If i could restore Seacrafts all day long I would move down there and work for you..lol
Just kidding, good luck

Start a local trade school at your shop and train them!
I will sign up!...
Seriously though...more high school kids need to learn a trade...
If I could do it over again I would have said heck with college...and been an HVAC tech...would have owned my own AC co. by now
oh well!
-Fred

Here's the long and short of it.
Back when I started, I hired people I that I used to work with 25-30 years ago. Good people, knew their stuff.
Problem was, times change, technology changes, I could not get them to change.
So, I changed them, went with younger people.
Now, everyone in my shop has learned from me, my way of doing stuff, the way we do stuff. It has not been an easy ride.
I have had people come out of the trade schools, I have paid them, trained them, paid to have training for them. Some I canned, some quit when they thought they knew it all.
I am not against training, it takes alot of patience, work and money.
But, gosh darn it, it would be nice if they had something, some tool, something.
The last group to come through, fresh out off trade school, had not one tool, not one.
Nobody wants to learn the old way, they want to get in, do it, and get paid. Oh, and they latest way that it is done, is the best way.
Anyway, plod along I do------.

Weren't you in high school 30 years ago? Just askin. Ha ha! :D

I wish, I think I'm AS old or older than you Pops. ;)
I think it was fheld that said he wished he learned a trade.
Well, in 1978, I wuz 18, (hint, hint), I came up from the Cayman Islands and went straight into OMC skool. From then on I have been working, no college.
I'm not convinced it was the right way, but for me it was the only option.
The trade is good, but going to a good college would have opened other doors. Not saying I would have stayed once the door opened, but it would have been nice to peek in.
Just sayin-----. :)

Jeez dude, yer ancient. But still younger than the Herm. Kids nowadays. :rolleyes:

Yea, shoulda known, it takes a loooooong time to amass such knowledge O Great FRP Swami.
I bow to you, both in age and knowledge aka "respect."
S---, I must be tired. :)

You'll be ok kid, hang in there. :D

I think this unfortunate phenomenon has as much to do with market forces as it does with laziness. Oly, you need to train you up some Mexicans. Americans can make more on the dole than they can at entry level wages in the trades. That's what's happened in the construction trades over the last 15 years. Try to find an American who's willing to pick up a trowel and sweat his a$$ off finishing concrete for a day's wages. Everyone wants to start out in management. There are still some folks out there with a work ethic, but even in this economy, they've already got jobs.

Dudes....
Lets twist-up a big fatty and talk bout it......:eek:

Even being a product of the 60's & 70'S, the work ethic is
as strong as ever!! :D

Ole, I hear you on the young work force...

When I started in the POS (Point of sale) business, that means
cash registers, Jewish pianos..... you catch my drift.. :cool:
back in 1975. Electronics were just coming about..

My former boss hired young skulls full of mush and formed us the way
he wanted!! Ya know what, it worked!!

I owe my whole career to this very smart business man.

OK, sip sip, Sailor Jerry... agghhhhh... I feel good!