There are damned few Baby Boomers left where I work. I may not be the oldest person there but I'm definitely in the top five.

Most people don't dream about holding an entry level job? Really? No shit? As Cannoli pointed out, there's a reason why we call it work. If it was supposed to be fun, we wouldn't have needed a different word for it. As to your specific example, I had a friend who started flipping burgers at McDonald's for minimum wage when he was in high school. He busted his ass and climbed the ladder to shift lead, assistant manager, store manager, regional manager, and retired early as an owner of multiple stores.

Automation replacing new hires is what happens when you force business owners to pay higher wages than a unskilled position deserves.