Mr. GG2 tried to pass along his DIY skills to his son but the kid just was not interested.
There may be some hope - I take my truck to a lot of car shows in the summer, and the young people that attend these events are super nice, know a bit about automobiles and want to learn more, plus they are very courteous and respectful.
Hard to believe, especially since we have YouTube — the greatest DIY resource ever invented. For any DIY job, I now consult YouTube first.
What a load of dung. Really? You mean to tell me 93% of those hippies who had babies in 1969 had tools? Seriously, most of us who started a family barely had nice dishes when the first child arrived. You acquired these tools over time, on an as-needed basis.
This is yet again another hit piece on Millenials, designed to make weak old Democrats and compromised Republicans feel morally superior to young folk. As I've said repeatedly, most Millenials I know are peeved at their pod-eating snowflake brethren and are working feverishly on their career. Further, every generation starts out lib and eventually grows up - something Boomers and GenXers seem to forget.
I suspect Millenials will turn out in larger-than-expected numbers for Trump in 2020. If anyone is indoctrinated, it is the author of this piece.
Not too long ago I saw a program on the building of the Empire State Building.
One thing which got my attention is they said that the builders used a method which was actually stronger than what we use today. They used red hot nuts and bolts which shrunk when cooled.
They also built it under budget and ahead of schedule.
Reading the history of a WWII Combat Engineer Battalion, they put a bridge across the Rhine in two days while under artillery fire. They built two mess halls for the Potsdam Conference in 6 days despite having to scrounge for building materials from destroyed buildings.
They were not messing around.
And since Marx, Engels, Lenin, Mao, Castro, and Sanders have never written about the need for spare parts and maintenance, every breakdown of machines, autos, etc must be sabotage by counter-revolutionaries, i.e. fascists.
My hubby is a Gen X child of older parents (greatest generation) who have long passed BUT taught my hubby EVERYTHING. He can build or fix ANYTHING and I mean EVERYTHING, car, house from the ground up (watched him and participated in building a two story garage from scratch). You name it.
I’m a late baby boomer and my father was NOT handy. Poor European that achieved “white collar” status as an insurance salesman. We lived in apartments all our lives.
Hubby’s brainwashed children by his liberal ex-shrew COULD be learning all his skills, but she’d rather them work part time on a food truck and do drugs the rest of the time.
They are definitely Generation Tide Pod and wouldn’t know the business end of a hammer as they were purposely alienated from their father.
A lot of these Millennials are in a similar situation—children of divorce and doted on because their helicopter parents parented by guilt; trying to keep them sealed in bubble wrap; competing with each other as to who could be their kid’s BFF and not their parent.
“more than half of millennials prefer to call a professional”
I’m a millennial. Main source of prosperity, buying and fixing and flipping real estate.
I do what I can, but I’m under 100 pounds and I don’t trust my little hands with power tools. I can repair and fix lots of things but you can waste a heap of time and energy, and wind up with poor results, if you don’t call a pro.
Usually the hardest challenge I face is getting the pro to be where he promised and when.
Also, what I don’t know and what doesn’t take male strength, can usually be learned from youtube.
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
-Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
Millennials don’t want to buy houses or cars or anything that requires fixing. If the phone breaks just buy a new one.
my husband is 60, his dad was not handy, never did anything around the house. Husband did not p/u any skills, and has no desire to do so. It’s not just the young’ins!
I’m a dad to many and I started as a boomer dad in 1988 and now I’m still dad with three of my five under adulthood
I’ve watched
Older boomer parents
Mid boomer parents
Young boomer parents
Gen X
And now whatever Gen Y and Millenials are
Parents my oldest kids ages of whom one my 28 year old daughter is a mom to two now
There are exceptions and quite a few in the south but there is no question female authority in the home has gone up exponentially since I was a boy in the 60s
And it was incremental increasing each generation to now where women drive their husbands around in the planet friendly car and men have even become physically less imposing and with much much less free testosterone
Females run for the most part black households now universally except on tv commercials
One may ask now how is it now with white households where the fathers influence is so diminished and often voluntarily since boys are raised this way with mom as shot caller
It’s a dichotomy I guess
Girls are easy sex now yet you must sorta acquiesce to their role and demands more
I don’t think it’s good.
I know how men and women perform under stress and I know how boys in particular need a close good male guide
I cannot imagine not having the ones I had in my dad and his dad even though my grandpa died when I was young his legacy looked large forever even now
I’ve tried to do the same...lead by perseverance and strength
Women need a strong man too going it alone or with a subservient boy man is tough
Feminism has truly been responsible for more damage than any cultural marker
It enabled homosexuality and has damaged the family badly
Of course women now have wonderful self validating and fulfilling careers
Was it worth it
Of course, as technology advances and society becomes more specialized, our ideas of what the average householder needs to know how to do and have changes. Moreover it is essentially an upper-middle-class thing to call in pros to do those sorts of tasks and chores. As more Americans climb up to the middle and upper middle rungs of society, away from manual labor themselves, it is natural that more would do so.
But yeah, a lot of Millennials of all types—male or female, married with children or not, are not very hard working by the standard of previous generations. Many of them don’t hold a first job until they are in their 20s and even at that it is a free or almost free internship, so expectations are very, very low.
Thin isn’t just millennials. I have a couple buddies who do handyman housework / mid-scale renovations, and their schedules are crazy packed, maybe two months out to schedule anything more than a couple hours of work. And a lot of their clients aren’t millennials, they’re older folks (40s or 50s) who don’t want to spend the time or effort. They’ve gotten well into their careers, and their time is more valuable to them to be with kids or spouse/friends. They don’t want to do alot of work.
But, yes, it used to be that the younger adults were the most DiY. Millennials do buch that trend and more match older generations concurrently and don’t do as much nowadays.
I helped with a lot of DIY as a kid. Never struck me as very fun. Lousy to spend a weekend. I do a little, but very little. Anything that will take more than half an hour I’d rather pay somebody. I own the stuff on their list though. OK not a cordless drill, corded, no charging, no BS.
Replacing items in a computer has replaced working on cars.
I just replaced a fan, memory and hard drive in the 2010 MacBook Pro. Now it runs like a dream.