Profit.

[SemiAuto]

A bit of an interview with an organic farmer.

[SoSad]

That's a bit scary coming from that level of education.

[kudzu]

What, no underpants Gnomes ?

[ms maggie]

Why a load of crap. Self righteous idiots. They want a medal or some sort of dewy eyed adulation from these kids? And why would somebody saying they want to work for a non-profit make this fool angry?

People she assumes diss her career and ain't it awful. But she can trash other people's choices?

Jesus I hate stupid people.

[SemiAuto]

Why a load of crap. Self righteous idiots. They want a medal or some sort of dewy eyed adulation from these kids? And why would somebody saying they want to work for a non-profit make this fool angry?

People she assumes diss her career and ain't it awful. But she can trash other people's choices?

Jesus I hate stupid people.

I don't think she is expecting some sort of dewy eyed adulation but rather a more concrete answer than a non-profit based on the absurd notion that profit is bad.

[ms maggie]

I don't think she is expecting some sort of dewy eyed adulation but rather a more concrete answer than a non-profit based on the absurd notion that profit is bad.

What in the article suggests these kids think profit is bad? Sounds like a head case.

These kids are looking to make a couple of bucks in the summer and this dingbat decides it's her job to educate them on the profit motive? You have a summer job when you were a kid? Can you picture this? I am fairly certain every menial job I had in high school and college, my boss did not give a **** what economic views I held.

It's another imagined slight from the victim crowd.

[kudzu]

It's another imagined slight from the victim crowd.

Like women as victims, you mean...

[flyboy56]

What in the article suggests these kids think profit us bad? Sounds like a head case.

These kids are looking to make a couple of bucks in the summer and this dingbat decides it's her job to educate them on the profit motive? You have a summer job when you were a kid? Can you picture this?

It's another imagined slight from the victim crowd.

"Human communication is 20% verbal and 80% non-verbal so if you are saying something to a person but your body language says the opposite then you're not getting your message across."

Must have been more going on in the interview that is not being communicated in the article.

[ms maggie]

"Human communication is 20% verbal and 80% non-verbal so if you are saying something to a person but your body language says the opposite then you're not getting your message across."

Must have been more going on in the interview that is not being communicated in the article.

What kind of body language says"I don't value the profit motive?"

Honestly.

[Calamari]

Story kind of sounds like self-aggrandizing BS.

[demopublican]

How many of you have hire 18-25 year old kids? And not the top 5% super stars. I am talking about regular kids.

[kudzu]

What kind of body language says"I don't value the profit motive?"

Honestly.

Chicks.

[SemiAuto]

What in the article suggests these kids think profit is bad? Sounds like a head case.

These kids are looking to make a couple of bucks in the summer and this dingbat decides it's her job to educate them on the profit motive? You have a summer job when you were a kid? Can you picture this? I am fairly certain every menial job I had in high school and college, my boss did not give a **** what economic views I held.

It's another imagined slight from the victim crowd.

It is right smack in the middle of it.

But then I’ll say: What do you want to do when you are done with college? And they’ll say: Oh, I want to work for a non-profit. And that one makes me angry. First, it’s like, well, non-profit, that could be a hospital, that could be a–like you haven’t thought about this any more–that could be a land trust, it could be anything. ‘Non-profit’ is huge. You don’t have any more direction than that you want to work for a non-profit? But also, they are telling me that profit is bad.

[flyboy56]

What kind of body language says"I don't value the profit motive?"

Honestly.

Eye's rolling? Flinching? You can't tell when your kids don't like what you are saying without saying it?

[flyboy56]

It is right smack in the middle of it.

I'm not sure the interviewer actually meant they said they were against profit. I think she assumed they were against profit because they told her they wanted to work for a non profit outfit. Just my guess.

[kandace]

Oh please. If these kids have directly or indirectly had a negative experience with profit mongerers, they don't want to be lectured by a dingbat farmer.

[flyboy56]

Oh please. If these kids have directly or indirectly had a negative experience with profit mongerers, they don't want to be lectured by a dingbat farmer.

Gathering from the article these kids haven't been exposed to much of anything. Maybe they'd be happier going to Venezuela and work on a non profit community farm.
The Community Farms Program

"If you want to farm, are concerned about farmland disappearing, and want to help build healthy, local food systems, you know there are some real challenges facing farmers and communities.

Community farms are part of the solution. They can help address some of these challenges.

A community farm is a multi-functional farm where the land is held "in trust" for community rather than owned privately. A community group or co-operative governs the land use agreements, and agricultural uses of the land are shared by a community of farmers. The primary focus of a community farm is local food production using sustainable agricultural practices."

http://www.communityfarms.ca/

[Joy in Mudville]

It is right smack in the middle of it.

No, that's his interpretation of their desire to work for a non-profit. They don't actually say profit is bad.

What they are saying is that they want to do something positive for society, make the world a better place, et cetera. That could be anything from Greenpeace to Doctors Without Borders to a legal aid society.

I would much rather see a bunch of kids telling me that they want to work for non-profits than a bunch of kids telling me they want to work for Goldman Sachs but that's just me.

[downhome]

I suspect Ms Turner has forgotten what it's like to be a kid who needs to earn gas money or a college student who hasn't had life kick them in the rear end yet.

[dogstarman]

There is a LOT more to the motivation of anyone's career than profit. It is perhaps unfair to take the kids' desire to work in a "non-profit" at face-value. What I think they're really saying is that they would like to work in a meaningful career and to do "good ." Yes, that is vague, but then folks in their teens and early twenties still have a lot to learn about the world and how they fit in.

I think it is really nice that this farmer hires young people in their first "real" job. It could be a lot worse than an organic farm.