Where is everyone #5

Lost cause is a 379

 

I wonder what people thought of us when we were 21?

 

The exact same.

 

Two coffee cups, one bottle of war, and a cheese danish...

 

I hear tale I got a load to pickup early Monday morning. Drove out to the barn to put the equipment back together. Says it supposed to be in the mid 50’s tomorrow?

Motor fired right up once it got spinning.

 

Ha ! ....i know what i was at 21......we won't go there. Like I stated maybe it's my (everyone is an idiot attitude). Edit- I do know I was NOTHING like some of these 21 yr Olds ya see nowaday.

 

Good deal tug. Seems my medical vacation is ending. I have worked here and there. But feeling pretty good and have a grain contract starting monday. Gonna have to go hook up the right trailer and get my old girl fired up too.

 

You know, I am constantly impressed by what many of you guys younger than me do and know, and I suspect it will be the same when you look back.

Hopefully there will always be a percentage of young guys interested in learning this craft.

 

By the time we were 21, we had been working 10 years. You have 30 yr olds coming into trucking and it’s their very first job ever. You can talk to a 21 yr old with good work ethic... but you won’t have 1 word to say to a 30 yr old with no work history (smoking weed and playing video games is not work history to a working Man).

 

It’s kinda up to us to promote it. Last year at my nephews graduation party all the kids were being asked as they came and went from the party what the we’re doing after school. Most of them were going to college for something or other, one boy kinda hung his head and mumbled he was going to a lineman. I asked him to repeat himself and he even more sheepishly said I got on with the local coop as a lineman apprentice. I told him to stop that, I said from now on when someone asks you hold your head up, look them in the eye and say I’m gonna be lineman and if anyone looks down on you tell them to pound sand. I don’t know the kid but my brother in law said he’s a good kid, kind of a gear head and felt college wasn’t for him. Problem is people want to shame kids like him who don’t want to go to college. It happened to me and I make more money (not that money defines success) and have as good of a life than any of my teachers and absolutely more than most of my peers that went to college most of which didn’t graduate but have the debt. Mike Rowe is the man on this subject.