I have known lots of adults who enjoyed similar enthusiasms as a kid and weren't encouraged and then didn't go anywhere with it and so they're unhappy in their jobs as adults.
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Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want to be one of them.
It's important that the adults appreciate that young people are capable of doing really astounding work.
The crucial question one comes back to is the examination; without that experience is meaningless. And I think it's true that society is becoming more and more passive, less and less fired up with enthusiasm, in many spheres.
Young people can be annoying, let's face it. But they can also be really refreshing to be around and full of enthusiasm.
Why are young adults so self-centered and always seeking instant gratification? Because older adults, often in positions of power, paint them that way.
Young people, you need the wisdom of age, just as some of us older ones need your enthusiasm for life.
Our grandparents' generation never expected too much out of life and, paradoxically, were happier for it. It never occurred to my granddad that he would enjoy work. He hated it from the day he walked through the factory gates at 14 to when he left at 65.
I didn't have a dysfunctional childhood or young adulthood, but I was somebody who was very much raised to do what other people told me to do as a person.
I was a bit of a troubled kid growing up, let's put it that way. I didn't take pleasure in hard work.
Kids love watching adults act like children. It's that spirit they can relate to.
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