The World Needs Ditch Diggers Too
I have long complained that we have grown a generation of kids who don’t want to do hard work, I blame myself along with other parents who want a better life for their kids, but we have made a huge miscalculation. We need white kids to learn hard work, it’s what they do after is the objective we should have embraced. It may be too late.
When you start looking at the data, it is not hard to see why upper middle class whites favor open borders. They don’t work in the trades. Their kids will not even work summers in the trades. Heck, middle class kids no longer work summers. That’s for the plebes. On the other hand, upper middle class people need their toilets fixed and their houses repaired. At the same time, it is easy to see why the public is turning on immigration. Despite what the people on TV believe, America is not 30-something beautiful people living in swank urban enclaves. Most people are related to one of those guys busting up the sidewalks outside my office.
Still, demographics and immigration does not explain why the trades are getting gray. It is not easy to be a carpenter or a steamfitter. Welding is a lot more involved than working in a government office. To be a competent carpenter you need math skills, problem solving skills, in addition to physical skills. The young people with something on the ball are discouraged from going into the trades, while they are encouraged to head off to college. At some point, that has to change. keep reading
3 thoughts on “The World Needs Ditch Diggers Too”
Oh boy can I relate.
When we were kids we were expected to work.
I can remember digging a 18 inch deep ditch completely around a huge house for my uncle and putting the sand and gravel, then the drain pipes and filling it in for his downspouts.
Pulling stumps, check.
Knuckle busting shit.
My wifes 16 year old thinks mowing the grass is hard work and requires large amounts of drama to get accomplished.
That whole generation of spoiled brats is going to get a real eye opener when they hit the job market.
They are lazy and spoiled rotten, you can’t teach them anything because they won’t pay attention long enough to learn even the basics.
Reality is a bitch kiddies.Welcome to my world, here is your shovel, start digging, lunch is at noon.
I have done some nasty jobs in my day and I have a good work ethic.
These kids don’t even know what ethics are.
Phil – The only thing you can do is teach your kids. I am as much to blame as anyone.
Hey, Phil, Kids today not only do not know what ethics are, they can’t even spell the word. But, then, when we are saddled with a president who has no ethics at all, at all, then we can’t expect our kids to be any better. The only way to make these lazy kids better would be to take away their cell phones and their computer games and give them an ultimatum: Shape up or ship out.