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Originally Posted by SwampYankee
Don't forget:
They've been convinced by their parents that they need to go to college.
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Heck yes. All my life I have been discouraged from manual labor in pursuit of "higher", "cleaner" professions. My mother almost got a heart attack when I told her I started working as an apprentice –she did not even care that I wrenched on Gullwings. I do have the huge regret of not having a philosophy of DIY in the family: getting to fix my own stuff (anything) took me quite a good while, unlike many Americans, who start in their early teens in their father's garage. No such thing in most of Europe, where people live in apartments and park in the street.