October 3, 2024 • 32 mins
Society is changing at a rapid pace with the use of AI, social media and remote work. Is the new generation entering the work force ready for life after high school and/or college? Patty and the crew discuss
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Whether it's life, relationships, politics, or current events, nothing is
off limits. This is the Patty and the Millennials podcast,
powered by ACME Markets, helping to bridge the gap between
baby boomers, gen X and millennials.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
You want great conversation, well you've got it this podcast
conversation Patty and the Millennials. I'm a radio vet out
in Philadelphia. I'm Patty Jackson, a proud baby boomer. We've
got legendary broadcaster Uncle Ole joining us because there's a
mixture men, women, gen X, gen Z, millennials, and conversation
(00:38):
is a must oh when you look at our young
people today, the gen Zers, do you think they're ready
for the world. They're coming out of high school, they're
coming out of college. But are they ready? Because I
saw a man on the news say, oh, I'm not
putting up with their foolishness.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I'll fire them in a minute, and that was like,
oh my god.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
You know.
Speaker 6 (01:03):
The problem is there's a huge disconnect with the with
the gen Zers and the gen xers, and the problem
is nobody wants to understand one another. The gen xers
are falling into the same trap our parents fell into
with us. Our parents didn't understand us, and so you know,
(01:23):
for instance, they didn't like hip hop and so they
didn't understand us.
Speaker 7 (01:27):
And we're doing the exact same thing to the gen Zers.
You understand, we're the parents of these kids.
Speaker 6 (01:32):
Were complaining about we are the parents if they aren't
being if they don't know anything, we didn't teach them.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Hmmm, So a lot of it has to do with
the parents, really, I guess preparing them for what this
world is.
Speaker 6 (01:48):
Listen, our parents prepared us and showed us.
Speaker 7 (01:52):
We're expecting these kids to just know.
Speaker 6 (01:55):
Imagine you got a kid who's never been to school
before and they're in kindergarten. You come in and they've
never learned and you say, write your name, and then
get mad at them because they can't write their name. Well,
no one taught them how to write their name, so
now you have to teach them how to write their name.
Speaker 7 (02:12):
You have to have the same level of patients.
Speaker 6 (02:14):
You expect someone to have with you, and if you
have zero patients with this new generation, then they're not
going to succeed and you're setting them up for failure.
You're gonna have to show them how to move around.
If they don't know how to move around. Nobody has
patients right now.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Oh, a new survey came out and more.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I guess because they millennials gen xers, they're seeking out
trade jobs. I'm talking about the electricians and the plumbers
and the age back because I can worry about AI
replacing them. These are jobs that are not glamorous, but
they're very needed. Does this surprise you. I'm talking about
(02:55):
people who got these degrees and all this stuff, but
they're going into trade jobs to make a living.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
Because it going paying all this money for college as
they're learning.
Speaker 7 (03:06):
And I support this wholeheartedly.
Speaker 6 (03:09):
Going to get a trade job, go learn a trade
and learn a skill and do that as opposed to
spending all of this money to get a job just
so someone can cannot take a chance on you, or
just so they can bring you in and with they
don't like you, like you just served like you just
said about the gene just benzeers. When they don't like you,
(03:30):
get rid of you. Now you still got this loan
that you have to pay back. So yeah, I support
going to get in the trade wholeheartedly.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Does he Kneel is joining us? This is the podcast
conversation Patty and the millennials, and does he do you
think that young people today are ready for today's world.
And I'm gonna tell you where I bring this up.
I was watching this man on an interview and he
said he's scared the fire real young people, he said,
(03:57):
because they're not good workers. And I was like, oh
my god. Then I read that more young people are
seeking trades, you know, those jobs that are not glamorous.
But think about this. Electricians ain't never going down the style.
Plumbers ain't going down the style. AI ain't replacing them.
(04:19):
People who know how to fix things AI can't replace you.
And more and more people are seeking trade jobs. I
thought that was like a wow moment for me.
Speaker 8 (04:33):
You know, I can understand that because so an answering
the first part. I don't think that the young people
are fully fully prepared.
Speaker 7 (04:41):
And we have nobody, you know, to blame for but ourselves.
I'll speak for myself.
Speaker 8 (04:46):
I feel like sometimes I did too good of a job,
trying to overcompensate for not having been there and working
so hard and you know what I mean, doing so
much in my career. So there's a level of overcompensation.
Speaker 7 (04:58):
That has created some voids in my key. I see
them give up very easily.
Speaker 8 (05:02):
But I also see in the generation and totality, which
is why the trade.
Speaker 7 (05:06):
Thing may be going up.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
She don't want to follow other people's.
Speaker 8 (05:09):
Rules, and so if you're your own boss, right, you're
making your own schedule, you're following your own rules.
Speaker 7 (05:15):
And so maybe that is.
Speaker 8 (05:16):
Why the influx of you know them going into the
trade is there, because they really want to control their
own destiny. And I'm not one hundred percent mad at that.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
But it's why.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
It's the why.
Speaker 7 (05:26):
So if you're not doing it because you want too, when.
Speaker 8 (05:28):
You want that something different, But if you really want
true control and entrepreneurship, then.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
I applaud that.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Most sche Lo Wren is joining us for the podcast
Patty and the Millennials.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
I love hearing your takes on things.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
She's a veteran broadcaster, real estate maybe and she does
it all. We just had an off conversation Motshe. Do
you think the young people are ready for today's society
because now jobs they don't hesitate to fire them with
the wrong attitude doing what they want to do.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Do you think that they're ready.
Speaker 7 (06:06):
They're not.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
They're not ready. They're not ready.
Speaker 9 (06:08):
And I think because because of technology and how it's evolved,
it's sort of giving them this entitlement. They see success,
but they don't see the making of success, and so
they want what they see in a microwaveable type of fashion. Right,
So they're not willing to put in the work like
we used to do, you know, grind and grind and
grind that they don't want that. They want it to
(06:28):
be sort of handed to them.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Did you know that trades are becoming more popular. I'm
talking about electrician.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
M P, lomvers, hvac. Yeah, yeah, all of that.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
These are jobs that AI can't take over exactly exactly.
Speaker 9 (06:49):
And I think that the more people understand that those
are the recession proof jobs.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Those are the jobs that are.
Speaker 9 (06:56):
That people once said, you know, only these type of
people would would want to work in those industries. Now
those are the type of jobs that are going to
help you to retire and retire comfortably because like you said,
you know, you can't get a computer. Well I don't
want to say can't right now. We can't get robots
to go into the sink and fix a.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Leaky yes for now, for now.
Speaker 9 (07:20):
So yeah, but these kids don't want to do that
kind of work. It's too it's too it's too labor intensive.
Speaker 7 (07:26):
You know.
Speaker 9 (07:26):
They want to sit behind a screen and a phone, and.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
You know, well gen x's are moving more towards trades.
Speaker 9 (07:36):
They have really good Yeah, parents and people around them
encouraging them, because that's the direction I'm even.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Sending my nephew. Wow.
Speaker 9 (07:45):
You know, I'm like, uh, yeah, you want to get
something that's gonna pay and that's gonna be long standing.
Get a job like that, or fix the computers that yes, right,
get into computer science and that sort of thing, and
fix the AI technology, you know, machines and devices. But yeah,
it's it's gonna it's it's scary for us that are
moving into the fourth quarter.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Yes, of our lives. You know, it's like, what's gonna
be that for us? Yes, thank you so much. I
appreciate your voice. Thank you, Arlene Fell. The Glassy Brown
Cookies is joining us. Arlene.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Let's look at young people, the gen zs that we
call them. Do you think that they're ready for this world?
Because I saw an astonishing newscasts and the guy was like, oh,
I ain't scared the fire because they don't want to
work I was like, what.
Speaker 10 (08:40):
Unfortunately, I hate to say that because I haven't beat.
Speaker 11 (08:44):
Me too, me too.
Speaker 7 (08:48):
They're just not ready.
Speaker 10 (08:50):
The world is for every changing. With every second, the
world is changing. And as much as I instill core values,
the only thing that I can do is pray that
when it's time for those core values to kick in,
it will work. And I'm going to give you a
prime example. I was in the ACME and I love Acme,
(09:11):
by the way, I wasn't ACME, and there was a
situation with change counting money. The young lady couldn't even
count the money. The register told you what it was.
The register tells you two thouars and one cents is
my change, or a dollar seventy eight is my change.
She had the hardest time counting money because there was
no change, or there was no dollars, and she's like, well,
(09:34):
should I counting and change? Or because I count this way?
They are really having a difficult time with counting money
maneuvering through this world. It is absolutely ridiculous. And I
am hoping that the teachers, some parents, the uncles, aunts,
(09:54):
grandmam and them are helping these young people such as
like myself, helping these young people navigate and understand it's
going to be a rough, rocky world and they're going
to get a lot of bumps and lumps on their
hete when they get out there by themselves.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Dexter is joining us.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Dex do you feel that young people are ready for
the world today? Getting out of high school, getting out
of college, the expectations A lot of employers will fire
them in a second if they come on the job
with the foolishness, And it makes me wonder, are they
(10:33):
prepared or ready for today's world.
Speaker 12 (10:39):
So when I graduated high school back in back in
the day in two thousand and six, when I graduated
high school, I remember thinking like, oh, I'm not ready,
And I know my classmates are not ready for the
real world, Like we're not even ready for college. And
I remember like going through college and just kind of
like maturing and growing up, and then getting into the
work world even more maturing and even more growing up.
(11:03):
And I feel like it's just a very natural thing
that people deal with and go through. But I think
with the kids today, I blame you guys said it
because y'all were giving up the participation trophies and stuff
like that, Like y'all were allowing these kids to just
be coddled. And we weren't coddled like my generation. We
weren't coddled like we are, the generation where y'all would
(11:24):
put us out at eighteen years old and stuff.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
And these new kids, y'all, I.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Do not I do not agree with the group participation
or everybody participate this so they get in the award.
Speaker 7 (11:37):
No, I'm not.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
I'm not from that school.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Do you realize that a lot of people are now
looking at trades as their future path to work? Because
think about it, like this round last conversation, we talked
about the threat of AI. Right, well, an AI cannot
replace some plumber, an electrician, an HVAC person. There are
(12:03):
still jobs that are very needed. Are they glamorous?
Speaker 13 (12:06):
No, but.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Plumbing ain't never going out of style.
Speaker 14 (12:13):
That actually is a really good point too.
Speaker 12 (12:15):
I saw a thing today that Kamala Harris was trying
to not take away college degrees, but she was making
a little bit easier for people without degrees to get jobs.
And I think when you do stuff like that, even
the people with the degree, we really should go try
to find a trade. A couple of weeks ago, we
had a conversation what's more important the degree or the
work ethic? And this has proved that the work ethic
(12:37):
is the most important thing that you could have because
a lot of people you don't need a degree to
do some of this stuff, and like it shows and
these people are like, you're running around with all these
fancy degrees whatever, but you don't know how to do
a thing. You can't use your hands, You're worthless.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Are young people ready for the world, whether you're getting
out of high school or college rescore as a senior
at Saint Joe's University getting ready to graduate next year.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Do you think you're ready for this world?
Speaker 4 (13:12):
I honestly, I don't think. You know, life comes at
you very fast, and that is something that I've been
realizing every day since I entered my senior year. You know,
you're it's different in college than high school. Your high
school senior year, you have guidance counselors and teachers who
are pushing for you to apply to college, really find
(13:35):
out what you want to do with your life. When
you're a senior in college, none of that happens. That's
all on you yourself. And if you don't have the
right people to help you guide that past. You get
pretty lost, and it gets very scary because you realize, Oh,
I graduate and I'm entering the real world and I
(13:55):
still got to figure out how to file taxing. It's
very very but I feel like it matters on their
resources and it matters on calling for help. And that's
something that I'm learning myself that it doesn't hurt to
ask for help. I'm learning that there's so many resources
out there. It's just when you get when you become
(14:16):
an adult, you have to go out for the resources.
The resources can't come to you. And that's something that
I'm understanding and taking in each and every day.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Lexi does so much as a doula to help women
childbirth when you just think of maternal health.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
She is right there, like all in. She's joining us.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
This is the podcast conversation Patty and the Millennials. Lexi,
do you think that our young people are ready for today?
I'm talking about those who are coming out of high school,
those who are coming out.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Of college, the gen zs. Do you think that they're
ready because a lot of people are like dealing with this.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
I mean, employers are not dealing like they're like, uh huh.
Speaker 13 (15:08):
So I honestly, I do think some of them are ready.
And here's why. I think they're coming out in a
time where we are not necessarily ready for them in
certain cases, with the advancement of technology, with the shift
and how they view responsibility, some of them, I think
we haven't always adequately prepared them for what this life is.
Speaker 7 (15:31):
We've prepared them for what it's going to be.
Speaker 13 (15:34):
So yes, we are adopting certain practices around technology and
how we expect work force engagement to be, but we
also are positioning them not to do that. I mean,
we create complications all along their journey posts before they
get to post secondary education or whatever they do after
high school. But then they drop off there and if
(15:55):
you take a look at some of the curriculum, some
of the expectations and the way that they're taught, I
wouldn't be ready for right now. So I think we
need to get back to when we have more skill
based practices in the school and things.
Speaker 7 (16:08):
That did ready you for the real world.
Speaker 13 (16:11):
Versus this kind of arbitrary approach to life skills that
really aren't life skills that they need.
Speaker 7 (16:17):
Now.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Are you surprised to hear that many people. And this
is when we get into the gen x's later millennials.
They're seeking our trade jobs, hvac electricians, plumbing jobs said, ah,
may not big glamorous, but you sure don't have to worry.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
About AI taking your job.
Speaker 13 (16:42):
Well, and it's job security right, Like I mean, for
every generation is looking for what this job security mean?
How is it defined in that workforce generation? And so yes,
they're like, wait a minute. COVID taught us that all
those people who were essential, meaning like they actually needed
to be in person, those are probably the ones that
(17:03):
are more secure. And then when you look at again
technology advances, Oh, those are also the jobs that you
cannot replace with a bot. Right, you need a body,
not a bot. And so I'm not surprised. The other
thing I read too, was that there are a lot
of millennials who are choosing to shift out of whatever
their career choices were or focus were, to go and
(17:27):
purchase the businesses that are being sold by the earlier
generations like baby boomers and things like that.
Speaker 7 (17:34):
So I think that's what we're learning is like, you know.
Speaker 13 (17:37):
What life as we defined it, particularly as it relates
to career progression and economic safety. Oh, we're gonna have
to get real, real traditional and elementary and what that
looks like.
Speaker 7 (17:47):
And let's go back to the basics.
Speaker 13 (17:49):
And I know I'm always encouraging Camille to learn a trade.
That's why I love the work of being a doula,
because you can't just replace that with some thing.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Doctor Heather Richards is here aka Sex Doctor Heather the
podcast Conversation Patty and the Millennials doc. We're talking about
our young people, the gen d's. Do you think they're
ready for today's society coming out of high school, graduating
from college? Do you think that they're ready?
Speaker 10 (18:23):
Oh gosh, this is such.
Speaker 7 (18:24):
A loaded question, Patty.
Speaker 10 (18:27):
You know, I try to be positive.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
It's stay on the positive side of things, and I'm
gonna say, yes, I.
Speaker 7 (18:34):
Think they're ready for what the world.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
Is today, right But I don't know that they're ready
for what the world could be in five years or
two years at that. You know, it's rapidly changing. Things
are always changing. But our kids who are coming out
of school right now, they're so different, you know, with
this world of social media, their expectations and what they're
(18:59):
able to do, it's so different than the previous generation
and the.
Speaker 7 (19:04):
Generation that is under them too.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
But I'm gonna say I do think they're ready in
some aspects, you know, technologically, of course, yeah, I think
they're ready, right, Socially, I'm not social or patty, because
these kids.
Speaker 7 (19:18):
Are not socially.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
Ready for people to talk to. Like, look at what's
going on with the kids who don't have social you
know who came in the COVID era. You know, I
know a lot of people with kids who are graduating,
who are in high school, and they talk about their
kids not wanting to go outside, right, They just want
to stay inside. They don't want to have social interactions
(19:45):
with people of their own age. They rather stay in
and interact socially on social media. So in that respect,
I don't think they're ready, not for the workforce, you know.
So I think maybe college, maybe technical school, they might
be ready. But right now, if if you look at
some of the research around the kids who graduated in
the past two years and are in college, the social
(20:07):
interactions have changed a whole lot, and I think that's
going to impact our nation, our world socially, Like what
is it going to look at like in the party scenes, Like.
Speaker 7 (20:17):
What does it look like now.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
So I think this is a great question. I think
they're going to be ready in certain aspects, but not socially.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
No, okay, are you surprised to hear that many millennials
and Gen X are turning to trade jobs, you know,
with this threat of oh AI could artificial intelligence could
take your job? Many people are seeking jobs that are
not glamorous.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
But guess what.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Everybody needs a plumber, everybody needs an electrician, everybody needs
somebody to do h backwork. I mean, there is work
that needs to be done that can be replaced by
artificial intelligence.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Are you surprised me, I'm not surprised, you know, because
you know. Another thing is that they're turning to uber
and lyft, you know, because people are going to be
needing they need rides, and people need more rides now
more than ever, So I do I am not surprised, Patty,
because that makes so much sense to me. And college
(21:20):
is not on the minds of a lot of the
kids now.
Speaker 7 (21:24):
You know.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
They want the trade jobs. And guess what else they're doing.
They're doing this social media stuff too, making money on
the side, So it's not just the trade job they're doing.
They get to travel, they get to do But you
know what, somebody's trade jobs makes a lot of money,
believe it or not, you too, Yeah, so it makes
sense to me, you know. And and I encourage kids.
Speaker 7 (21:46):
To choose wisely.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
Don't go into a career because you think that's what
your parents want you to do, or that makes more money,
because nine times out of ten they're unhappy.
Speaker 7 (21:55):
So you don't have to go to college.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Go to a trade school.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
Make you some money. But it's still a long road
with trade school as well, because you have to do apprenticeships.
Speaker 7 (22:04):
But I'm not surprised at all.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Comedian Derek Lee is joining us on our podcast conversation
Patty and the Millennials. Derek, do you think that young
people were talking about the gen zs are ready for
today's society or ready for today's world, whether they're coming
out of high school or coming out of college, do
you think that they're prepared?
Speaker 14 (22:28):
Okay, And I don't want anybody to be offended by this.
The young young generation is so weak, they're they're they're unprepared,
they're weak that they get bullied through the Instagram and
they go home and kill themselves. I'm sorry they're too soft.
They're not ready for today's world. They can't handle the
stress that we have. And a lot of times that
(22:52):
it comes from upbringing, it comes from childhood. Of this generation.
I think it's just weak and not not ready for
the world because us the internet is raising them and
not the fathers and the mothers.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
I'm sorry, that's interesting.
Speaker 14 (23:07):
Phone is raising them. Their phone is raising them. And
people don't want to say it, but sixty three per no,
they said, eighty two percent of people that are in
prison are coming from a single family home. We need
more families to be together, and when you have the
fathers that's not around, the families are more broken apart.
(23:30):
You need to see your father more than every three weeks.
You need a relationship with your father. We have too
many men that's not in the household, and when not
not in the household, and they're broken. Kids that come
from single family households, they statistically say, don't go to
college as much.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Let me ask you this question, are you surprised to
hear that many millennials gen X they're seeking trade jobs
back the electricians, the plumbers.
Speaker 14 (24:03):
Yes, because it's cheap. You can get through so quicker
it doesn't cost much. One thousand dollars in four years,
you could be an electrician in eighteen months. You could
be a barber in nine months. I understand it totally.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Do you see more people taking up these kind of
jobs because this is something that's trending. Yeah, it's and
I hate.
Speaker 14 (24:28):
To bring up jokes when I'm saying it, but you
know the people that do your concrete or the people
that do your lawn. Yeah, I don't see Mexican people
going to college doing that. You can show them that
one time they got it, and a lot of times people.
Speaker 7 (24:40):
Are doing roosts and doing.
Speaker 14 (24:42):
Houses and doing the brick and mortar. They go to college,
they're cheap.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Well, I don't think they're doing it to be cheap.
I think that the threat of artificial intelligence. Plus, I
think these jobs that we're talking.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
About the need it.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
We need electricians, we need plumbers, we need hvac. These
are jobs that are not going to go away.
Speaker 14 (25:08):
They're not gonna go away. They're always gonna be there.
They're a barber is always gonna be needed. A bus driver.
They're even saying the bus driver job might be gone.
Speaker 15 (25:18):
So so, yeah, are today's young people ready for the
world I'm talking about and you get out of college,
our high school?
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Are they ready?
Speaker 2 (25:31):
I saw a surprising news story Daisia is joining us
representing the millenniums with the guy said he ain't had
no problem getting rid of young people if they're not
serious or ready, because I'm not here to baby them.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
And I said, oh, oh yeah. So we're talking about
the gen Zers.
Speaker 16 (25:49):
I mean, I get it though, because it has to
be the you have to have the work ethic. Like
I feel like, now everyone's gonna have certain experience with
certain things, but you have to. As long as you
have to work ethic, anything is possible. But if you're
coming in so where and it's just like I got
to tell you what to do, and like baby, yeah,
babysit you. I mean, I understand it sucks, but I
get it.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Are you surprised to hear this is another new trend.
People are going after more trade jobs, millennials gen x.
We're talking about plumbing, electricity, age back jobs.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Not glamorous.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
But you ain't got to worry about AI taking your job,
Artificial intelligence, and you're gonna have a job because these
are three.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Things everybody needs that everybody.
Speaker 7 (26:37):
I mean, I'm I'm.
Speaker 16 (26:38):
Happy to hear that because you hear a lot of
young people who are trying to do social media or
be rappers, or be artists or be certain.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Things like that.
Speaker 16 (26:44):
So I mean, yeah, because we need that stuff. Yeah,
if nobody's doing a job, how are gonna get it done?
Because it's something that we need. So I'm happy to.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Hear that there is a that's the new trend, that's big.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Are our young people, the gen zs, are they ready
for today's society?
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Coming out of high school? Coming out of college?
Speaker 2 (27:04):
We got Chocolate Divinity, Latouria, Charleston, and we're gonna have
Nay days chiming in as well. Toy, do you think
our young kids are ready? Because a lot of employers
ain't putting.
Speaker 17 (27:15):
Up with the issue and the baby It is a
rude awakening for these gen Zers coming out here. I mean,
I know a lot of them are very used to
being coddled, but I think once they get out into
these real world that coddling is not there. And sometimes
you have not Sometimes most of the times you have
(27:35):
to show up on somebody else's clock. It's not about
your clock. And I really feel like that's how a
lot of these gen zers go in. It's what I want.
But at the end of the day, you are unemployed
by somebody else, So there has to be this give
or take.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
You're not just going to show up and it's your show.
Speaker 17 (27:53):
It's their show, and you have to learn how to
navigate in that world. And a lot of these employers
they're getting their faces cracked too. You see it time
and time again. It's like they come in, I'm hearing
a lot of complaints. They talk too much, they don't
gather you know, they don't gather information as good and
(28:14):
it doesn't they don't seem to hold it because a
lot of times they.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Come in and they think that they know everything.
Speaker 17 (28:19):
But also on the and the employer side, a lot
of the let's be clear, a lot of these managers
don't know how to manage. It is a one umbrella
situation and as a manager, it is not like that
you have to manage the person. So instead of sitting
there being angry and talking about these gen zers, pull
(28:39):
them to the side, curate, cultivate them. That's what you
are supposed to do. And then once you pour into
them and they're still not given the results that need
to be given. Then you have to part ways. But
you can't just sit there and complain about these people
and not do anything to help them.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Nay days step up to the mind.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Are today's this younger generation we're talking to gen zs Yep?
Do you think they're ready to step out in this world?
Because it's rough out here?
Speaker 3 (29:11):
We know of them are, yeah, and some of them aren't.
Speaker 11 (29:15):
I think the ones who I think the ones who
go away to college and they're on their own, I
think they learn. My youngest one, I feel like she's
going to be ready. She graduates college in May of
twenty twenty five. She's been living on her own. She
had her own dorm, she buys own food, she cooks,
(29:36):
she does everything she needs to do when she comes home.
Just her behavior patterns lets me know she's ready. She's
going to be ready. Now I'm still not ready. I
try to hold on to her as much as possible. Yeah,
But at the same time, she's pushing me off, and
(29:56):
she's letting me know I can do this.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
I'm ready.
Speaker 11 (29:59):
I got you taught me, You taught me well, So
let me go out into the world. About the other one,
the other one is uh uh freelance artists. I don't
(30:20):
think she's ready. It's like day and night between the
two of them. So I just feel like with her,
I have to spend more time schooling her, showing her
this is how you be an adult, this is what
is expected of you. Yeah, you are a freelance artist,
(30:41):
so you kind of work on your own timeline. But
they may come in town when you can't do that anymore.
You show up, and when you show up, you show
up looking right. I have to get on that one
about that. All your presentation, come on, what you see,
(31:02):
I'll come, you see, I'll leave the house. And how
I come in the South, I said, your presentation is important,
a lot more important than they think it is.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (31:12):
They just think, oh, I'll just do whatever.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Come to work.
Speaker 11 (31:17):
No, I said, when you're having a meeting with somebody,
present yourself properly. I know it's on zoom or teens
or whatever, but you know, mm hm, that's the difference
between the two. Now, my youngest one, she I look
at my how do you what do you look at
(31:39):
when you're tracking them?
Speaker 7 (31:40):
Oh? You GPS.
Speaker 14 (31:43):
The kids jacket?
Speaker 11 (31:44):
Yeah, because they got they got one on me. They
always know where I'm at, so I'll look at it.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
I'll look.
Speaker 11 (31:51):
I'll look to see where they're at when i'm out.
And the youngest one king of Prussia. Yeah, I said,
that's why all that money's going dead. Yeah, and I
go when I see she's in King of Prussia or
automatically run home and look for my credit.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Yeah, the music one that's missing.
Speaker 11 (32:12):
And I just shake my head. Sometimes I shed a
couple of tears. I'm like, she's getting ready hit me up.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Yeah, Well are our children and we're talking about young people.
We're talking about the gen zers. Are they ready for society?
Toya Nate, thank you so much. This is the podcast
conversation Patty and the Millennials, deck Stuck. He puts it
all together and find us where we live SoundCloud, Pandora, Spotify,
(32:38):
Apple Podcasts, and of course I Heart Radio podcast number
one in podcasts. I'm Patty Jackson. Thanks for joining us,
Patty and the Millennials
Whether it's life, relationships, politics, or current events, nothing is
off limits. This is the Patty and the Millennials podcast,
powered by ACME Markets, helping to bridge the gap between
baby boomers, gen X and millennials.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
You want great conversation, well you've got it this podcast
conversation Patty and the Millennials. I'm a radio vet out
in Philadelphia. I'm Patty Jackson, a proud baby boomer. We've
got legendary broadcaster Uncle Ole joining us because there's a
mixture men, women, gen X, gen Z, millennials, and conversation
(00:38):
is a must oh when you look at our young
people today, the gen Zers, do you think they're ready
for the world. They're coming out of high school, they're
coming out of college. But are they ready? Because I
saw a man on the news say, oh, I'm not
putting up with their foolishness.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I'll fire them in a minute, and that was like,
oh my god.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
You know.
Speaker 6 (01:03):
The problem is there's a huge disconnect with the with
the gen Zers and the gen xers, and the problem
is nobody wants to understand one another. The gen xers
are falling into the same trap our parents fell into
with us. Our parents didn't understand us, and so you know,
(01:23):
for instance, they didn't like hip hop and so they
didn't understand us.
Speaker 7 (01:27):
And we're doing the exact same thing to the gen Zers.
You understand, we're the parents of these kids.
Speaker 6 (01:32):
Were complaining about we are the parents if they aren't
being if they don't know anything, we didn't teach them.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Hmmm, So a lot of it has to do with
the parents, really, I guess preparing them for what this
world is.
Speaker 6 (01:48):
Listen, our parents prepared us and showed us.
Speaker 7 (01:52):
We're expecting these kids to just know.
Speaker 6 (01:55):
Imagine you got a kid who's never been to school
before and they're in kindergarten. You come in and they've
never learned and you say, write your name, and then
get mad at them because they can't write their name. Well,
no one taught them how to write their name, so
now you have to teach them how to write their name.
Speaker 7 (02:12):
You have to have the same level of patients.
Speaker 6 (02:14):
You expect someone to have with you, and if you
have zero patients with this new generation, then they're not
going to succeed and you're setting them up for failure.
You're gonna have to show them how to move around.
If they don't know how to move around. Nobody has
patients right now.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Oh, a new survey came out and more.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I guess because they millennials gen xers, they're seeking out
trade jobs. I'm talking about the electricians and the plumbers
and the age back because I can worry about AI
replacing them. These are jobs that are not glamorous, but
they're very needed. Does this surprise you. I'm talking about
(02:55):
people who got these degrees and all this stuff, but
they're going into trade jobs to make a living.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
Because it going paying all this money for college as
they're learning.
Speaker 7 (03:06):
And I support this wholeheartedly.
Speaker 6 (03:09):
Going to get a trade job, go learn a trade
and learn a skill and do that as opposed to
spending all of this money to get a job just
so someone can cannot take a chance on you, or
just so they can bring you in and with they
don't like you, like you just served like you just
said about the gene just benzeers. When they don't like you,
(03:30):
get rid of you. Now you still got this loan
that you have to pay back. So yeah, I support
going to get in the trade wholeheartedly.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Does he Kneel is joining us? This is the podcast
conversation Patty and the millennials, and does he do you
think that young people today are ready for today's world.
And I'm gonna tell you where I bring this up.
I was watching this man on an interview and he
said he's scared the fire real young people, he said,
(03:57):
because they're not good workers. And I was like, oh
my god. Then I read that more young people are
seeking trades, you know, those jobs that are not glamorous.
But think about this. Electricians ain't never going down the style.
Plumbers ain't going down the style. AI ain't replacing them.
(04:19):
People who know how to fix things AI can't replace you.
And more and more people are seeking trade jobs. I
thought that was like a wow moment for me.
Speaker 8 (04:33):
You know, I can understand that because so an answering
the first part. I don't think that the young people
are fully fully prepared.
Speaker 7 (04:41):
And we have nobody, you know, to blame for but ourselves.
I'll speak for myself.
Speaker 8 (04:46):
I feel like sometimes I did too good of a job,
trying to overcompensate for not having been there and working
so hard and you know what I mean, doing so
much in my career. So there's a level of overcompensation.
Speaker 7 (04:58):
That has created some voids in my key. I see
them give up very easily.
Speaker 8 (05:02):
But I also see in the generation and totality, which
is why the trade.
Speaker 7 (05:06):
Thing may be going up.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
She don't want to follow other people's.
Speaker 8 (05:09):
Rules, and so if you're your own boss, right, you're
making your own schedule, you're following your own rules.
Speaker 7 (05:15):
And so maybe that is.
Speaker 8 (05:16):
Why the influx of you know them going into the
trade is there, because they really want to control their
own destiny. And I'm not one hundred percent mad at that.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
But it's why.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
It's the why.
Speaker 7 (05:26):
So if you're not doing it because you want too, when.
Speaker 8 (05:28):
You want that something different, But if you really want
true control and entrepreneurship, then.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
I applaud that.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Most sche Lo Wren is joining us for the podcast
Patty and the Millennials.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
I love hearing your takes on things.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
She's a veteran broadcaster, real estate maybe and she does
it all. We just had an off conversation Motshe. Do
you think the young people are ready for today's society
because now jobs they don't hesitate to fire them with
the wrong attitude doing what they want to do.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Do you think that they're ready.
Speaker 7 (06:06):
They're not.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
They're not ready. They're not ready.
Speaker 9 (06:08):
And I think because because of technology and how it's evolved,
it's sort of giving them this entitlement. They see success,
but they don't see the making of success, and so
they want what they see in a microwaveable type of fashion. Right,
So they're not willing to put in the work like
we used to do, you know, grind and grind and
grind that they don't want that. They want it to
(06:28):
be sort of handed to them.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Did you know that trades are becoming more popular. I'm
talking about electrician.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
M P, lomvers, hvac. Yeah, yeah, all of that.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
These are jobs that AI can't take over exactly exactly.
Speaker 9 (06:49):
And I think that the more people understand that those
are the recession proof jobs.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Those are the jobs that are.
Speaker 9 (06:56):
That people once said, you know, only these type of
people would would want to work in those industries. Now
those are the type of jobs that are going to
help you to retire and retire comfortably because like you said,
you know, you can't get a computer. Well I don't
want to say can't right now. We can't get robots
to go into the sink and fix a.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Leaky yes for now, for now.
Speaker 9 (07:20):
So yeah, but these kids don't want to do that
kind of work. It's too it's too it's too labor intensive.
Speaker 7 (07:26):
You know.
Speaker 9 (07:26):
They want to sit behind a screen and a phone, and.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
You know, well gen x's are moving more towards trades.
Speaker 9 (07:36):
They have really good Yeah, parents and people around them
encouraging them, because that's the direction I'm even.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Sending my nephew. Wow.
Speaker 9 (07:45):
You know, I'm like, uh, yeah, you want to get
something that's gonna pay and that's gonna be long standing.
Get a job like that, or fix the computers that yes, right,
get into computer science and that sort of thing, and
fix the AI technology, you know, machines and devices. But yeah,
it's it's gonna it's it's scary for us that are
moving into the fourth quarter.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Yes, of our lives. You know, it's like, what's gonna
be that for us? Yes, thank you so much. I
appreciate your voice. Thank you, Arlene Fell. The Glassy Brown
Cookies is joining us. Arlene.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Let's look at young people, the gen zs that we
call them. Do you think that they're ready for this world?
Because I saw an astonishing newscasts and the guy was like, oh,
I ain't scared the fire because they don't want to
work I was like, what.
Speaker 10 (08:40):
Unfortunately, I hate to say that because I haven't beat.
Speaker 11 (08:44):
Me too, me too.
Speaker 7 (08:48):
They're just not ready.
Speaker 10 (08:50):
The world is for every changing. With every second, the
world is changing. And as much as I instill core values,
the only thing that I can do is pray that
when it's time for those core values to kick in,
it will work. And I'm going to give you a
prime example. I was in the ACME and I love Acme,
(09:11):
by the way, I wasn't ACME, and there was a
situation with change counting money. The young lady couldn't even
count the money. The register told you what it was.
The register tells you two thouars and one cents is
my change, or a dollar seventy eight is my change.
She had the hardest time counting money because there was
no change, or there was no dollars, and she's like, well,
(09:34):
should I counting and change? Or because I count this way?
They are really having a difficult time with counting money
maneuvering through this world. It is absolutely ridiculous. And I
am hoping that the teachers, some parents, the uncles, aunts,
(09:54):
grandmam and them are helping these young people such as
like myself, helping these young people navigate and understand it's
going to be a rough, rocky world and they're going
to get a lot of bumps and lumps on their
hete when they get out there by themselves.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Dexter is joining us.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Dex do you feel that young people are ready for
the world today? Getting out of high school, getting out
of college, the expectations A lot of employers will fire
them in a second if they come on the job
with the foolishness, And it makes me wonder, are they
(10:33):
prepared or ready for today's world.
Speaker 12 (10:39):
So when I graduated high school back in back in
the day in two thousand and six, when I graduated
high school, I remember thinking like, oh, I'm not ready,
And I know my classmates are not ready for the
real world, Like we're not even ready for college. And
I remember like going through college and just kind of
like maturing and growing up, and then getting into the
work world even more maturing and even more growing up.
(11:03):
And I feel like it's just a very natural thing
that people deal with and go through. But I think
with the kids today, I blame you guys said it
because y'all were giving up the participation trophies and stuff
like that, Like y'all were allowing these kids to just
be coddled. And we weren't coddled like my generation. We
weren't coddled like we are, the generation where y'all would
(11:24):
put us out at eighteen years old and stuff.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
And these new kids, y'all, I.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Do not I do not agree with the group participation
or everybody participate this so they get in the award.
Speaker 7 (11:37):
No, I'm not.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
I'm not from that school.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Do you realize that a lot of people are now
looking at trades as their future path to work? Because
think about it, like this round last conversation, we talked
about the threat of AI. Right, well, an AI cannot
replace some plumber, an electrician, an HVAC person. There are
(12:03):
still jobs that are very needed. Are they glamorous?
Speaker 13 (12:06):
No, but.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Plumbing ain't never going out of style.
Speaker 14 (12:13):
That actually is a really good point too.
Speaker 12 (12:15):
I saw a thing today that Kamala Harris was trying
to not take away college degrees, but she was making
a little bit easier for people without degrees to get jobs.
And I think when you do stuff like that, even
the people with the degree, we really should go try
to find a trade. A couple of weeks ago, we
had a conversation what's more important the degree or the
work ethic? And this has proved that the work ethic
(12:37):
is the most important thing that you could have because
a lot of people you don't need a degree to
do some of this stuff, and like it shows and
these people are like, you're running around with all these
fancy degrees whatever, but you don't know how to do
a thing. You can't use your hands, You're worthless.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Are young people ready for the world, whether you're getting
out of high school or college rescore as a senior
at Saint Joe's University getting ready to graduate next year.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Do you think you're ready for this world?
Speaker 4 (13:12):
I honestly, I don't think. You know, life comes at
you very fast, and that is something that I've been
realizing every day since I entered my senior year. You know,
you're it's different in college than high school. Your high
school senior year, you have guidance counselors and teachers who
are pushing for you to apply to college, really find
(13:35):
out what you want to do with your life. When
you're a senior in college, none of that happens. That's
all on you yourself. And if you don't have the
right people to help you guide that past. You get
pretty lost, and it gets very scary because you realize, Oh,
I graduate and I'm entering the real world and I
(13:55):
still got to figure out how to file taxing. It's
very very but I feel like it matters on their
resources and it matters on calling for help. And that's
something that I'm learning myself that it doesn't hurt to
ask for help. I'm learning that there's so many resources
out there. It's just when you get when you become
(14:16):
an adult, you have to go out for the resources.
The resources can't come to you. And that's something that
I'm understanding and taking in each and every day.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Lexi does so much as a doula to help women
childbirth when you just think of maternal health.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
She is right there, like all in. She's joining us.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
This is the podcast conversation Patty and the Millennials. Lexi,
do you think that our young people are ready for today?
I'm talking about those who are coming out of high school,
those who are coming out.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Of college, the gen zs. Do you think that they're
ready because a lot of people are like dealing with this.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
I mean, employers are not dealing like they're like, uh huh.
Speaker 13 (15:08):
So I honestly, I do think some of them are ready.
And here's why. I think they're coming out in a
time where we are not necessarily ready for them in
certain cases, with the advancement of technology, with the shift
and how they view responsibility, some of them, I think
we haven't always adequately prepared them for what this life is.
Speaker 7 (15:31):
We've prepared them for what it's going to be.
Speaker 13 (15:34):
So yes, we are adopting certain practices around technology and
how we expect work force engagement to be, but we
also are positioning them not to do that. I mean,
we create complications all along their journey posts before they
get to post secondary education or whatever they do after
high school. But then they drop off there and if
(15:55):
you take a look at some of the curriculum, some
of the expectations and the way that they're taught, I
wouldn't be ready for right now. So I think we
need to get back to when we have more skill
based practices in the school and things.
Speaker 7 (16:08):
That did ready you for the real world.
Speaker 13 (16:11):
Versus this kind of arbitrary approach to life skills that
really aren't life skills that they need.
Speaker 7 (16:17):
Now.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Are you surprised to hear that many people. And this
is when we get into the gen x's later millennials.
They're seeking our trade jobs, hvac electricians, plumbing jobs said, ah,
may not big glamorous, but you sure don't have to worry.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
About AI taking your job.
Speaker 13 (16:42):
Well, and it's job security right, Like I mean, for
every generation is looking for what this job security mean?
How is it defined in that workforce generation? And so yes,
they're like, wait a minute. COVID taught us that all
those people who were essential, meaning like they actually needed
to be in person, those are probably the ones that
(17:03):
are more secure. And then when you look at again
technology advances, Oh, those are also the jobs that you
cannot replace with a bot. Right, you need a body,
not a bot. And so I'm not surprised. The other
thing I read too, was that there are a lot
of millennials who are choosing to shift out of whatever
their career choices were or focus were, to go and
(17:27):
purchase the businesses that are being sold by the earlier
generations like baby boomers and things like that.
Speaker 7 (17:34):
So I think that's what we're learning is like, you know.
Speaker 13 (17:37):
What life as we defined it, particularly as it relates
to career progression and economic safety. Oh, we're gonna have
to get real, real traditional and elementary and what that
looks like.
Speaker 7 (17:47):
And let's go back to the basics.
Speaker 13 (17:49):
And I know I'm always encouraging Camille to learn a trade.
That's why I love the work of being a doula,
because you can't just replace that with some thing.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Doctor Heather Richards is here aka Sex Doctor Heather the
podcast Conversation Patty and the Millennials doc. We're talking about
our young people, the gen d's. Do you think they're
ready for today's society coming out of high school, graduating
from college? Do you think that they're ready?
Speaker 10 (18:23):
Oh gosh, this is such.
Speaker 7 (18:24):
A loaded question, Patty.
Speaker 10 (18:27):
You know, I try to be positive.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
It's stay on the positive side of things, and I'm
gonna say, yes, I.
Speaker 7 (18:34):
Think they're ready for what the world.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
Is today, right But I don't know that they're ready
for what the world could be in five years or
two years at that. You know, it's rapidly changing. Things
are always changing. But our kids who are coming out
of school right now, they're so different, you know, with
this world of social media, their expectations and what they're
(18:59):
able to do, it's so different than the previous generation
and the.
Speaker 7 (19:04):
Generation that is under them too.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
But I'm gonna say I do think they're ready in
some aspects, you know, technologically, of course, yeah, I think
they're ready, right, Socially, I'm not social or patty, because
these kids.
Speaker 7 (19:18):
Are not socially.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
Ready for people to talk to. Like, look at what's
going on with the kids who don't have social you
know who came in the COVID era. You know, I
know a lot of people with kids who are graduating,
who are in high school, and they talk about their
kids not wanting to go outside, right, They just want
to stay inside. They don't want to have social interactions
(19:45):
with people of their own age. They rather stay in
and interact socially on social media. So in that respect,
I don't think they're ready, not for the workforce, you know.
So I think maybe college, maybe technical school, they might
be ready. But right now, if if you look at
some of the research around the kids who graduated in
the past two years and are in college, the social
(20:07):
interactions have changed a whole lot, and I think that's
going to impact our nation, our world socially, Like what
is it going to look at like in the party scenes, Like.
Speaker 7 (20:17):
What does it look like now.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
So I think this is a great question. I think
they're going to be ready in certain aspects, but not socially.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
No, okay, are you surprised to hear that many millennials
and Gen X are turning to trade jobs, you know,
with this threat of oh AI could artificial intelligence could
take your job? Many people are seeking jobs that are
not glamorous.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
But guess what.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Everybody needs a plumber, everybody needs an electrician, everybody needs
somebody to do h backwork. I mean, there is work
that needs to be done that can be replaced by
artificial intelligence.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Are you surprised me, I'm not surprised, you know, because
you know. Another thing is that they're turning to uber
and lyft, you know, because people are going to be
needing they need rides, and people need more rides now
more than ever, So I do I am not surprised, Patty,
because that makes so much sense to me. And college
(21:20):
is not on the minds of a lot of the
kids now.
Speaker 7 (21:24):
You know.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
They want the trade jobs. And guess what else they're doing.
They're doing this social media stuff too, making money on
the side, So it's not just the trade job they're doing.
They get to travel, they get to do But you
know what, somebody's trade jobs makes a lot of money,
believe it or not, you too, Yeah, so it makes
sense to me, you know. And and I encourage kids.
Speaker 7 (21:46):
To choose wisely.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
Don't go into a career because you think that's what
your parents want you to do, or that makes more money,
because nine times out of ten they're unhappy.
Speaker 7 (21:55):
So you don't have to go to college.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Go to a trade school.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
Make you some money. But it's still a long road
with trade school as well, because you have to do apprenticeships.
Speaker 7 (22:04):
But I'm not surprised at all.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Comedian Derek Lee is joining us on our podcast conversation
Patty and the Millennials. Derek, do you think that young
people were talking about the gen zs are ready for
today's society or ready for today's world, whether they're coming
out of high school or coming out of college, do
you think that they're prepared?
Speaker 14 (22:28):
Okay, And I don't want anybody to be offended by this.
The young young generation is so weak, they're they're they're unprepared,
they're weak that they get bullied through the Instagram and
they go home and kill themselves. I'm sorry they're too soft.
They're not ready for today's world. They can't handle the
stress that we have. And a lot of times that
(22:52):
it comes from upbringing, it comes from childhood. Of this generation.
I think it's just weak and not not ready for
the world because us the internet is raising them and
not the fathers and the mothers.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
I'm sorry, that's interesting.
Speaker 14 (23:07):
Phone is raising them. Their phone is raising them. And
people don't want to say it, but sixty three per no,
they said, eighty two percent of people that are in
prison are coming from a single family home. We need
more families to be together, and when you have the
fathers that's not around, the families are more broken apart.
(23:30):
You need to see your father more than every three weeks.
You need a relationship with your father. We have too
many men that's not in the household, and when not
not in the household, and they're broken. Kids that come
from single family households, they statistically say, don't go to
college as much.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Let me ask you this question, are you surprised to
hear that many millennials gen X they're seeking trade jobs
back the electricians, the plumbers.
Speaker 14 (24:03):
Yes, because it's cheap. You can get through so quicker
it doesn't cost much. One thousand dollars in four years,
you could be an electrician in eighteen months. You could
be a barber in nine months. I understand it totally.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Do you see more people taking up these kind of
jobs because this is something that's trending. Yeah, it's and
I hate.
Speaker 14 (24:28):
To bring up jokes when I'm saying it, but you
know the people that do your concrete or the people
that do your lawn. Yeah, I don't see Mexican people
going to college doing that. You can show them that
one time they got it, and a lot of times people.
Speaker 7 (24:40):
Are doing roosts and doing.
Speaker 14 (24:42):
Houses and doing the brick and mortar. They go to college,
they're cheap.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Well, I don't think they're doing it to be cheap.
I think that the threat of artificial intelligence. Plus, I
think these jobs that we're talking.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
About the need it.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
We need electricians, we need plumbers, we need hvac. These
are jobs that are not going to go away.
Speaker 14 (25:08):
They're not gonna go away. They're always gonna be there.
They're a barber is always gonna be needed. A bus driver.
They're even saying the bus driver job might be gone.
Speaker 15 (25:18):
So so, yeah, are today's young people ready for the
world I'm talking about and you get out of college,
our high school?
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Are they ready?
Speaker 2 (25:31):
I saw a surprising news story Daisia is joining us
representing the millenniums with the guy said he ain't had
no problem getting rid of young people if they're not
serious or ready, because I'm not here to baby them.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
And I said, oh, oh yeah. So we're talking about
the gen Zers.
Speaker 16 (25:49):
I mean, I get it though, because it has to
be the you have to have the work ethic. Like
I feel like, now everyone's gonna have certain experience with
certain things, but you have to. As long as you
have to work ethic, anything is possible. But if you're
coming in so where and it's just like I got
to tell you what to do, and like baby, yeah,
babysit you. I mean, I understand it sucks, but I
get it.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Are you surprised to hear this is another new trend.
People are going after more trade jobs, millennials gen x.
We're talking about plumbing, electricity, age back jobs.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Not glamorous.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
But you ain't got to worry about AI taking your job,
Artificial intelligence, and you're gonna have a job because these
are three.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Things everybody needs that everybody.
Speaker 7 (26:37):
I mean, I'm I'm.
Speaker 16 (26:38):
Happy to hear that because you hear a lot of
young people who are trying to do social media or
be rappers, or be artists or be certain.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Things like that.
Speaker 16 (26:44):
So I mean, yeah, because we need that stuff. Yeah,
if nobody's doing a job, how are gonna get it done?
Because it's something that we need. So I'm happy to.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Hear that there is a that's the new trend, that's big.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Are our young people, the gen zs, are they ready
for today's society?
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Coming out of high school? Coming out of college?
Speaker 2 (27:04):
We got Chocolate Divinity, Latouria, Charleston, and we're gonna have
Nay days chiming in as well. Toy, do you think
our young kids are ready? Because a lot of employers
ain't putting.
Speaker 17 (27:15):
Up with the issue and the baby It is a
rude awakening for these gen Zers coming out here. I mean,
I know a lot of them are very used to
being coddled, but I think once they get out into
these real world that coddling is not there. And sometimes
you have not Sometimes most of the times you have
(27:35):
to show up on somebody else's clock. It's not about
your clock. And I really feel like that's how a
lot of these gen zers go in. It's what I want.
But at the end of the day, you are unemployed
by somebody else, So there has to be this give
or take.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
You're not just going to show up and it's your show.
Speaker 17 (27:53):
It's their show, and you have to learn how to
navigate in that world. And a lot of these employers
they're getting their faces cracked too. You see it time
and time again. It's like they come in, I'm hearing
a lot of complaints. They talk too much, they don't
gather you know, they don't gather information as good and
(28:14):
it doesn't they don't seem to hold it because a
lot of times they.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Come in and they think that they know everything.
Speaker 17 (28:19):
But also on the and the employer side, a lot
of the let's be clear, a lot of these managers
don't know how to manage. It is a one umbrella
situation and as a manager, it is not like that
you have to manage the person. So instead of sitting
there being angry and talking about these gen zers, pull
(28:39):
them to the side, curate, cultivate them. That's what you
are supposed to do. And then once you pour into
them and they're still not given the results that need
to be given. Then you have to part ways. But
you can't just sit there and complain about these people
and not do anything to help them.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Nay days step up to the mind.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Are today's this younger generation we're talking to gen zs Yep?
Do you think they're ready to step out in this world?
Because it's rough out here?
Speaker 3 (29:11):
We know of them are, yeah, and some of them aren't.
Speaker 11 (29:15):
I think the ones who I think the ones who
go away to college and they're on their own, I
think they learn. My youngest one, I feel like she's
going to be ready. She graduates college in May of
twenty twenty five. She's been living on her own. She
had her own dorm, she buys own food, she cooks,
(29:36):
she does everything she needs to do when she comes home.
Just her behavior patterns lets me know she's ready. She's
going to be ready. Now I'm still not ready. I
try to hold on to her as much as possible. Yeah,
But at the same time, she's pushing me off, and
(29:56):
she's letting me know I can do this.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
I'm ready.
Speaker 11 (29:59):
I got you taught me, You taught me well, So
let me go out into the world. About the other one,
the other one is uh uh freelance artists. I don't
(30:20):
think she's ready. It's like day and night between the
two of them. So I just feel like with her,
I have to spend more time schooling her, showing her
this is how you be an adult, this is what
is expected of you. Yeah, you are a freelance artist,
(30:41):
so you kind of work on your own timeline. But
they may come in town when you can't do that anymore.
You show up, and when you show up, you show
up looking right. I have to get on that one
about that. All your presentation, come on, what you see,
(31:02):
I'll come, you see, I'll leave the house. And how
I come in the South, I said, your presentation is important,
a lot more important than they think it is.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (31:12):
They just think, oh, I'll just do whatever.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Come to work.
Speaker 11 (31:17):
No, I said, when you're having a meeting with somebody,
present yourself properly. I know it's on zoom or teens
or whatever, but you know, mm hm, that's the difference
between the two. Now, my youngest one, she I look
at my how do you what do you look at
(31:39):
when you're tracking them?
Speaker 7 (31:40):
Oh? You GPS.
Speaker 14 (31:43):
The kids jacket?
Speaker 11 (31:44):
Yeah, because they got they got one on me. They
always know where I'm at, so I'll look at it.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
I'll look.
Speaker 11 (31:51):
I'll look to see where they're at when i'm out.
And the youngest one king of Prussia. Yeah, I said,
that's why all that money's going dead. Yeah, and I
go when I see she's in King of Prussia or
automatically run home and look for my credit.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Yeah, the music one that's missing.
Speaker 11 (32:12):
And I just shake my head. Sometimes I shed a
couple of tears. I'm like, she's getting ready hit me up.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Yeah, Well are our children and we're talking about young people.
We're talking about the gen zers. Are they ready for society?
Toya Nate, thank you so much. This is the podcast
conversation Patty and the Millennials, deck Stuck. He puts it
all together and find us where we live SoundCloud, Pandora, Spotify,
(32:38):
Apple Podcasts, and of course I Heart Radio podcast number
one in podcasts. I'm Patty Jackson. Thanks for joining us,
Patty and the Millennials
Popular Podcasts
The Breakfast Club
The World's Most Dangerous Morning Show, The Breakfast Club, With DJ Envy And Charlamagne Tha God!
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
Decisions, Decisions
Welcome to "Decisions, Decisions," the podcast where boundaries are pushed, and conversations get candid! Join your favorite hosts, Mandii B and WeezyWTF, as they dive deep into the world of non-traditional relationships and explore the often-taboo topics surrounding dating, sex, and love. Every Monday, Mandii and Weezy invite you to unlearn the outdated narratives dictated by traditional patriarchal norms. With a blend of humor, vulnerability, and authenticity, they share their personal journeys navigating their 30s, tackling the complexities of modern relationships, and engaging in thought-provoking discussions that challenge societal expectations. From groundbreaking interviews with diverse guests to relatable stories that resonate with your experiences, "Decisions, Decisions" is your go-to source for open dialogue about what it truly means to love and connect in today's world. Get ready to reshape your understanding of relationships and embrace the freedom of authentic connections—tune in and join the conversation!