Well, I'm going to use my last post to rebut RJKarl's vicious personal attack against me to clarify my position vis a vis my feelings about today's WF millennials as it regards to personal situation.
1) RJ would have you believe that I decided to marry my wife to step into a job with her father's company. That could not be further from the truth. My 1st date with my wife was on July 31, 1963....9 1/2 years before I took a job with that company on January 29, 1973 (and 4 1/2 years after we were married on October 4, 1968). The entire idea that I would ever work in that company came about completely unexpected when he began to have health problems at age 62. I had taken a job with Burlington Industries as an administrative trainee making $7,500/yr just six weeks after graduating from WFU. Then I was drafted about a year later and spent two years making less than $3,000/year before going back to my job at BI. During all of this time there was never any thought that I would ever work in that company.
2) I dated my future wife for more than five years before we were married....all the way thru my four years at WF....and next October we will have been married for 50 years. I would say that our relationship has endured and should be envied by people like RJ (and others here), rather than mocked. For example, maybe RJ could enlighten us on the endurance of his personal relationships over all these years by comparison. After all, he is only six years younger than me. At any rate, RJ's idea that this relationship began with my plan to get a job there 9 1/2 years later is simply ludicrous.
3) My point about the millennials is that I took a job making $7,500/year six weeks after graduation. That would probably be equal to $35-$40,000 in today's dollars. I am fairly certain that there are jobs available out there for recent WF grads in that salary range if they wanted to take them....but they don't. They feel that such jobs are beneath them, and since many evidently have access to family money to continue going to school for another 2, 4 or 6 years rather than taking a $35-40,000 job, many of them just continue going to school. That was not an option for me. My dad was a blue collar machinist for Western Electric who never made more than $8,000/year in his life. I have been mocked for saying that I went thru my four years at WF without ever having a car on campus....thumbed home on weekends, etc....but I'd love to see today's WF students try to go thru their four years under similar circumstances.
So, that's it for me. I am certain that this post will also be twisted and mocked, but at this point I'm all in with you guys. Actually, it's a relief to be gone. We both won in this deal.