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bachman:

--- Quote from: bud16415 on November 03, 2018, 09:59:10 am ---I’m 63 and my neighbor is 70. I think that explains how we got it cleaned up so fast, lol we are running out of time to work slow. Actually I think it has more to do with growing up in the age before video games. I try real hard as I get older to not sound like my grandfather or my father but I’m becoming more aware they were correct and each generation looses a bit more when it comes to work ethics. I know there are a lot of hard working young people still around and maybe it is my perspective as I get older. 

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I understand completely.
I can't say I'm one to deride an entire generation either. The younger upstarts or Millennials can't be all rated by a few examples that play into my impression but I do think technology and instant information has many thinking differently.

Expectations, shortcuts and such leave behind the essence of duty, respect for others time and property and "doing the right thing" because many things today fill in that 'It's all about me" element. It doesn't have to be this way and many kids are raised with the character and values of doing right by others. In these cases, they understand the time and energy saved by the very technology and expectations mentioned are How and Why they DO have time to help others or do the right thing.

bud16415:

--- Quote from: bachman on November 05, 2018, 07:12:22 am ---
--- Quote from: bud16415 on November 03, 2018, 09:59:10 am ---I’m 63 and my neighbor is 70. I think that explains how we got it cleaned up so fast, lol we are running out of time to work slow. Actually I think it has more to do with growing up in the age before video games. I try real hard as I get older to not sound like my grandfather or my father but I’m becoming more aware they were correct and each generation looses a bit more when it comes to work ethics. I know there are a lot of hard working young people still around and maybe it is my perspective as I get older. 

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I understand completely.
I can't say I'm one to deride an entire generation either. The younger upstarts or Millennials can't be all rated by a few examples that play into my impression but I do think technology and instant information has many thinking differently.

Expectations, shortcuts and such leave behind the essence of duty, respect for others time and property and "doing the right thing" because many things today fill in that 'It's all about me" element. It doesn't have to be this way and many kids are raised with the character and values of doing right by others. In these cases, they understand the time and energy saved by the very technology and expectations mentioned are How and Why they DO have time to help others or do the right thing.

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Before I retired I had many really smart young recently graduated from collage people working with me. One day a young engineer was talking with me as I was working on a project model on my state of the art cad system. I did something to the model that only took a second and commented when I was your age that would have taken a week to do. He said were your computers that slow back then. I said no computers were just being invented then and we had no computers we worked it all out with paper and pencil. He gave me a look like he was talking to Methuselah and said “Really”. I said no just kidding what do you think I’m 900 years old. He laughed and said you really had me going there for a second.

There is a total generation that know nothing but smart phones and computers and I think if those devices were suddenly gone would have no way of functioning in daily life.

I have always been a supporter of advancement of technology but have always viewed it from some past much harder more basic way it was done. I still remember paying 80 bucks when I was making 90 a week take home for a 4 function calculator made by TI. Bought it payroll deduction at $5 per week.

Like I said there are still people doing work by hand and always will be I hope. But even the guy digging a ditch stops and throws down his shovel when his iPhone rings or to check and see instantly what his friends are doing on facebook.   

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