I think it's a grave misconception that boomers have that the younger generation aren't working HARD. We are busting a gut to improve things.
But its boomers who actively block all the ideas and innovations with the stroke of a pen and the power that they wield. working hard, also, does not necessarily mean working smarter. You can do 80 hours for someone else and be absolutely exhausted by the end of it, and then DIE or you can do 25 and still have a life AND also enjoy the fruits of your labours. It is possible! But boomers don't really think it's possible because they are stuck in their patterns and workaholic mentality, neglecting their children plus losing the entire weekend for it. (Now people are called to work 24/7 and that is actually not good for anyone) And for what? Yet ANOTHER house when the one they already have in the family has actually been paid for.
Hey
Lanolin;
It is a grave misconception. An earlier generation called the Builders prior to 1946 and during WW1 accused the boomers of being spoiled because the older generation wanted to give their children everything they didn't have during the war and depression. Sounds like a
recycled statement after the boomers into the next generations and so forth.
When I was in my 30s and in the early years of my accounting career, our 40 year old manager told us to work smarter, not harder. Ironically, he was let go because though he was getting the job done, he cut corners, therefore, not working harder. He enjoyed the perks of long lunches, going home early and it seemed he took an extra day during holiday weekends. The end result was too many holes were found in his work.
There is nothing wrong with
working harder or
working smarter, but I find that through prayer, the balance of both is most beneficial. As an example of
using hands and wisdom, review the background in Nehemiah 6:15,
So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty-two days. - ESV
My wife and I put our heads together, and bought our second home for $254,000.00, a brand new 4 bedroom with a huge backyard in Arizona. That same house in California would have easily purchase brand new for $800,000.00 in 2006. We were going to have the family rent our first home and have a place to stay when we came back to visit. In 2018 we questioned our decision,
but learned from it. Then as we prayed God made a way for us to sell our Arizona home for almost the same price we originally paid in 2019.
What little good we have learned we pass on to our younger ones in our family and church community.
