You aren’t wrong! There’s a huge gap in all of the skilled labor trades, because the schools stopped teaching kids about hard work years ago. They push kids to go to college and rack up debt because they’re feeding them into a perpetual cycle of desk jobs and misery. The boom in the tech industry is most likely to blame, although nowadays the skilled labor shortage has driven wages up to the point where some of the trades pay better than doctors and lawyers. All without the need to go to college for eight years and burden yourself with a mountain of debt. Hard work is good for the body as much as it is for the mind, and it’s way more rewarding at the end of the day to visibly see an accomplishment vs sitting in a cubicle staring at a screen all day. I learned early on how to work on vehicles and was a mechanic for 15 years, I now manage a warehouse and handle all incoming and outgoing deliveries by myself. It’s a physical job but I don’t mind it one bit because I get paid to exercise. I picked up tile work for a while too and added that skill to my set. I can handle carpentry to a degree but due to a crippling fear of heights I never perused it as a trade. Yeah the younger generations are in trouble but it’s not entirely their fault. The real culprit is society and the education system. More kids need exposure to trade schools and vocational schools and way less screen time. Although I feel a little bit of hypocrisy typing this from a smartphone.
When a contractor calls me to dig drainage or get on a roof, he knows i hate doing that, and i have a back that hurts 24/7 already.
But he also knows i do things right, and can move a LOT of earth in a short amount of time in a place a bobcat cant go. And i know how to do the job without being babysat. And he pays me around 20/hr no quesions asked, cash under table for that because he has no one else that doesnt cost him even more in time lost eslewhere.
Its pretty sad when your general young person population cant even correctly
dig a ditch. So you are being payed 20/hr cash to do the job so the contractor can save some money. I actually feel bad for the contractor i underbid for that deck, i work for him sometimes lol.
Agriculture and farming industries are hurting bad too. You can take full vocational school courses for practical horticulture of several types from large scale agriculture to greenhouse management for next to nothing in many places now, massively exapnds your knowledge base of plants and cultivation in general and i recommend them to every single new grower that sends me a DM hoping itll peak their interest in more then just growing their drug of choice lol. (And i mean no offense to newer growers, thats why most start growing, they enjoy the plant as a consumed substance for its side effects lol, im just callin it likes i see's it. Theres no real interest in actual horticulture or the trade skills, but i do my best to push young people in that direction, some of these young people often being older then myself lol.)
I treat old electronics knowledge, vacuum tube tech, old solid state transitor based tech the same way. Its important knowledge and skill to maintain and tranmit into the future.
We'll make do fine as a species without more Lawyers and accountants and politicians. We won't without skilled workers that value their skill and experience. Our species is honestly probably a bit doomed without that.
View attachment 2206403This nl2 middle doesn’t seem to like the increase in led light .
Some plants are weird one way or the other. Just seems to be how it is.
that post brought back some good memories as that piece was with me from 1977 to 2013 and I miss it
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it's loooooovin it lol. It's got that "im happy gimme more" leaf reach going on. Not that "it's to hot i need more air" leaf reach going on lol. Deep emerald green. I have it on a tiny plynth like 10"off the panel now, its green got even happier when i did.
