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I work in the electrical industry and have to say there is a massive shortage of people, and those willing to work I've found are a waste of space not interested in the job just want the cash every month. The group of lads we have now wont put up with them for long so their gone pretty quick if their not pulling their weight we don't carry anyone now. My daughter has worked from the age of 16 part time while doing her degree at uni and is now working as a teachers assistant in a school with problem kids god knows why but she likes it. She is totally self motivated and asks very little from us and shes travelling all over the place so enjoying life. The boy well what can i say the little fucker is living my dream. He's stage crew on a zero hour contract so works as and when he wants he needs pushing sometimes but when he works hes flat out, He done 6 weeks solid 12 hours a day at a festival and then had a month or two off travelling to meet up with friends at gigs in Germany, Ireland i think Sweden and London then back to work to earn more cash, weekend before last he done two 18 hour shifts had a day off then another 18 hour shift followed by a 19 hour shift then done two days five hours in the morning then back at 10pm for another five hours and the same Saturday and Sunday he will probably be off for a few weeks soon until he gets low on cash. It's easy for him he has no outgoings.

Triumph 400 scrambler

Everybody has that 1 dream car they'd love to own....this is mine...

When are you heading off to Thailand again...?

Does anyone know the default password for "System set" for the Benda LCF 700 motorcycle?

Come on Bob he's only after the assword to enter benda

Good use of an old PoS FlOoReD pickup...

Mechanic's swiss army knife?....reminds me of the brass knuckles I keep in my tool box....

$300 she will be far to high class .... $25 will do him, the ugliest, smelliest, fattest most drug addicted hoe in Canada ...... he can drag her down to his level and she'll probably give him a bit of change

That's and excellent idea Bob !

Just curious, how are things in the U.K in general regards to the gen x taking on trade work...is it like here...shortage in every field...and this new generation doesn't seem to be interested in this type of work...they rather be sitting on there arses and press buttons...

Smoker power'd choop....

Beautiful Z1R from Bull Dock....

I have been and ordered new discs and pads for the Dacia, rotors, no problem, pads!, 3 different types could be fitted to mine, odds on I will receive the wrong ones. Just got to (save the money) book it in for a oil and filter change, and replace the anti roll bar bushes/rubbers. The welding can wait till next spring. And I hope the exhaust survives the winter, at my present rate (saving ) I will be able to afford one by next er July.

no, just took a car for mot round the corner and had a wander

Gay!

How sad is that, Marcel? you went to a pawn shop asking for an autograph?

Van action

so @busabeast is on his hols ...... he hasn't flounced

You can now spend the 300 dollars you saved on a hooker and a huge vat of strawberry ice-cream

And the finished product....the crooks at the tractor store wanted 500 bucks for that peice of plastic...found exactly what I was looking for at a local machineshop for 200 buckaroo..

My 27 y/o grandson whom I helped raise since day 1.....is now working for NASA....I couldn't be more proud of him! He's also doing a great job keeping the Ol' SuMo alive & well....

On vacation this week....I'm installing a plastic cutting edge for the back drag on the snowpusher...

Well the old FZ6N has been fixed (bodged) and I ran it up to working temperature in the garage and not a hint of a leak………going to run it around locally over the weekend and hopefully I’ll still have a working motorcycle

Basically the same thing...they just trow you in a pool to get baptized ...lol.

They are getting nonced up by bucksters church lot.... the poor fuckers are all bow legged and their arses are to sore to go to work

All my 3 work. Oldest boy was difficult to get going but he's well motivated now. Started with a Saturday job and now manages a store.

Nope - never have. Always been more of a speed metal kind of person.

I not sure it is all down to parenting although that is a factor without doubt, all my kids work 17, 19 and 20. The younger two the girls have a strong work ethic that I wouldn’t fault. The boy on the other hand is a lazy twat and would spend all day gaming if I let him. I rule him with a rod of iron, work or education are the only options if he wants to live here. I freaked on him the other day because he started chucking sickies, he won’t be doing that again. I am convinced when he does leave home he will become a wastrel and I live in the hope he will prove me wrong. Time will tell .

Here, like many other areas in the country the jobs (even if a younger person wanted to work in manual labour) are no longer there. Coal mines gone, hosiery industry gone. The company I worked for was just a middling employer in town at that time, now it's one of the largest employers, there are very few large business operating here. So job opportunities in the field they hoped to be employed in are very few and far between.

Your not rambling at all...don't think all can be contributed to bad parenting like Buckster said. I have twins they were both raised in the same manner...I can say one is more motivated than the other one...I think it boils down to character mostly.. If your Dad was a welfare case and drunk and stone 90% of his life...I can see that affecting the outcome...but some will repeat the same pattern and some won't..

Maybe true, or not My son does his upmost to avoid working a regular job, he has been like that since he was 20, he is 45 now, at the moment he is in a job, er sort of, in the last month he has missed 8 days at work, because he says "I can't be bothered" , iam surprised the company puts up with it. Our daughter (40) works (undermanager) in a care home, she works 40 hour week, and will also work extra days, even nightshirts when the sick/lame/lazy can't be bothered to turn in, but she does it for the things she wants in life, money, car, nice home and giving her daughter things that any parent wants their kids to have. Anyway iam rambling here............2 of my sons daughters also work under my daughter at the care home, wages are the minimum wage for their ages (21 & 18) and they are there every day, unlike their dad who "Can't be bothered".....so maybe bad parenting as something to do with it, but not in every case.

Bad parenting.

Parenting.?...don't beleive it can all be contributed to bad parenting....lot have to do with self motivation I believe... Has and example....I have two boys ..they could have easily worked there way up and be ready to take over my shop if they wanted too...they never showed any interest...by the time they did...it was to late...

Most know that I have two sons , since day one I've never push them in anyway wich way they wanted to proceed with there education..I would have supported what ever they chose...one is a automotive apprentice working at a Kia dealer and will be writing his final exam next year...the other is a truck driver ....sure maybe I would have like something better for them....but it's how things went...

& thats the factory routing too.... Good thing he "GooseNeck'd" the frame to fit his knuckle-draggin' stature ....might help a bit w/ the tank overheating.

They are trying to attract Honda owners.

So instead of Saturn Power they talked to their marketing people and came up with Benda