LTZ25
Senior Member
I'm thinking most millennials on this site are more rounded average one .
Slips sticks are just artifacts now.
You know its funny. I am 34 and have been in the paint and body industry for most of my life with the exception of a couple of different jobs. I started when I was 12. I recently realized the toll all the chemicals take on the human body. I made the switch to painting high end office furniture in a warehouse. It's hard work and long hours but much better on the respiratory system. Anyway I was looking around the warehouse the other day and I noticed that with the exception of myself and two others. Everyone is late 40's and older. It also dawned on me that a majority or close to retiring. What it seems to me is the younger generation has gotten away from hard work and doesn't want to get their hands dirty. It also made me realize that companies such as the one I work for are going to have a hard time replacing those folks when. They retire. Makes me wonder how a company will survive the future with out a steady work force.
My dear niece (with a diploma from a school I'll not mention) lives 20 miles from her Grand Mother's house. All she has to do is take a left out of her apartment complex, drive for 19 1/2 miles and take the next left after crossing the county line, then 1/2 mile and take a left into the drive way. SIMPLE! Can't manage it with out her phone telling her the directions STEP BY STEP! And she grew up in the house I'm talk'n about.
WHEN there is a "zombie" problem, it'll be her and all the rest of this generation walk'n the planet in droves TAKING what they need and can't supply for them selves.
The truth right there.In 2018, there are literally hundreds of thousands of web pages out there showing anyone with half a brain how to do anything they want to do. The problem isn't that nobody showed these kids how to do anything, the problem is these kids expect to be spoon fed every bit of information they think they should know and assume someone is giving them what they need.
My dad never worked on cars and I never took much interest in his fixing things around the house because I was too busy chasing crawdads in the creek and building forts in the woods. When I got my jeep and things started breaking that I couldn't afford to pay someone else to fix, I hopped online, watched a few videos, asked questions on forums, and I figured it out. I've replaced dang near everything on that jeep in the last 8 years, by myself, learning by hunting down the information I needed.
Same with cooking. Momma loves to bake but always leaned heavily on dinner that came from boxes and cans and the freezer because we didn't seem to care. I got a taste for fancier stuff and more variety in my diet once I got out on my own and I looked up recipes and how tos and applied basic principles from certain recipes to my own concoctions that turned out pretty good.
This generation wants to be spoon fed, and they need to be taught to go fend for themselves and track down answers instead.
It also made me realize that companies such as the one I work for are going to have a hard time replacing those folks when. They retire. Makes me wonder how a company will survive the future with out a steady work force.