Boomer: get a trade.
He’s not wrong.
I have a friend who’s a retired plumber. He has a $2 million house with a high bay garage for his 280k RV.
Just the guy you love to hate.
The thing is, he contracted the house himself after retirement and did most of the inside work with some help from his sons. Did all the plumbing and mechanical himself down to the boiler, as well as the house wiring and controls. I don’t think there’s any system in the structure that he doesn’t understand.
I’m a CPA and I don’t mind saying that he’s smarter than I am. His son is an engineer with Lufthansa and I don’t think his son is smarter than he is.
The house took money. He got that money by building up his plumbing business from scratch over 30 years. Now here’s the thing: my friend achieved all this with a high school diploma followed by trade certification. He represents the apogee of what it means to be a tradesman. It is not an inferior destiny by any means.
Life is what you make of it.
Went to my first township meeting as a landowner tonight.
Absolutely epic.
The boomers that are left are begging us Millenials to take power/leadership positions.
They were shocked and happy to see young bloods care.
In rural America there's more gravel than pavement about 70% of budget meetings are allocated to road and infrastructure maintenance discussions.
I'm now the chief poll watcher. The other guy died last year.
The township commissioner is training me to take over. It's that easy.
Does the European Market for manufacturing equipment just accept 35+ week lead times with insane upfront net30 payments are normal?
Because American's look at you like a crook or incompetent when that's your terms/lead time.
The people who want cheap foreign wool are the same people who can't understand why there are only a handful of US wool mills left.
You get what you fund. For forty years this country funded the foreign version. We are picking up what's left and rebuilding it.