Re: Todays youth

Posted by NCWayne on June 08, 2015 at 07:13:43 from (173.188.169.54):

In Reply to: Todays youth posted by sparktrician on June 08, 2015 at 06:05:38:

I'm in the same position myself. My problem is that the jobs I tend to do wind up covering several different areas, from shop, or portable machine work, to hydraulics troubleshooting, to electrical, be it design and wiring a machine to troubleshooting an existing circuit. I know of several older guys, like myself, in the area that are good at what they do, but none of them that I know of cover as wide of a spread of things as I do. Some of them I've seen in the field have younger guys working with them, and the majority of them are idiots, at least based on what I have seen.

The sad thing, and I don't know what to call it, but the lazy, entitled, ???????? way of thinking has even invaded the dealerships. I was talking to one the other week who was working on an articulated, off road, haul truck. He had the cab raised and had just finished changing out the main hydraulic pump. Man the job he had was a breeze, as raising the cab opened up everything wide open. Still he was complaining about having to get on his knees to work on this or that. How these machines were such a PITA to work on....even though EVERYTHING I could see was right in front of you once the cab was out. Heck, even if you had to pull the engine or transmission, all it would have taken was unhooking about 10 lines and a wiring harness from the cab and setting it out of the way. Basically one of the most open, easiest to get to and maintain machines I've ever seen....but he still complained..... I'd hate to have heard him if he';d been lying on his back changing a line on a 943 CAT, or up inside a crane trying to get the friction bands out of the drums.

The guy also had a brand new truck which I was looking at and commenting on, as they had incorporated some really nice things into it that I'd like to incorporate on mine eventually. I commented on the capacity of his crane, which was something like 10,000 lbs. His reply was that his last truck had a bigger crane, but that he liked the smaller one. I asked why, and he said it was because now they wouldn't send him out to work on the big stuff. Personally I like the big stuff. That aside, if your going to work in the field of construction equipment repair, you'd better be able to work on the big stuff, given that much of it is big stuff. I'd much rather be on something that is big and open enough to work on, like the truck he was working on, than to get stuck squeezing my way inside a machine that barely has room for me to fit my arm, much less half my body.

I also had a young guy stopped and asked me about a job about a year ago. He said he had one kid with his ex, and another on the way with his girlfriend, and really needed to work. I told him I'd give him a call when I had something. Several weeks later, he called me and asked if anything had come up. At the time I actually did need someone, and had been planning to call him. I had also asked around and been told by a few folks that knew of him, that he was a good kid, and that seemed to have the want to, and ability to learn. So, I told him that if he could be at the house on Saturday that I would give him a shot, and he said that was good with him. Saturday morning roles around and I get a call that his girlfriend's mom, grandma, somebody, was being admitted to the hospital and that he would try to get over, but it might be later in the day. I was OK with that and told him just to call and let me know what was going on. I never got a call back. I gave him one more shot and called him several days later and left a message just saying I was curious as to what happened, and that if he was still interested in working to give me a call. That's been over a year, and still no phone call..........

Like you have said, finding anyone who even wants to learn, much less work now days is near impossible. Yes there are a few out there, but even then weeding through the ones that don't "know everything" and want to be paid more than I pay myself when all they have going for them is a few years of tech school, and the ones that actually want to learn, is a near impossible task.

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