I wonder how many generations of later life adults have lamented that the generation of young adults that follows them is spoiled and doomed to learn many hard lessons.  The obvious answer is... one more than the number of generations of young people who shake their heads at the apparent folly and blinkered conservatism of their elders. However, it is strange, to me, to see someone as young as you take the position of we fuddy-duddies!  Again, not that I disagree with you or anything...[:D] [/quote] Well I am a fuddie duddie, lol. I really dislike the screaming hoards of kids at the appartment complex that dont have any respect for anything. I will be the first to admit I was spoilled when I was a kid but not to the extent of some of the kids I knew in school. I have had summer jobs since I was 12 and a real job when I turned 16. I was in school full time and in marching band as well worked around 30 hours a week. Needless to say I was a very tired student. As well when I graduated HS I went to college M-F from about 6:45 am to noon. Then got out and worked 7 days a week 6-7 hours a day. I did that for 20 months at which point I went to work in catering and became a custom to working from 5am-5pm on a regular basis. Now keep in mind I was also driveing an hour to and from work home and school. So my 12 hour days were closer to 15 depending on trafic. I now work for a sign company and have a 8-5:30 shift doing sales M-F. Have I mentioned the last real vacation I have had was in 1998. Also unlike most 25 year olds I dont drink smoke or party. If it gets past 11pm I am very cranky the next morning when I have to get up. Any way I feel very fortunite for what I have in life and get very cranky when my boss tells me that the only way I will be happy in life is when I bring home a 6 figure income. She came from corperate america making that dosent have kids and blows money like it is water. She bought this location at the begining of the year and is freaking out because she cant forcast her months and Our sales arnt where she want them to be. She keeps telling me to get my sales up because she will soon be makeing her 6 figure income soon, and I have to get to makeing at least 60,000 to start being happy in life. Sorry to rant it is just very depressing to me that there is no loyality in this world any more, and it bogles the mind as to how materialistc people have become. It is amazing how the focus in life has turned from the family and floped to material wealth. Off my soap box now, Curt
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