My grandma started and operated a meat and three for over twenty years. She was there every morning by 4:30 making biscuits, slicing bacon and sausage, cutting country ham, cooking etc, etc. by 7 am she was slicing potatoes, cooking green beans, cabbage, squash etc for the lunch crowd, She generally closed at 8 pm and the last hour she was cleaning, mopping etc. She literally did work herself to death when she suddenly suffered a massive stroke that killed her. Her only son, my uncle, built and ran a gas and convenience store for over twenty years. Neither of them madw very much money after all the overhead and expenses of doing business.
I did a lot of work in both from the time I was 13 til I turned almost 16 when I wasn't in a hay field or a tobacco patch. For the past 20+ years I have spent the better part of this time working in supervision and Ops Mgmt in a variety of industries includind warehousing and distribution.
This is strictly my opinion but far too high of a percentage of young people today think they are too good to do much of anything requiring any manual labor and are just too damn lazy with no work ethic to begin with. Don't know how many times I have hired someone who worked a day or two and then quit, with many of them saying " that job is too hard" or "I didn't expect it to be like that."
In some cases us parents are to blame but I also think cell phones and social media have played a role as well. Many so-called workers today can't keep their hands nor eyes off the damn phones long enough to do an honest day's work.
Rant over
