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Post by healthy11 on Jun 17, 2016 19:13:20 GMT -5
www.huffingtonpost.com/jared-buckley/why-adult-children-living_b_10509310.htmlThis article by Jared Buckley, who calls himself "The Millennial Skills Coach," brings up several good points. Among them, "Allowing adult children to stay at home could be robbery of development. Leaving home to develop into adulthood is crucial for many reasons. Adult children are probably still developing their identities in the early stages of adulthood. Living with parents means dependency. They must graduate into independency to truly shape their identity beyond parents. Responsibility, resourcefulness, and problem-solving are other skills developed by young adults when they move out of their parent’s house." It's worth reading the full article.
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Post by healthy11 on Oct 7, 2016 20:17:09 GMT -5
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Post by eoffg on Oct 8, 2016 9:50:22 GMT -5
The real world for young adults in Australia?
Is that with overly inflated house prices in our cities.
Most young adults, will never be able to buy a house.
Where prices continue to increase, though wages are generally static.
Rents are equally high, so that we have many full time workers. Living at poverty level, after paying rent.
We are also having a major transition, from 'full-time jobs', to 'casual jobs'.
So that their is no certainty about having a job tomorrow?
Yet many jobs continued to be outsourced, to third world countries.
Then just around the corner, we have the new Robotic age?
Where even Lawyers are in fear of being replaced?
Though historically, this 'leaving home' is relatively a new phenomena?
Where families had a block of land, and when the children married. They might add a house to the block?
What might happen, is to an age where families have their 'apartment block'?
Which avoids the cost of buying land.
But basically what I'm suggesting, is that we really need to consider the current global financial environment, that young adults are living in?
Where a growing number of them, are also not buying a car.
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Post by healthy11 on Oct 8, 2016 15:51:46 GMT -5
Eoffg, what you describe in Australia is also happening in the U.S. Even "middle-age" workers are affected by the lack of certainty of having full-time jobs. Two of my good friends (one an accountant, the other an optometrist) were told that their companies would no longer "keep them on the payroll," but they were encouraged to keep working as "independent contractors." (I'm guessing that's the same as "casual jobs" in Australia.) In that way, the companies don't have to pay the same benefits, like vacation days, and if they decide to save money by reducing headcount, they just cancel the contract without having to "fire" an employee. My son's company announced a 2% salary REDUCTION to the employees in his Division this year, because they said business was slow. Nevertheless, I imagine the C.E.O. of the company and other executives probably made millions, and did not experience benefit or salary cuts. In spite of that, I know my son is currently "an exception" to most young adults right now, because he works and bought a house in a city that has reasonable housing costs ( www.cheatsheet.com/culture/buy-home-for-50000.html ) but if he should lose his job, there are not many other engineering companies in that area. In our town (an hour away from him) prices are about 3 to 4 times higher, for the same size home, but we have more jobs nearby. These are very uncertain times we live in, and the situation does make it very difficult for many people of all ages.... |
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Post by eoffg on Oct 9, 2016 8:35:56 GMT -5
Healthy, for our Casual Workers, they don't have any contract. For example, an employer might say; 'I can probably give you 4 hours work a day, 5 days a week.'
But at the end of each day, they will have to ask if they need to come in tomorrow?
Where the hours per day, can also vary.
Their are no benefits, such as holidays, sick leave or anything else.
So that their is no job security.
Casual workers are unable to get a bank loan to buy a car, let alone a house.
The unemployment rate in Australia, has remained fairly stable over recent years.
But every month, their is a reduction in full-time jobs, balanced by an increase in casual jobs.
Though your son's salary reduction, is happening in all 'developed countries'.
Which is making historical precedence. As increasing wages, have provided individuals with more money to spend. Which requires increased production, and more jobs.
Where your son has 2% less money to spend locally.
Today's children are growing up in a whole new global economy? Where we are yet to realise the change that automation and robots will have?
As we enter the real 'Digital Age'.
Where Quantum computers, will make today's computers look as simple as calculator?
With their Binary model.
Also with 3D Printers?
Where a company has recently developed a huge 3D Printer, that can Print/Build a house?
Which sounds crazy, but is true.
So that in the future, all of the trades people involved with building a house?
Will have to compete against a 3D Printer?
But of equal or perhaps greater concern, are studies into producing Food with 3D Printers?
Where the current focus, is on producing 'Meat' with a 3D Printer.
Which could lead to a situation, where Vegetables are printed out?
With over half of the world's populations primary work in agriculture?
Imagination the situation, where they have to compete for work?
With a 3D Printer?
Where the CEO's of corporations, will take the cheapest option.
Stephen Hawking, warned that we risk making human's redundant?
Which is getting closer, day by day.
Healthy, sorry for carrying on about this?
Though we really need to think about the future that we are creating for our children, and future generations?
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Post by healthy11 on Oct 10, 2016 17:40:31 GMT -5
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