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Many, but certainly not all millennials are "freelancers." They have a much shorter attention span (likely from development influenced by participation trophies, video games and social media), and don't have the same sense of commitment that many other generations seem to have. They like to keep their options open. It is not just in the realm of work. They like to hold out, or look for something "better" that might come along, and then flee at the slightest inkling of dissatisfaction.
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too much 90210 syndrome (but I never watched the show)
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Curious, exactly what sort of behavior did you expect from the offspring of a fiend?
Epstein didn't kill himself.
"Play Cinnamon Girl you Sonuvabitch!"
Biden didn't win the election.
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Pretty depressed area where I live and I just can't understand walking away from a 50 buck an hour gig. That's just me I guess. Carry on, guys. 
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Curious, exactly what sort of behavior did you expect from the offspring of a fiend? ????? His brothers are cut from a far different cloth.Friendship has nothing to do with it.
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still trying to wrap my head around $50 per hour. While in college, I worked my tail off for $2.50 per hour. been a while ago. It was above minimum at the time..
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Not much opportunity here in West Virginia that's a fact but this is nuts. Good kid but,............ I dunno is this common where you live ?
Got a grant for truck driving school and finished with flying colors. Finally found a job but quit the first week because he didn't like the truck they assigned him. ???????
18 months goes by with no job and no interviews.
Lands a job on one of the gas rigs. Almost $50.00 per hour but quits because he's away from home for 15 days,...
Has a 3 year old daughter,.... WTF ???? Millennial generation. Never satisfied.
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Curious, exactly what sort of behavior did you expect from the offspring of a fiend? ????? His brothers are cut from a far different cloth.Friendship has nothing to do with it. re-read your title. It reads fiend.....you're missing an "R"
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Assuming he's spending time with the kid, has a roof and food, all is good.
Lots of guys that have pulled down good money whilst working away from home while the wife raised their boys, which is shameful to me. I've yet to feel any shame for starting a family while on a 14/14 rotation. At the end of they year, I spend far and away more time with my kids than someone working 8-5 and seeing their kids for a couple hours in the morning and the evenings, even those coaching little league on the weekends in addition.
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Curious, exactly what sort of behavior did you expect from the offspring of a fiend? I was thinking Jeffery Dahmer or Charles Manson must have a son when I read the title...
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Curious, exactly what sort of behavior did you expect from the offspring of a fiend? ????? His brothers are cut from a far different cloth.Friendship has nothing to do with it. re-read your title. It reads fiend.....you're missing an "R" Kinda thought you guys would work around that. Carry on.
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If the kid is paying for the shelter over his head, food on the table and the daughter isn't deprived of anything, who cares what he does for work? Who cares if he bounces around from job to job?
Maybe he prefers to spend time with his daughter, which is actually a very good thing....
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Buddy of mine has a masters degree in geology.
He did the work and travel after the education process but now drives a beer truck route and loves it.
I never understood the Jones.....great big house on the hill with a driveway full of new cars, trucks and boats. A couple 3500 sq ft "cabins" for the weekends....ad in a wife that loves manicures and plastic money.
Phuqe that chit
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still trying to wrap my head around $50 per hour. While in college, I worked my tail off for $2.50 per hour. been a while ago. It was above minimum at the time.. Different century...  DF
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yes, yes it was..
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that's the beauty of this country and this life we're given
we're FREE to make the choices that best suit us as individuals.
same path won't work for everyone, likely to be crowded if it did.
I'm pretty certain when we sing our anthem and mention the land of the free, the original intent didn't mean cell phones, food stamps and birth control.
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If the kid is paying for the shelter over his head, food on the table and the daughter isn't deprived of anything, who cares what he does for work? Who cares if he bounces around from job to job?
Maybe he prefers to spend time with his daughter, which is actually a very good thing.... Another valid point but considering his time and effort spent job hunting only to quit shortly after doesn't add up. Turned down a federal prison offer because it was a 45 minute drive each way.
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Curious, exactly what sort of behavior did you expect from the offspring of a fiend? ????? His brothers are cut from a far different cloth.Friendship has nothing to do with it. re-read your title. It reads fiend.....you're missing an "R" Couch Fiend
If you put Taco Bell sauce in your ramen noodles it tastes just like poverty
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See it all the time. They will sit at home and don't want to work unless they're being paid what they feel they're "worth".
Slaves get what they need. Free men get what they want. Rehabilitation is way overrated. Orwell wasn't wrong. GOA member disappointed NRA member 24HCF SEARCH
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It's very simple.
He has no responsibility and does not want to work.
Someone is bailing him out, so he continues to let them. That's it. Nothing brings more job satisfaction than an empty stomach...... 
Biden's most truthful quote ever came during his first press conference, 03/25/21.
Drum roll please...... "I don't know, to be clear." and THAT is one promise he's kept!!!
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