The great oil filter debate

Ironracer said

Yep, I don't know if I wanna cry, or just go off everytime I think of it. It's definitely a sad scenario, that gets me slap pissed off. No wonder most the younger kids have been screwed out of a chance to actually learn a trade or skillset that lasts a life time. Heck, when I was a kid , you could at least go frame a house, or hang and finish one... that's gone also. Thanks to imported labor, for jobs "no one" wants. Even poor kids here Fl, in the 80s, and early 90s could get a job at a lawn care place.

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I have to agree, and disagree with your assessment of the jobs that are out there for young folks. There’s plenty of trade jobs out there, and companies dying for any young folks who want to work. I’ve had my son come on a bunch of jobs with me, at 14 or so, he was helping me lay tile, he’s done carpentry, stonework, drywall, and a few other areas of building. However, the problem, and everybody knows it, is that young people just don’t want to work. Oh, they want the money, they just want to do as little as possible to get it.

Here’s a pic of my son doing some tile work at the horse barn where he rides, and one of us up north jacking up a friends cottage and putting in a foundation. He was a tweenie in these pics, and yes, I pay him very well.