Gap Skills

I am starting to see a huge disconnect in being self sufficient. Trades are on the decline, people don’t want to work in retail or the food industry. This is pretty scary, generation X better start sharing the knowledge that was shared from the boomers. Whatever you got, share it hard. This is today people, if you don’t know how to check your oil or change a tire, learn now. Come over, I will teach you. Automation is here but you need to know stuff.

Find Gramma’s recipe and make some bread. If you don’t have a set of tools, this is not good. You got a broken appliance? Take it apart, allen keys, screwdriver, wrenches, learn now. In the past I have helped with plumbing, electric, drain my washer, cleaned out a pipe. Helped install flooring, cabinets, build crap, fix a car stereo, replaced a ball joint. These are not fun things, but my my, you might need to know something. My desktop tapped out, my son, the computer guy said I might need a new switch. I told him to get dad to take it out and I would pick up a new one. At the shop it would be three hundred dollars or more. Well there was a little button battery in there we never knew about. The same kind my garage door openner takes, replaced that, Boom! Power! A button battery folks, less than two bucks. A power switch is a junk bunch more! My dryer didn’t work, it has a fuse, Boom, Power…

The good thing about the internet, with research you can problem solve and YouTube has step by step tutorials to do plenty. Ever have a broken wheel hub? There is a tutorial for that, broken dryer belt? Tutorial for that, weird noise on the heat pump? You get it? Knowledge is lagging, don’t ask Facebook, ask google, search YouTube, or Lord willing a grandparent or parent. Actually if it is tech related, a kid!!