WE ARE A GENERATION THAT WILL NEVER COME BACK.

When I was a machine shop supervisor there was this one kid who really wanted to learn. So each day or so I would teach him something new in the machine shop. One day after about a year and a half of me teaching him as much as he could handle he came up to me and said, "One day I'm going to know so much that I'm going to take your job!!". I laughed and said, "Well if that happens do you know what it will mean?" He said, "What will it mean?"


I said, "It will mean that I'm a damn good teacher!!" Then I continued, "But you'll also have to learn how to teach people like you snotty nosed kids!!" "Think you can handle that?" Then I went on, "By the way, I may have taught you a lot about how the machine shop works but I haven't even touched on the CNC machine programming that I do in the office while you're out here yanking your crank". "Then you still have to learn how to set up the CNC machine using the programming that you wrote". "If you crash the $150,000.00 machine because of your programming you won't be here long". He said, "Well, I'm not too good at math." I said, "Do I have to teach math as well!!!?" "If you want my job you're going to have to step up!!" The kid had a different attitude after that day, he turned out to be a pretty good machinist!!!