Choices in life

ozzy69

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Some of us have been given opportunities that most would love to have. I'm sitting in my warm truck while I watch my two laborers try to locate utilities so we don't hit them. One is 20 years old and the other is 60 years old I'm hoping the 20 year old is paying attention to what he is looking at.

My trade is something I enjoy. But when it comes to work I do my fair share of it when the time calls for it.

I'm hoping the kid is realizing that a 60 yr old laborer is an oddity and that he needs to save his money and prepare for a future without a shovel
 
Have "the talk" with the 20 year old. He may or may not listen, but he'll never forget the wise words you share to him....even if he doesn't realize it until later.

Great thread, and very true!
 
I like this. Great analogy. A lot of times it is easy for the 20yr old to see but does he really comprehend. Each day seems to go faster the older I get.
 
There are a lot of "trainees" at my work. Most of them are willing to work and learn and some of them work damn hard. Some of them I've had to keep in check. One in particular is a good mechanic and he is gonna be really good at this one day. I had to really get in his shit one day about a year ago. He was mad at me for a few days but I think he realizes now. I think at the end of the year he will have reached the experience requirements to take the tests for his mechanics license and I would be more than happy to sign him off to do so.

It seems that in this day and age the kids think they are owed. I've worked since I was about 10yrs old. My dad made sure that I understood what it means to do a good job no matter how much I'm paid. That's what I try to pass along to the kids at work.
 
It really seems hard to find younger people willing to put in the time doing the grunt work, learn, and work their way up. They come out of college or trade school and think they will have it all at their first professional job.
 
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I'm an inspector so I'm paid to stand and sit around too. After we do the initial inspection on the airplane we just take mechanics calls. I'm just glad that I'm not wrenching anymore. Not that I cant do it, my mind is perfectly capable but my hands don't want to cooperate anymore...
 
Have "the talk" with the 20 year old. He may or may not listen, but he'll never forget the wise words you share to him....even if he doesn't realize it until later.

Great thread, and very true!
words of wisdom never sounded so clear...in this thick headed 46yr old washed up asswipe.i got the "talk" when in my 20s."hahahaha,who me,worry t 60?i'll be retired at 45 not like you old fokkers."now at 46 i'm working till the day they toss dirt on my chest and still owe them bastads some paper.if i only listened then.now i find myslelf giving the same EXACT speeches to kids of my then 20 something oh so wise age.if i only knew i keep telling myself.46 and still working like a slave when by all rights if i listened,didn't party my career-not my job my career-away n piss it down the terlet or spike it up both arms,legs,groin...i'd be on a beach from one of the few properties i owned in pompano Beach with the now Ex wifey.so dumb n full of cum back then you couldn't tell me jack shit.make this kid listen BMJ,if not by intellect then by sheer choking his ass out force lol.that'll learn him sumthin gooder than what he knows now.i know i would've loined bruttha man...roc.
 
i got married really young and had a couple of kids. A woman and 2 kids will spend every dime. I make good coin but i think it's pretty safe to say that I will be doing some sort of work until the day I drop dead.
 
you guys remind me of myself..no pension,no savings,no 401k.santa is broke again this year.
 
I could start a thread titled bad choices in life and write all night. I could start another one called good choices in life and someone else would need to do the posting.
 
most people don't realize the opportunities they have presented to them until after the fact...myself included
 
Well the kid I was talking about is a moron he just bought a 14K dollar snowmobile and can't afford the stuff he has now. Gonna suck if he gets laid off for the winter
 
Humanity's on the verge of annihilation. The one thing you can count on, he won't be holding a shovel when he's 60.
 

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