Babyboomer RV'ers Have Experienced it All!

toedtoes wrote:

Tom_Diane wrote:
Just a couple more thoughts from those years. I do recall the paper routes and some less pleasing times like as baby up to a toddler, we had an out house that a drag to get to in the winter but it had to be done!
Not knocking the next generation but the work ethic was stonger. I used to get a gallon of lawn mower gas in the can and fill the tank, I would go door to door asking to mow a persons lawn for 50 to 75 cents. In the winter I hit up those same houses for removing snow for the same fee I for mowing! That work ethic kept me in pocket change and in a lot of cases, the people had me work odd jobs for them in the summer, raking, pulling weeds etc.
It seems like the responses to this thread goes back to the music! I thought I was the only one! I'm in poor health and it lets me reminice and go back to my youth!
This is a neat thread! The gen x'ers are going to create some great memories going back to their childhood and no doubt they will be tied to the music

The next generation (Generation X) also did work like that (at least those who had traditionalist parents). Baby boomer parents tended to put priority on education; traditionalist and GI parents tended to put priority on work. So, it isn't really an issue of work ethic, it's an issue of prioritization by the parents. And because the baby boomer parents put the focus on education, they usually supplied "play money" for the kids so they didn't need to go out and do odd jobs.

The differences between each generation aren't because of something lacking from the generation, but because of the changes in parenting that the prior generation did. No one really wants to raise their kids like they were raised - so if one generation raised kids this way, the next generation will raise them that way.

I hope I didn't offend anybody with my last reply.
There is no more hay baling for the farmers , all big round bales now. I would tell to some that were younger than me that I worked with how we did the door knocking for mowing and such. Had a couple of them tell me that they would not be caught doing things like that!
No more paper routes but I wouldn't let one of my kids or grandkids in this day and age take a route.
Everything is on a computer or mechanized and some jobs are skilled jobs that most of us boomers didn't take the opportunity to learn.
Fact of the matter is that I rely on the younger generation for setting up our video electronics computer fixing and things like that!