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Post by BearCreekLapidary on Feb 22, 2005 9:48:43 GMT -5
Hello everyone! I have been extremely busy trying to get my wife's Ceramics business moved to town! I have been working at getting the 12,000+ molds into town and everything else that went along with the sale. In the last three days we (a 18 year old kid and myself) have loaded some 5,000 molds into two tractor trailer loads. I tell you what ... work ethics of kids these days is something else! I have put this kid through the ringer and back ... as a matter of fact after the first day ... he did not want to come back to work with me ;D His dad brought him back out and made him work I am 42 years old and I literally ran circles around this young kid!!! Surely, it should have been the other way around ... shouldn't it? We are just about half way through with the move and another two truck loads and we should be very close to being done. I am trying to get the molds moved as fast as possible. You see ... when this is done ... I get to move into the garage and set up my "shop" . I will have all of my saws and some rough in the garage. The rest of the rough will be seperated and arranged in my 24' x 32' building that is currently still full of ceramic molds . I would never admit this to the kid ... but, it feels like I have been beat with sledge hammers and my arms are throbbing with pain! As long as it doesn't move into my chest ... I think I will be fine ;D I just act like ti doesn't even bother me ... when the kid is around! He keeps asking me "How come you are not sore? Don't you hurt at all?" .. I just look at him and smile and tell him "this isn't work ... sore? are you serious?". I am the one that is lifting them and walking them all the way to the truck and putting them on the back of a tractor trailer (covered box type) ... all he has to do is put them on a pallet (where he has to lift them some 3 to 4 inches off of the floor at first and then higher as we build the pallet up). I thought about having him bring me the molds ... but, I don't want his dad to bring him back out to work again ;D. As soon as we get caught up, I will get back to the board! Wish the kid luck! John
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stubby
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Post by stubby on Feb 22, 2005 10:05:51 GMT -5
John,
Most kids have really great hand to eye coordination (playstation) these days, but have a definite problem with physical labor. It amazes me what counts as "play" these days. I'm always surprized when I take my kids sledding. Kids don't go sledding anymore! They are at home playing games or watching "reality" on TV.
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phoenix1647
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Post by phoenix1647 on Feb 22, 2005 10:11:00 GMT -5
I feell for ya John...getting good help now days is like pulling teeth from a chicken......
Pho
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Post by sandsman1 on Feb 22, 2005 10:19:40 GMT -5
hahaha i hear ya john at 18 i was doin cement work with an old italian guy that didnt speak english and believe me i worked from sunup to sundown but the money was good so i was allways there hahaha
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stefan
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Post by stefan on Feb 22, 2005 10:54:27 GMT -5
Oh man My 17 yr old is on his 10 th job in almost 2 yrs- I did not raise him like that- But he pays for his own car (and the tickets that go with it) and insurance- And I informed him that there was no way I was paying for college up front (he carries a barly passing average) I told him I would REimburse him for As and Bs and NOTHING ELSE! Man when I was his age I was working at a campground cleaning toliets all summer and splitting wood all winter- The pay sucked- the work sucked but I could work 50 to 60 hours a week so I had MONEY! He flips burgers for 4 hours and comes home ALL EXHAUSTED! Not sure where I went wrong with this one?
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Banjocreek
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Post by Banjocreek on Feb 22, 2005 10:59:00 GMT -5
Well good luck John. I have to agree with you on the work ethic some folks have (or lack of it). I don't even want to go there. The goal line is not far off! You con do eet!! ;D You probably won't want to see another mold in quite some time, eh?
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Post by Cher on Feb 22, 2005 11:15:12 GMT -5
Hoping all the pain, (including the 18 yo) is soon gone. ;D In other words, hope it goes well and you're done soon.
Cher
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Post by William C on Feb 22, 2005 13:17:28 GMT -5
Greetings All,
When I was 16 to 20 my dad had me work construction in the summers, I had to be at the job site by 6:00 A.M. The job site was a few miles out-of town so during the last month and a half of my first summer I started staying out at the construction site at night, as a pseudo-security guard. So I would sleep there in my car, get up around 5:00 A.M. when the first subcontractors showed up, drive home to shower et. al., drive back to get to work at 6:00, work until 3:00, do whatever for a few hours then get back out to the site by 9:00 P.M. or so (exactly when wasn't as important as not lying about being there when I wasn't, another guy got fired for doing that). Needless to say I had some good parties out at the construction site, driving the fork-lift around and playing my stereo (which I brought from home and stored in a shack during the day), and I even had some romantic evenings as well. I'll never again have a job like I did when I was 16, working all day and getting paid to party, play, passion and sleep all night. Those were the days, and if I remember correctly from 25 years later I actually knew how lucky I was at the time. Ah nostalgia...
WilliamC
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Banjocreek
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Post by Banjocreek on Feb 22, 2005 13:26:22 GMT -5
Good to hear from you again William! Yes the days; When I was 25 I could work hard all day and I remember the play and passion at night. But now its either one or the other. ;D
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Post by SirRoxalot on Feb 22, 2005 14:53:23 GMT -5
Todays kids are nothing but whining little pissants that are afraid to work.
I got my first job in the coal mines when I was six years old. That was some job. I walked 35 miles just to get to work, uphill both ways, through rain, snow, sleet, swamps, tornadoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, killer bees, you name it, it never slowed me down none.
The workday started at 4:00 AM and shifts were 35 hours long. We worked eight days a week, 40 days a month, 450 days a year. No weekends or holidays or sick days for us, nosir; the only time off we ever got was ten minutes on Sunday, to go to church and then get your chores done.
Lunch was black coffee made from wood shavings, and bread made from old newspapers, and you were glad to git it! Boy, I got home sore, tired, and coughing up blood, but was damn happy to even have a job. And as soon as I got home it was time to go back to work. I didn't complain none, that's just how we lived back then. You had to do what you had to do.
And God help you if you ever talked about "worker safety" or "trade unions", or thought the tunnels should be timbered so they'd stop caving in all the time. If you tried any of that Commie horse puckey back in my day, you'd get a good punch in the mouth, and you'd like it. Try organizing a strike or any other hippy crap and you'd get accidentally tossed down a two thousand foot deep mine shaft, and it'd serve you right for being a whining pinko malingerer.
Kids today sure need to toughen up, I tell you what.
SirRoxalot
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Post by guest on Feb 23, 2005 3:59:40 GMT -5
Too many whiners!!
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stefan
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Post by stefan on Feb 23, 2005 8:37:38 GMT -5
SIrroxalot- LMAO- Have you ever been to that coal mine village just outside Hazelton PA? You were not to far off your discription!
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Post by creativeminded on Feb 23, 2005 8:51:15 GMT -5
I know what it is like moving, when I was a traveling therapist, I want all my own dishes and video tapes and many other things that I really didn't need, plus I was traveling with someone that didn't like to help. I would do this every 2 to 6 months depending on how long the contract lasted, and I did that for several years. Good luck on the move, it will be worth it in the end. Tami
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chassroc
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Post by chassroc on Feb 23, 2005 12:54:02 GMT -5
Give the kid a break!
Seriously, parents are so permissive these days and kids usually don't need to work and parents don't push them neither. Lots of parents hire someone to do the manual work around the house, the painting, the mowing, the snow shoveling, the car repair, etc. Kids don't get to learn how to do things themselves...
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Post by WarrenA on Feb 23, 2005 22:36:36 GMT -5
I have a sideline auto detail business and have employed many kids over the years.1 is still with me after 15 years and every time I have to get another assistant it is a struggle. I am almost 50 and work rings around most kids in my shop, they may start out fast but they lack endurance
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