Kim W5TIT wrote:

Dwight, I don't know how it is where you are, but here there is no one
willing to do the work a lot of our immigrant population are willing to
do--and do.

I remember many times asking my teen-aged son to go get a job and, when he'd
retort with, "there aren't any jobs," I would mention some of the things I
knew were available: farm work (building fences, etc.); any fast food chain,
stock clerk, etc. He was indignant, at best, when he thought his mother
would suggest such a thing to her own son...that was not work he was about
to go do.

You don't want him working in a Wal Mart, do you ;-)

One thing these low paying crap jobs teach to teenagers is that they should
go to college and graduate so that they can get good jobs that pay well.
Before I graduated college (BSEE) I was worthless on the job market.
Then when graduation was only months away, my value suddenly went
up. And except for the past year or so (I'm voting for the Democrat
candidate,
whoever that might be), my value has been pretty good.

Just be sure that your son majors in something employers want to hire
(not much market for "Ancient Greek Physiology") that makes the trip
to college worthwhile.


Now, I meet adults with the same attitude. I am very thankful for that part
of my community with people who are willing to take on the immense task of
the "physical labor" jobs that many of us wouldn't be caught doing. Very
thankful indeed, for no one else would do them.

Well, I do mow my own lawn.....