Millennial Job Interview

[tungularafishcamp]

As for calling roadside assistance - there are places in this country where a cell phone won't work. Maybe a satellite phone?

My sat phone doesn't work on the north slope, it does everywhere else I have tried it.

 

[Creamer]

As for calling roadside assistance - there are places in this country where a cell phone won't work. Maybe a satellite phone?

I hear you guys regarding the roadside assistance. Plus the time of waiting for someone to get there and then they just tow you to somewhere and you have to wait for them to open to get it fixed. it jsut seems a lot easier to change it and drive home - probably be there long before the tow truck arrives. Then, of course, there is the cell phone issue. The problem is that is how the kids think now and they are OK with not being self sufficient.

 

[Industrial Toys]

I like to use my compass and sometimes like to get some confirmation. Especially if it's been a long day, and I would rather not go on a goose chase. Some roads start off going in one direction and then veer off in another. So I may ask how best to get to a certain highway, and once on it, I'm good.

Recently I was in Niagara Falls looking for a company. They had given me directions but the place was under construction and all the signs had been removed. Four people I asked, either didn't know, or sent me in the wrong direction. One helpful kid with his smartphone, could see where we were and where I wanted to go, but couldn't tell me in which direction to go. Those are days, I could use a GPS. Finally I sheepishly called the company for the third time for directions. The first I lost, the second I forgot to take with me.

 

[MossRoad]

I like to use my compass and sometimes like to get some confirmation. Especially if it's been a long day, and I would rather not go on a goose chase. Some roads start off going in one direction and then veer off in another. So I may ask how best to get to a certain highway, and once on it, I'm good.

Recently I was in Niagara Falls looking for a company. They had given me directions but the place was under construction and all the signs had been removed. Four people I asked, either didn't know, or sent me in the wrong direction. One helpful kid with his smartphone, could see where we were and where I wanted to go, but couldn't tell me in which direction to go. Those are days, I could use a GPS. Finally I sheepishly called the company for the third time for directions. The first I lost, the second I forgot to take with me.

I used to laugh at people that used GPS. I was a Boy Scout, for crying out loud! :laughing: I read a map at home, memorize the route, put the map in my pocket just in case, and off I go.

Then, on a vacation, my driver's license expired. I was lucky they let me on the plane with an expired ID. But they certainly wouldn't rent me a car in Florida. Fortunately, my wife was there at a conference, with a girlfriend that had a GPS. I sat in the passenger seat while she drove us everywhere and I was just fascinated with the GPS.

I finally realized that a GPS is just a map in a box. A really good map. With dinner suggestions! :licking:

I use it all the time now. I still look at a map before I leave, but the GPS helps with complicated interstate exchanges, and what I really like the most is the estimated time of arrival, miles to arrival, and speed functions. Elevation function in mountainous terrain is cool, too. :thumbsup:

 

[tungularafishcamp]

Because of my decrepitude I now have to hire two fishing crew and a gardener/cook for the operation here at camp:/

For the most part I usually have some great kids working with me but I am pretty picky. I have also taken on some extended family "projects" to teach them how to "work" and most of them work out pretty well after a few bumps. I kinda lose some of my patience repeating the same thing more than 3 times

I have also had a few ex meth heads, all "clean, " most for years but it is as though their brains are permanently scrambled and I wonder if they will ever be capable of doing any kind of job that requires forethought. I have had to let everyone of those go early because of my fear of them getting hurt or hurting someone else.

 

[Steppenwolfe]

Because of my decrepitude I now have to hire two fishing crew and a gardener/cook for the operation here at camp:/

For the most part I usually have some great kids working with me but I am pretty picky. I have also taken on some extended family "projects" to teach them how to "work" and most of them work out pretty well after a few bumps. I kinda lose some of my patience repeating the same thing more than 3 times

I have also had a few ex meth heads, all "clean, " most for years but it is as though their brains are permanently scrambled and I wonder if they will ever be capable of doing any kind of job that requires forethought. I have had to let everyone of those go early because of my fear of them getting hurt or hurting someone else.

I have been in that position with sober alcoholics... damage is done pretty early on. Sad...

 

[300UGUY]

I have been in that position with sober alcoholics... damage is done pretty early on. Sad...

I致e had experience with a couple of relatives. A drunk xxhole can quit drinking, but likely will still be a xxhole....I now understand that addiction can be part of mental illness that sobriety won稚 erase. It won稚 hurt, obviously, but it won稚 fix everything either.

When I as a kid, old guys were lamenting the lack of skills of my generation. I think this is a endless cycle.

 

[TCJatko]

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