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by jheriko 5148 days ago
Rubbish. It certainly sounds like he has made an effort to at least bring money in, and has had jobs.

However, this tells me it is not hard to find a job, just hard to find a nice job. This is different. Having a nice job is an incredible luxury nobody has an inherent right to...

This opinion is compounded by various complaints about immigrants "taking" jobs. The truth is everybody feels they are entitled to do something amazing - regardless of if they are good enough. Some of us have to suck it up and stack shelves or staff factories...

Aspiring to more is great and everyone should do that imo. But reality might mean working a lot of crap jobs in the meantime to survive.

Survival is shockingly easy in today's world. Not surviving requires a concerted effort in fact...

To sum up. I think this complaint is valid when worded properly - its just completely unimportant.