Title: "Of youth and Age"

By: Sir Francis Bacon

Central Argument

Youths are the ones that should be hired for jobs as they are young and have fresh ideas.

In the essay called “Of Youth and Age” by Francis Bacon, the youth group is strongly supported for being imaginative at a young age. I like many other people will have to agree with this statement because youths have more energy, and are ready to take up challenges. In this age you do not think about the consequences you just do what you can without thinking twice about it.This is the age of love, career, experimentation and see the world in new ways. This age group are young and therefore not yet corrupted with the world around them. They think on their own and have a life that is filled with new things everyday. Being a teenager, I know why youths have so much energy and why they would make perfect for any kind of job. As you grow up you see and learn more about the world, so by the time you are older you know much about the world. However, if you are a youth, you have just come to know the world. You do not know get involved with other politics of life, and therefore you want to know more and experience different things.

The Romantics favorite age groups was youth, because this is the age group where all the excitement of life takes place. This group comes up with new ideas, and are ready to take risks. This is what employers want to hire, people that are ready get things done with speed and efficiency. Youths have this in themselves. They do not think too much about the work. They hurry up and get things done. Whereas, an older man or a women will take their time making decisions, and worrying about their future. An older person may not be able to work at a very high speed. With the world getting so much more competitive, employers need young people to do their work at a high speed. Youths do not make rational decisions, and therefore the employers can easily exploit them at any point of the youth career; this also makes then the perfect age group to hire.

Just getting out of some kind of education, youths are also filled with knowledge. They want to try different things and work on different experiments. Youths are the ones that are going to provide the rest of the world new products, and various kinds of technology. This is the kind of workers employers want to hire, someone that can give them new products that will sell in the market. The older generation in today's world are not that efficient with computers as a youth might be. Employers are constantly wanting to upgrade to the level of societies standards, and the younger generation are the perfect people to do such a job.