I could really use everyone's help! — Page 4

So, I have a question. What if I donate $1000 and you still don't make enough to get in. Do I get my money back or will that go towards your next vacation.

You just decided to pursue this dream? Well give yourself a couple of years of planning. Why do you have to go right now? Go back to your crappy jobs and start saving and reapply when your finances are more secure.

This seems more like impulse shopping to me.

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See what I mean?

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I don't know if I would call it "entitlement," but I would definitely call it "laziness."

If this new dream of yours is less than a year old, that means you've done less than a year's work toward realizing that dream ... and yet your hand comes out to strangers to give you money.

I say get a job or two or three. Find better financing, scholarships, loans, grants. Find a better school to learn your craft. You jumped right to "free" money from strangers twelve months after a nice vacation.

Somewhere along the way pride and a sense of accomplishment have gotten trampled by the prospect of a free ride.

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Updated On: 12/2/12 at 01:25 PM

"Entitlement," to me, would be if he thought we all somehow owed him the "free ride."

Merely asking for it is just ballsy and lazy (at least to me).

Taking offense to our comments posted here is just ignorance. What kind of a response was he expecting?

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^ That's what I'm a little unclear about.

Is his "dream" to be an actor or just to go to this one school? If it's the latter ... why?

EDIT: Personally, I think this is all just a runaway reaction to that Project Kick-Starter website, where anybody with an artistic dream can put hands out for money. I'm not saying some of the causes and people and projects aren't worthy, but there has been a snowball effect ever since it started.

"I have a dream ... here's my idea ... here's where you can send your money!"

I supported two projects early on when the site first launched, and then I was getting 2 or 3 requests a month for help. Instead of working hard toward achieving dreams, people are "panhandling" for them. And it seems to be an early step in the process now.

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Updated On: 12/2/12 at 01:39 PM

Yeah, that is what is confusing.

I do agree that it never ends. Some things I can see, but others I can't. Even things that are not arts related people try to get money as easily as possible. Some people just live off of people feeling sorry for them for horrible things that happen in their lives.

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In case anyone is keeping score, Nick hasn't gotten any donations at all since he posted on here. All you had to do was forward his plea! Jeez!

So, I agree with every word PJ and After Eight wrote.

I'd offer to help, but I went broke bankrolling some folks a few years back...

So sick of 'takers' and trolls.

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But you could have forwarded it to others and asked them to help!

Updated On: 12/2/12 at 07:31 PM

The article hits the nail on the head. At my last few jobs, you saw examples of that attitude daily by not a few of the employees.

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Updated On: 12/2/12 at 07:48 PM

Updated On: 12/2/12 at 08:11 PM

I do think it's a different situation--and I do think there is *some* problem with people expecting to have high paying jobs immediately after leaving post secondary education.

I guess, even though I'm now in my early thirties, I sorta get defensive though when people bring up retail jobs, like the person who wrote that article did. Honestly, I can think of more cases of being completely ignored by some older emplyees in those jobs than younger ones--often with them choosing to instead pay attention to someone older (and presumably more wealthy seeming) than myself. So I think the issue runs both ways.

I listen to talk radio a lot while doing work, and it does make me bristle how many older people call in to shows and complain about the entitled youth of the current young generations. Part of it is because I think what issues there are there, and theere certainly are, are ones that some of the older generations (the baby boomers in particular) have to take some of their own blame for instead of just shaking their heads with blanket blame. The other is that I think it's something older generations have always felt on some level about younger generations (my grandmother has said that back when she was a teenager in the firties and forties she swears she would hear the same thing said about her generation). To blanketly just see this as a generation issue --and so removing yourself from any blame--doesn't deal with anything (and I'm not saying anyone in this thread has been doing that--but I did think the man who wrote that article was.)