Good Help Is Hard To Find

New American Prophet ^ | March 5, 2025 | Rob Pue

[Rev M. Bresciani]

In my previous message, I shared with you about how I grew up working hard on our family farm and starting my own lawn care business on the side; I told you about my first “real” job at the Holiday Inn and how I became the assistant manager of the entire complex at age 16. I also mentioned my work at the radio station, becoming Program Director by age 20 and working for a weekly county newspaper before opening my own photography studio.

There’s more to my story than I can tell here, but I’ll share a few more tidbits from my life. I was also the first member of our local AWANA club, and I enjoyed that very much. In fact, I memorized three years’ worth of Scripture in one year’s time and was the first to earn the “Timothy Award.”

[econjack]

I’ve been trying to figure this out myself. Fast food places near me can’t keep/find reliable workers. The economist in me says “raise wages”, but even that seems to have limited impact. Is it because they have other resources to fall back on if they don’t work (e.g., unemployment comp, parents, etc) or is it they’ve bought into the Socialists ideal that the gov’t should provide equally to all people. Personally, I think is a (bad) blend of both. It used to be that if you were on welfare or unemployment comp, the social stigma was such the you worked to get out of that stigma. Today, people seem to think the gov’t owes them. I don’t have a socially acceptable answer.

[PeterPrinciple]

I don’t have a socially acceptable answer.

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Working is a learned skill. It is not taught at a young age. They watch their parents go off to work.

Growing up on the farm or other self employment involved the kids, they watched and participated.

[cyclotic]

I have a friend who’s daughter has the exact opposite problem, she’s far too fastidious.

She’s also painfully shy. Her parents are afraid to let her out because she’s so naive that she’ll get taken in by any scammer. In a way, she might need to get burned a bit to learn.

But to the fastidious perfectionist part, she was considering doing house cleaning. We had her do our house as a test. She spent far too many hours on it. We just needed a cleaned room not a clean room surgical suite.

I found out yesterday that she did take on a neighbor as a house cleaning client. It might help teach her that there’s such a thing as good enough.

[aquila48]

“But to the fastidious perfectionist part, she was considering doing house cleaning.”

As they say “Perfection is the enemy of the good”. Also of getting anything done.

The goal should be “good enough”.

[central_va]

What a bunch of self righteous bologna!!

>>>>But I can't imagine trying to hire employees in this day and age. People simply don't want to work for the wages being offered.

Fixed it.

[central_va]

There is a price point for every commodity, even for labor.

[cnsmom]

I walked a mile to shelve books at the public library. I was 11 years old it was my first job. I learned so much about hard work in that job. You need to be flexible and recognize when someone needs assistance. I was a favorite employee and was very proud of my work.