When I'm Old Enough, Goodbye 1962 (excerpts)

he's not going into outer space he's just blasted out of school [Music] really great man [Music] i'll call you [Music] feels pretty good though sure in my first steady job pop i remember how it was yeah mr willard from the school he called me yeah he's got some idea maybe it's not the right thing mr willard what does he know about me what does he know about work look at you gee you didn't get past the sixth grade you're doing great good job same place all your life that's important pop you told me that i think we should talk some more later when the kids are in bed i don't know uh papa bonnie said i could stop by a while uh after homework's finished oh well man that kid stops all behind me now to tell you the truth doug i don't mind homework i even like school bonnie it is different with a girl i don't see the difference you don't no i think lots of boys like school [Music] you still think it's the right thing yeah like that part-time job i had last summer look what it got me think what a full-time job's gonna mean no more part-time life for me bonnie i hope said dad i'm gonna move out too give my two brothers more room as soon as i can my family can i back the living room bonnie [Music] but look how many men in charge of big companies started this way can't wait forever can you i guess your mom and me we just hate to see you growing up so fast that's all the job's right for me okay dad we trust you just hope it's the right thing pop it's like i'm alive like i'm finally waking up [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] you're home away from home really on your own now dog thanks i think you guys helped just call on us when you want to know where something is nice hey i'm gonna buy you guys a sound from work huh paycheck uh can i get home and beat the books english test tomorrow yeah me too we got this oh i'm sorry we got this new math teacher you know you mean albert that young guy is really pushing us hey just like learning a story they finally invented a way to inject math into your bloodstream square of the iphone news come on sounds crazy we'll see you man right thanks a lot you guys huh that's okay looks good on you see ya how is it down there doug where the job where you work oh great nice guys huh yeah nice place to work clean and nice yeah i guess sure got it made well just a child huh and this room are meant to have a room alone yeah i gotta talk to my father and mother about quitting he works nights and she works days busy with all the kids i can never get the two of them together at the same time you're well little happy i don't know got an uncle keeps talking about college for me but he doesn't understand no you know when we first came to the city i was maybe four years old this uncle he gave to me a radio tube burned out one but i never had such a thing before i i carried it in my pocket just left with it at night under my pillow and it glowed no kidding it was alive i still got it but you got a lot of other ones too got a lot of equipment man if i could get a job in electronics that's not for me crummy leftover jobs that's what i'll get something i have to live with oh come on i think it's better if i take what i can get it's up to you just thinking about it makes me light up like that old radio tube you need a soda or something you sound a little empty in the head said just for that i take a rain check too anyway i have to go home and see you man yeah i'll see ya [Music] the job's going fine oh it's a little monotonous that's all but i'm looking around on my lunch hour for something better i used to talk this way about school work too maybe but now i can choose [Music] tony fine is he working oh off and on still going to get married i think so yeah what are you doing around here anyway when you quit school last year didn't you get a job in an office for a while but well you know me in english class well those guys in the offices they can't spell either so they expect me to do all the spelling forms it's a real kooky world you know [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] so we begin retraining our older men in the operating procedures of the new milo automatic sorting and filing machine as a result we will be forced immediately to let men go in order of seniorities [Music] come on boys class is over [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right next [Music] but i was gonna have homework uh you know honey i wish doug hadn't just dived out of here i think we could have worked out different courses well carlos says doug's doing great keeps changing from one job to another yes i know he's been in here for work permits according to carlos doug's really getting someplace well who knows could be sure fellas you have two minutes to finish those applications what would you say if you got a teacher who instead said i don't care how you write but be proud of what you write [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] yeah we may have something you out of high school yes sir graduate well no uh not not exactly oh no point filling this out come back in about three weeks just sloan we may be putting some extra wrappers on then and for ray and marianne here's a disc to set your feet a damn [Music] me i went to look for you today i'm sorry my folks played a real busy character huh what are you gonna do with all that bread you're making going to get a new car i don't know what a life huh come and go when you want to hey man we better get back to the floor before these bunnies hop away from us oh come on hey doug it's great to see you i'll see you man [Music] i gotta get going carlos i finally got my father and mother together it's great let's talk about it tomorrow huh goodbye linda come on [Music] doug miller how are you hi mr willa oh uh this is mrs willard good evening doug just uh looking into the dance how's your family your father real fine thanks still working at the um sheldon plant like always are you still at bolton's no i got something better coming up that's great i've been having some talks with carlos he wants to pull out start working too yeah i know doug if that new job doesn't work out why don't you drop by the state employment service ask for ralph norman yeah sure you'll like him he's been out here working with our guidance program you know talk with him tell him i sent you he'll have some ideas okay thanks doug i'll tell them you'll drop around good night doug nice meeting you i see you worked at a filling station last summer how'd you like it i uh liked the times i had a uh chance to uh help out with the motor i like cars always have mr norman i like to fix things huh sure tried to get a job in the garage sometimes one thing not even those guys want to you know doug if you had a completely free choice what would you really like to do in life get a job like my father he's quite a guy huh 20 years on the same job how often have you talked to mr woollett a couple of times maybe when he called me in why should i talk to him i wasn't here for college oh come on doug you got the wrong idea mr willard is there for everybody yeah we've been working with him to try to help you kids find the area in which you have talent things you can do that maybe you never even thought about don't even know about we know jobs we know what the employer says he need now our job is to help you see where you fit the things that you have to do nowadays to make yourself fit i know where i fit mr norman i know what i want all my life i've only wanted to get out of school and work like my father and his father what's so wrong about that times are changing doug it's different now all right i know you need a job here's a life insurance company they need men now the work's not going to be any better than your other jobs but it'll give you some money it'll fill in thanks think about what i said want to see you again thanks a lot [Music] she [Music] temporary doug had some big layoffs of the plant just doing this to fill in keep some money coming just temporary [Music] [Applause] [Music] dug it wasn't just your father they let go about a quarter of their workforce it was a tough decision but to stay competitive they had to modernize but what's going to happen how can they all of our messengers pay we're working with sheldon's personnel department we're trying to see which people can be moved up to new jobs what new training might help yeah i suppose you want my dad to go back to school too you never stop going to school you always go on learning especially now today education is the key if you want any doors to open tomorrow that's why we worry about you dropouts i'm not a dropout i just left school doug we try to line up places to send you for work we do we used to find jobs for kids as elevator operators but look at your new buildings today automatic elevators even the old buildings sure there are new jobs interesting jobs here look 60 different jobs all wide open and waiting but they all want a high school education they all want to see that lousy piece of paper you're darn right but there's more to it than just that i mean you can't just walk around dressed in a high school diploma and expect a big glad hand to reach out for you the men who do the hiring today look behind the diploma and you now you gain an awful lot in those extra couple of years it takes to earn that piece of paper just waste time no no in the shop you work with your hands in math you work with your head in english or whatever just being there for two more years learning to concentrate to work in details to finish your job why should employers take on kids who can't even finish one job one thing you can do in this changing labor market and that is to prepare yourself figure out where you want to go what exists for you what you want i want a job we can aim you at something specific doug along with part-time schooling take this booklet home take your time study it think about it i have no time mr norman i need a job you want to spend the rest of your life in some kind of a job that all right all right i have nothing today come back tomorrow morning at 10. i may have something [Music] hey kid got a cigarette for me [Music] but it just doesn't pay off anymore carlos to leave school like this i have my parents permission at least let me arrange a part-time job along with some classes you've got a great potential but not this one here's mr willard i have to go all the way now look at dog he said at the hammond plant carlos this is the time not to play follow the leader hey what did you see about a job anybody interested where i'm a plan i hear they're hiring no man i got a practice session maybe we're running to duck come on if you do say hello [Applause] [Music] don't bother kid we're not hiring anybody [Music] hey dog hey dog [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] a job isn't just a job anymore the whole crazy thing is more complicated it seems so simple no you just run around back and forth like one of those rats and one of those things at the lab at school you don't know carlos nobody knows until you're on the outside no dog i just have to look at my father in his job and i just have to look in the mirror every day and i know so don't you have to be even better prepared to run into walls ah you're an idiot carlos you like school see you're an idiot see now look you have to become what you want to become why don't you be caught like your father look at me i'm what my father is both of us it's really crazy sometimes you have no choice you always have a choice maybe the choices are lousy but there's always something to choose i had an offer man didn't need a high school education real big offer no but i had the choice and it's a pretty lousy choice between doing that and moving garbage in a plant and that's what it adds up to for me and my father so if you go down to the employment service and ask mr norman they know unskilled jobs are drying up fish and you dry up with them and you get duller and duller i was wrong carlos you don't have to be a jerk too better than your father you're a guy who can it's you man what's inside you what do you want to do i would burnt out radio tubes all your life then you come back with me why not you are not you're not such an old man come back with me that's a simple choice anymore call us not for me not sure have the guts [Music] [Music] [Music] you