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<blockquote data-quote="brian11" data-source="post: 2611865" data-attributes="member: 112031"><p>Interesting story of older generation vs (much) younger generation. I was moving some dirt around here and had hired a 16-18 year old kid to help with the labor. Where are all the illegal aliens when you need them, but that's another story - pretty much non-existent in northern NH. Anyway, I hired this kid to help with labor. I was using the tractor bucket loader to load dirt into the 6x4 Gator bed to dump it and spread it. The tractor decided to quit running, so I grabbed a couple shovels & told the kid we'd fill the Gator bed by hand. He isn't really keeping up with the shoveling, but he is shoveling. When the bed is about 3/4 full, he starts telling me about how TIRED he is. Really? You're getting your butt kicked by someone old enough to be your grandfather? Numerous other cases like this - I am always amazed at how weak and ready to quit at the slightest tiredness today's young people are. Most aren't even willing to do any work, the few who will are worn out amazingly quickly.</p><p>In the winter, I regularly go to the town sand sheds and shovel in 3/4 of a S-10 pickup bed full of sand, then go home and shovel it out onto the icy driveway. Not a big deal at all.</p><p>OTOH, I remember my first job out of high school - with a construction company that still used lots of manual labor instead of machines. I remember coming home from my first day at it and just collapsing, utterly exhausted, on my parents' lawn as soon as I got home. </p><p>I think toughness is something acquired. You learn you can do a lot more than you thought you could.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="brian11, post: 2611865, member: 112031"] Interesting story of older generation vs (much) younger generation. I was moving some dirt around here and had hired a 16-18 year old kid to help with the labor. Where are all the illegal aliens when you need them, but that's another story - pretty much non-existent in northern NH. Anyway, I hired this kid to help with labor. I was using the tractor bucket loader to load dirt into the 6x4 Gator bed to dump it and spread it. The tractor decided to quit running, so I grabbed a couple shovels & told the kid we'd fill the Gator bed by hand. He isn't really keeping up with the shoveling, but he is shoveling. When the bed is about 3/4 full, he starts telling me about how TIRED he is. Really? You're getting your butt kicked by someone old enough to be your grandfather? Numerous other cases like this - I am always amazed at how weak and ready to quit at the slightest tiredness today's young people are. Most aren't even willing to do any work, the few who will are worn out amazingly quickly. In the winter, I regularly go to the town sand sheds and shovel in 3/4 of a S-10 pickup bed full of sand, then go home and shovel it out onto the icy driveway. Not a big deal at all. OTOH, I remember my first job out of high school - with a construction company that still used lots of manual labor instead of machines. I remember coming home from my first day at it and just collapsing, utterly exhausted, on my parents' lawn as soon as I got home. I think toughness is something acquired. You learn you can do a lot more than you thought you could. [/QUOTE]
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