RE: Yours, yours, yours
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Do people actually think like that after a lifetime of participation awards? I don't remember getting them in school (or maybe for some things, but in fairness I don't remember a lot and especially not right this second after a few too many really late nights in a row trying to finish that stupid only-just-a-sketchy XD). My boys used to get one every year from playing footy and it got to a point where we were just viewing them as mementos of that event/year rather than anything to be particularly proud of XD
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Yeah, they do think like that. People coming straight out of uni expecting C-level salaries - I see it often.
I got one for hockey when I was 7 - the only one I got for participation. The things I earmned for skill always had more value.
If you knew my kids you could see how much they value their competition medals over the participation trophies ;D
Middle child probably values hers more than her older brother as girls' gymnastics around here is a hell of a lot tougher than boys' gymnastics on sheer numbers. There's so few boys doing gymnastics that it's perfectly normal for everyone my son's group to get medals even at states level because there's usually only 2-3 of them for that age group in that level.
Having said that even youngest doesn't value his participation medals and he doesn't compete.
I don't know what a C-level salary is, but I guess it would be similar to stories one of JJ's friends was telling us. He used to work in construction and started at the ground floor (doing basic labouring stuff) and eventually worked his way up to site management, and has done interviews with fresh uni graduates who are expecting to be able to waltz straight into management positions with zero practical experience of the building process by virtue of having studied in an institution for three or four years.
Speaking of which there seems to be one of those question topic things floating around about the relevance of degrees XD
oh ps - just on participation medals and the like, I have to wonder if dumbarse parents aren't drivers of some of these things, as I know a small handful of parents at gymnastics complain the age groups are unfair because their kids are competing against slightly older kids and thus have "no chance" of getting a medal.
I wonder if people would be happy if they turned up to a bar and were assigned a random partner for showing up? Perhaps some would be :D
Corporate level salaries, upper management. I have had experience similar to JJ's, kids showing up wanting to have a salary that gives them a new house, Audi and 4 weeks travel abroad - at 25 years of age.
There always is ;)
Yes, parents are largely to blame for this as they instill most of the values and are drivers of "achievement" even if it is irrelevant.
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