If you were born 15 to 25 years ago you are growing up in yet another "unique time".

45 years ago when I was 15 I fanticized about a possible future when telephones didn't need cords and regular people could possibly have a computer of their own. I also recognized that most of what college taught was worthless in real life. I earned a 75 % academic scholarship to the University of Detroit, a high dollar, prestigious Jesuit University. But like a lot of disgrunted teeagers in 1977, I skipped it.

Job prospects in 1977 sucked. My generation was realizing that public education unions were corrupting and "dumbing down" the education system. Like most young people I didn't care or follow politics until I stumbled across the author Robert Ringer. I've been "political" ever since.

When I was 21 I had the first insurance agent computers available for Farmers Insurance Group agents. First one in Michigan as I remember. The IBM 5280 series computer operated from a floppy disk the size of a 45 rpm record...

It was very slow but such an improvement from my yellow pad and hand held calculator that I justified the $10,000 cost about 3 times what my brand new Chevrolet Chevette Car cost at the time.

When I was 30 I had a "brick phone" that cost almost 10 percent of my income to use. The reception was terrible by today's standards, it was heavy, clunky and didn't hold a charge. I thought I'd found the holy grail for my business. Suddenly I could call, talk to people and sell stuff even when I was driving in the badlands of New Mexico.

In 2020 the average 15 year old has many times more computing and telephone capacity than I did when I was 40, just 20 years ago.

My generation was taught to get a job but in most parts of the country in 1977 - 1985, there were very few "jobs". You had to create you "job'  by being an "Entrepreneur".

That's what I did and that's what today's 15 to 25 year olds are going to have to do too.

Entrepreneurs and tough times.

Both have been around since the start of mankind.

You have choices...

You can be angry about the mess the previous generation is leaving you with or...

You can be excited about the opportunity you have

You can blame or you can learn.

When you are starting out in the "entry level" job market in America your job choices are restaurants, hotels and similarly low skilled, low wage jobs. Now, like in 1977, most of those jobs are very limited or gone entirely.

You have to find the next "generation" of jobs that you can fill. That DOESN'T mean you have to work for somebody older and "wiser" who figured it out 2 days before you did. It DOES require that you take some time to do some serious studying and thinking. The world has enormous problems right now but it also has enormous opportunities.

America is still the best place in the world to live and build a business in AND you are no longer limited to doing business locally or even nationally. Now you can do business anyplace in the world if you learn the rules.

You're only young once. Opportunity never decreases but energy does decrease with age,

Get busy young people. Learn Entrepreneurship. It's the way forward (in my opinion) for the next generation.

Bill Bateman (like BATMAN with an "e" in the middle)

PS - it all starts with goals http://trckapp.com/GoalsOnTrack

PPS - YOU need help (we all do) in some area or another. Ask for it. You'll always pay for it in some way (in time/money or reciprocity) and most of the times it will be worth it and occasionally it will be wildly/extraordinarily/unbelievably "worth it". Asking is always free because so many that came before you really want you to suceed