“Try to find anyone who speaks fluent English to fix your roof, or drain your septic tank, or cook your fancy restaurant meal, or mow your lawn, or build your retaining wall, or change the sheets in your hotel room”
That’s my point. A FULL GENERATION of American kids have now learned that there’s no reason to do any real work. Ask yourself how many can do a brake job, versus 40 years ago, for example.
Since I was 15 I worked as a fry cook, a dishwasher, a landscaper, a stock clerk, a delivery driver, a janitor, a piano mover, a retail store manager, a piano rebuilder and technician, an arts craftsman, a guitar teacher, a bookstore clerk, a waiter, a singer, and a lawyer.
A lot of jobs I would have done for no pay, just to gain experience. Thankfully I got paid for all my endeavors.
These days kids don’t work till they get out of college and can’t figure out why no one wants to hire them.