See that's the thing, I was not like that and most teens of my generation where not either. Of course you always had the few but for the most part we all had jobs starting at 15 and we did the job as we were supposed to. My first job was in a bakery at a grocery store. There was 1 supervisor for the whole store who stayed up front by the registers most of the evening and the departments had teens and early 20s working them. We all did our jobs and did them the right way without anyone standing over us telling us over and over to actually do our jobs. If you forgot to do something you sure as heck heard about it and never made that mistake again. Of course back then if you went to apply for a new job they would call your old job to see what kind of worker you were. They can't do that anymore so you could steal, cheat, lie, etc and your new job would have no idea what a horrible employee you where. The first thing they told us when we were getting hired is that if you are old enough for a job then you are old enough to do the job right. They would not talk to your parents if you wanted to call in sick or wanted a day off, etc. So back then, you did the job and did it right or you did not have a job until you matured and learned a work ethic, or not and you lived in your parent's basement forever.
But that is your limited experience and memory.
Are you Gen X? A notable example of
alternative rock is
grunge music and the associated subculture that developed in the
Pacific Northwest of the US. Grunge song lyrics have been called the "...product of Generation X malaise".
[104] Vulture commented: "the best bands arose from the boredom of
latchkey kids". "People made records entirely to please themselves because there was nobody else to please" commented producer
Jack Endino.
[105] Grunge lyrics are typically dark,
nihilistic,
[106] angst-filled, anguished, and often addressing themes such as
social alienation, despair and
apathy[107]
The Baby Boomers who most definitely questioned authority and did not just do what they were told.
Key characteristics: experimental, individualism, free spirited, social cause oriented.
Key characteristics: less optimistic, distrust of government, and general cynicism.
The Silent Generation who loved Elvis as he idolized James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause.
Or the Flappers before them "The flapper stands as one of the most enduring images of youth and new women in the twentieth century, and is viewed by Americans as something of a cultural heroine nowadays. However, back in the 1920s, many Americans regarded flappers as threatening to conventional society, representing a new moral order. Although most of them were the daughters of the middle class, they flouted middle-class values. They shrugged off their chaperones, danced suggestively, and openly flirted with boys. "Flappers prized style over substance, novelty over tradition, and pleasure over virtue."
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