Mon Apr 27, 2015 12:43 pm by nikkinutshop
My son borrowed my GARMIN GPS for his trip to California. My minimum expectation is he doesn't lose it.
In Barbados there is a saying, "Once a man, twice a child ". In 2015, the man and the child are not too different, as it turns out. Internet to the rescue with everything you need to know temporarily and not retain is there. There is lots of know nothings populating too many forums with their misunderstandings and bunk-house-BS. How is the "new-guy" to know the difference?
There should be no embarrassment in asking for help from someone with the tools and experience. I know a few things, but, I am just smart enough to send my kingpin re&re out to Coquitlam Automotive and Machine.
When I was in high school there were shops where the trades training was considered first year training for the trade. When my two kids went through high school, in one of the most advance high schools in North America, they say, the shops had been closed down, the tools and equipment put into storage and the shop space became computer labs.
In the great disconnect between the new school counsellor, the school boards and the real world out here, the trades were being used to threaten lower performance kids. While my son is really good at anything mathematical he is much less interested in the BS kings of England and who they were beheading because they weren't getting laid. So his marks showed a situation. I was there with my wife and son when his counsellor told him, " If you don't get it together we will put you into the trades program". I was quick to respond and reminded the "B" that the school does not have a trades program, then I went on to remind her that it may well have been a mechanic that maintained the transit bus she took to work, built this school and the desk she was hiding behind and changed the oil on her imported car.
Immediately after this waste of time meeting where the school refused to recognize they had failed, again, I went to my union office and had a meeting with the president of our local. We started a program where union tradesmen, in cooperation with the school boards go to speak to students about the trades. The company I worked for agreed to have one day, "Experience the trade" days and then bring your kid to work days. Out of this there was a number of persons who entered an apprenticeship and have become trades excellent persons.
The mechanical trades here in British Columbia have too few members to fill the demand. Very suddenly and more out of a knee-jerk reaction and embarrassment, our Provincial Government has reacted to panic filling the trade deficit by opening up trades training by 5 times the number of spaces.. The shortage of trades persons saw the government recruiting over-seas. The local unions reacted harshly when the imported workforce was being paid about half-pay and little or no benefits. The argument was for equal pay for equal work. Some of the foreign workers were sent packing, but not before our unions made sure they were properly compensated for time etc. The settlements went into thousands of dollars per tradesman.
WE have girls in the trades here. Some of the tradesmen are slow to accept a girl doing an often better job, but this attitude is not supported. My daughter is a mechanic and a good one.
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I would rather have tools I do not need than to need tools I do not have
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