Compare and contrast to Jason Greenslate below
“I believe that opportunity looks a lot like hard work,” Kutcher began with his first point. “When I was 13, I had my first job with my dad carrying shingles up to the roof, and then I got a job washing dishes at a restaurant, and then I got a job in a grocery store deli, and then I got a job at a factory sweeping Cheerio dust off the ground.”
He went on: “And I’ve never had a job in my life that I was better than. I was always just lucky to have a job. And every job I had was a stepping stone to my next job, and I never quit my job until I had my next job. And so opportunities look a lot like work.”
What a message to dare say to a crowd of teens!
And he never got a paycheck from a poor man…
it’s really hard for kids to have jobs these days cause of how food stamp brutally ass-raped the economy
And his next point was that what’s sexy is not superficial. Is this real life? Or are there celebrities with an actual clue?
Wow, even I have thrice left jobs with nothing lined up. Granted I managed to get something and never went on unemployment assistance, though the last time it got very close … but I been everything from dishwasher to chemicals blend specialist (and both jobs involve lots of water and various amounts of gooey substances) and mostly been a menial(except for a sad time as a … gasp …salesman … so embarrassing) of the type the ‘elite’ so love to denigrate while not being able to do the job themselves.
Hearing this, I’d wager Mr. Kutcher knows how to do things.
It’s discouraging to hear the screamy-screams from the girlies in the audience. They don’t seem to have a clue about what he’s saying but merely are thrilled that he stands there before him, Existing.
Damn, I was that dumb at that age.
Maybe there’s a ray of hope for our future after all.
I’m glad he mentioned having so many undesirable jobs he was young. It teaches you humility and motivates you to do what it takes to get a better job. That’s got to be part of the problem of all these precious snowflakes who spend their childhood and early adulthood so focused on themselves. They’re building up their college applications and resumes with all sorts of sports and do-gooder activities where their only focus is being the best “me” they can be instead of learning the more basic job/life skills like having to follow orders and perform mundane, thankless tasks because it’s your job, not part of some bigger helping-people-for-the-humble-glory moment, and not being particularly appreciated or compensated for your opinions.
Oh, he’s no sooper jeenyus — but he has a glimmering of a hint of a clue about real life. It may be that he claims to support Obama simply because the nice people who give him jobs now support him.
He’s a nice guy from what I’ve read about him. I think like a lot of stars, his political leanings are fashion and not deeply held convictions. I also think he went along with his ex-wife’s political leanings even though she is dumber than a sack of hammers. He was only a pup, 27, when they were married and she is at least 15 years older than him. Additionally, he has had tragedy in his life at a young age. His girlfriend before he was married to Demi Moore, was viciously murdered in her home. Kutcher stopped at her place to pick her up to go to an awards ceremony and there was no answer so he went alone. Imagine learning that your girlfriend had been butchered from a news broadcast. I wish him luck and thank him for his message to the kids.
That’s the middle of middle-America roots showing.
The depressing thing, after hearing the soundbites about “have a job and work at it” and “smart is sexy” just now on Rush, is that I think that particular audience would have cheered just as enthusiastically if he was telling them about his various surguries for hemorrhoids and hernias and varicose veins.
I eagerly await MSNBC’s 20-part expose on why this speech makes Kutcher a racist. Of course, my watching it would double its viewership.
27 isn’t a pup leigh.
Even in Obama’s America
Creative the watchword (the other watchword: democracy — every man a king). Might as well be god, since there isn’t one anywhere else. Besides, it’s a modern thing god just wouldn’t understand.
Never, however, inquire into thy own godly ignorance,
teenchildrendemocrats, lest ye find thyself staring into an abyss.I think he preach Marxism and they’d cheer him just as hard. But I still think he’s at least ethically pretty well on the ball.
Good message. I give it an 8.5.
I like it when I hear sensible-sounding stuff come from people that, media coverage considered, aren’t much more thoughtful than a chihuaha. Brad Pitt said something years ago that I liked and respected. In an NPR interview, the interviewer (my memory has her being Terry Gross) asked him about Seven Years in Tibet, and about any philosophical studying he had to do to get ready for it, and what he thought generally of the movie’s message.
And what he said was something like this: I do have an opinion, but you should realize that I’m only an actor. I don’t really understand it all that well, so my opinion in the matter is relatively worthless. This, in an era where the opinions of famous people are held to be more forceful than that of the rest of us because they’re famous, or something like that.
I really, genuinely appreciated that admission. It’s not an easy one to make, I would guess, but it was completely honest.
Well, this is a demotic age after all.
As the air we breathe.
Yep. Start out hauling shingles and next thing you know, you’re dating Mila Kunis. How sweet is that?
I was using pup as an indicator of the age chasm between Kutcher and Moore who has 15 years on him. Give or take. I believe she and I are the same age, but she keeps shaving years off and is now only 50.
Well thanks anyways for affording me the opportunity to address a pet peeve of mine.
I’m guessing Kutcher’s brief message reverberates only in people who already know how and why things (and people) work. Natural Born Slackers (and ‘Community Organized’ Obama Youths) didn’t hear a thing.
Pups can stay pups as long as somebody feeds ’em. Some people will die pups, no matter how mony tines they’ve circled the Sun.
Mony? tines? Where’s the famed Droid spell check when you needs it?
There’s that too. I’m just trying to push back at the idea that 30 is the new 21.
Oh! OT, but speaking of the Sun, this from comments at PhysOrg…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jHsq36_NTU
I like how his cap and his shirt and his other shirt all match. That doesn’t just happen you have to have your act together.
It does too just happen if everything you own is some shade of black or gray or white.
That worked for me for years.
Actually, he’s a lot smarter than the average bear and is making another fortune in technology startups.
I want to see him and Noah Wiley in Duelling Steves.
I saw Mony Tines open for Bowie in ’86.
The average bear would know there’s nothing to admire about Obama, and why.
Bears that live on the dole in national parks can be a little slow at times.