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Anxiety and College Students
Again lastnight we took a call at a local college. 20 yr old female with "flu like symptoms" with a history of anxiety. I swear every college kid I come into contact with at work is under some type of treatment for anxiety? Did the parents forget to teach them that life can suck sometimes? Have parents given these kids anything and everything they ever wanted, spoiled to the core then they get to college and realize that life can in fact be a bitch?
It makes you wonder if the Barney, I Love You, You are the BEST, no need to actually track progress, just give everyone an "A" GOOD BOY/GIRL!.......No, hey, that grade sucks, we need to work on it.
Did we raise a generation of kids that demand to be treated as A-#-1 champions just for participating? At work, my younger co-workers want to be told, I shit you not, dispatch does this at the start and end of every shift now...THANK YOU FOR SIGNING IN....They demand to be THANKED for showing up for thier scheduled work shifts. WTF? MedCom......"Alpha 62, thank you for signing in, post station 2"...WTF? It has bugged me so much that when medcom says it, I reply "thank you for scheduling me today`s shift" I can understand if a crew goes over and above to get something done, to thank them, Even write them up for kudo`s from the boss. But, thanking a crew for showing up for an assigned shift? PUHLEEEEEEASE! I am thanked every 2 weeks when I cash my freakin check.
It is somewhat scarey that these kids don`t have a clue about life`s basics. Life is hard at times. We all work hard to get what we want from it. Sometimes there are failures......it`s how we learn, by failing and picking our ass up off the floor and trying again.
My stepson is a sophmore at a local college. He has NEVER HELD ANY kind of job. WTF? 19 years old! his mom and dad now sit back and wonder what is wrong with this "lazy" kid? Well, they made him that way. 24/7 you did so good on this or that!! Way to go!! No goals, boundries or rules set and enforced. I`m no hardass. I`m the biggest goob your ever meet but my goodness. As an employer, I`d look at jobs a person held while in school. It goes along the lines of life experiance. No experiance, no job from me.
We seem to spoon feed these kids that..."life is fine, you are a champion, great try" yet no backup of how things can really be. No expectations......Then they get smacked in the face with reality at college and can`t cope. It`s sad, it really is.
Sigh..
It makes you wonder if the Barney, I Love You, You are the BEST, no need to actually track progress, just give everyone an "A" GOOD BOY/GIRL!.......No, hey, that grade sucks, we need to work on it.
Did we raise a generation of kids that demand to be treated as A-#-1 champions just for participating? At work, my younger co-workers want to be told, I shit you not, dispatch does this at the start and end of every shift now...THANK YOU FOR SIGNING IN....They demand to be THANKED for showing up for thier scheduled work shifts. WTF? MedCom......"Alpha 62, thank you for signing in, post station 2"...WTF? It has bugged me so much that when medcom says it, I reply "thank you for scheduling me today`s shift" I can understand if a crew goes over and above to get something done, to thank them, Even write them up for kudo`s from the boss. But, thanking a crew for showing up for an assigned shift? PUHLEEEEEEASE! I am thanked every 2 weeks when I cash my freakin check.
It is somewhat scarey that these kids don`t have a clue about life`s basics. Life is hard at times. We all work hard to get what we want from it. Sometimes there are failures......it`s how we learn, by failing and picking our ass up off the floor and trying again.
My stepson is a sophmore at a local college. He has NEVER HELD ANY kind of job. WTF? 19 years old! his mom and dad now sit back and wonder what is wrong with this "lazy" kid? Well, they made him that way. 24/7 you did so good on this or that!! Way to go!! No goals, boundries or rules set and enforced. I`m no hardass. I`m the biggest goob your ever meet but my goodness. As an employer, I`d look at jobs a person held while in school. It goes along the lines of life experiance. No experiance, no job from me.
We seem to spoon feed these kids that..."life is fine, you are a champion, great try" yet no backup of how things can really be. No expectations......Then they get smacked in the face with reality at college and can`t cope. It`s sad, it really is.
Sigh..
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Permalink Reply by Fireyladd Chief Sharp on -
Let it all out bro, dont hold back. Oh, yes and here's some Paxill
I couldnt agree more Bro.
Seems that every kid these days takes something like that because the world is just not fair!!!!
WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! Get a grip and as you said, Pick your butt up and keep on moving. There are lessons to be learned and experiences to be had that hurt or piss you off. "THATS LIFE" !!!!!
Remember that song Ralph?
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Permalink Reply by Ralph L. Carr IV on -
Must have been before my time.....oldster....LOL....Yes, this grandad remembers......LOL..
I may grow old but I`ll NEVER grow up!
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Permalink Reply by Ralph L. Carr IV on
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I`m not trying to say that my ex and I raised our kids the best way. It was the way we knew. Both of our kids are doing well in life. In a life of their choosing, with a bit of guidance along the way. No pushing into this or that. Both have good work ethic and morels. I wonder about the daughter, she was a far right winger turned lefty by her husband.....lol.....the teacher.
The kids knew life was a biotch sometimes. They both had odd jobs from a young age. They both have a HUGE background of life experiance to draw from at their young age. The anxiety my adult kids face are their co-workers at times. They see lazy or whinner at work, they call them out about it. Tell them to buck up or ship out.....lol.....It`s funny, the daughter has worked her way up the driver ladder at FedX and is finishing he BS...(I love that term BS)...and is looking at a FedX management position soon. The boy is still searching. Right now, on his own, he`s just bustin butt to make money for things he wants or needs. And he`s able to do it so far. Not bad for a kid that was written off at age 3. "get him on SSI, he`s mentally and physically challenged"....screw that, he`s fine.
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Permalink Reply by Loyd Dittfurth on -
dam dude you sound like my dad
age 7 tried to air my bike tire up and i thought the belt wasnt spinnin on the aircompressor fast enough lol
5 hours later
"loyd get your but out from infront of that tv and go mow the yard"
I love that man for everything I was pissed at him at the time for now
lol I hope you got that last part
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Permalink Reply by Jim on -
There was an excellent thread on the subject of 'Entitlement' posted here a few months ago..I'm too lazy and tired to post a link but this thread reminds me of it...
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Permalink Reply by Fireyladd Chief Sharp on
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Good memory Jim. Last thing to go. LOL
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Permalink Reply by Ralph L. Carr IV on
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Jim...........LOL......lazy kids. I bet I read it and forgot about it already. hell, I may have even commented on it. Dementia CAN be your friend.
The entitlement question isn`t exactly where I was going with this. It`s just that the kids I come into contact with have this warped view of the world. Everything is equal, everything is fine. We`re all number 1. Then when they see that they are actually scored or graded on success or failure, they lose it and wig out.
Now, there sure is the entitlement tude on campus a LOT. A crew here in town went on campus yesterday for, gawd, don`t laugh......a sore throat. The group of kids called 911 several times looking for ETA updates. central got worried and thought maybe it was an allergic reaction so they sent a LEO. The LEO got on scene, it was OMG, a sore throat. The kid`s friends were yelling "what`s taking so long???this is an emergency!!!" He was like....."no it`s not"......I love that kid, the young LEO. Another in the group actually yelled "shit, we could have been to the damned hospital by now!!".....well......her feet and legs arn`t sore. (was the thought in our minds).....They snap their fingers and expect the world to jump, just like mommy and daddy did for them at home. THEN, reality hits......
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Permalink Reply by Fireyladd Chief Sharp on
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OH MY ! isnt that the way it is Bro? Tell me it is please. I cant stand the thought that life isnt just a bowl of Chocolates. LOL! Have another Paxill
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Permalink Reply by Loyd Dittfurth on
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as a member of the younger generation i have to say thats not all of us but there are a lot out there I personally had to quit school because my after school jobs wernt enough to get the bills paid but i will say i did get some attaboys growing up mainly for doing somthin that i prolly shouldnt have been able to do
and as a past employer after i told my guys to do somthin i always said thank you to them out of respect but lordy lordy if they screwed it up they got a "you lil fu$&in son of a ####h do it right or walk your happy go ##c# your self a$$ home" I never had to give many of those to people before they quit screwin off but i had a good crew that most were 15 to 20 years older than me
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Permalink Reply by Justin on -
lol we had some college kids stop by our station the other night after a call to there apt building. THEY called 911 for smell of smoke in a structure(turns out it was the house next doors wood stove going). they stopped by to complaine that we were contributing to noise pollution by using our siren when we were responding to the call that THEY called in. i the capt was gana shit bricks. the look in capts eyes i thought he was gana give these tree hugging over privlaged, rich kids a piece of his mind.
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Permalink Reply by Ralph L. Carr IV on
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That`s like the sore throat girl yesterday. She expected lights and sirens to come to her aide, she demanded P-1 dispatch for a sore throat and was pissed the rig took too long. "We could have been to the hospital already!!!'...well, it`s 4 blocks away....Hop in you beemer and drive...
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Permalink Reply by Doug on -
Didn't they already label a "Me" generation, the one that the Baby Boomers brought into this World?
I agree, to a point, some kids are just lazy and don't know how to act, or what to do, once they get out into the real World. But don't lump them all into that category.
I'm part of Generation X, and we turned out ok.... for the most part, ha! Hell, we're the ones trying to fix the problems the "Me" generation caused.
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