Re: Thoughts On Recruiting The Next Generation

Posted by Cli55er On 2011/12/29 16:08:36

well as for my kid...he'll be wrenching. my dad tought me and i'll teach mine. he already gets out there and helps me at 3.

as to the chettah...i didn't know what that was till Yahoo told me on the homepage, but then i understood after reading. so i gained knowledge.

alot of what i learn mechanical was taught to me through a bleep or bip of a modern computer these days, but before that my dad taught me. my pdf service manual from packard info that i can pull up on the computer in my garage on my 26" 1080p tv is just dandy ;0), but i do have a paper version too. heck i got it on my iphone too.

but i do get where you are coming from... alot of people i know have their nose stuck into there iphone on facebook or texting, so much that i think the evolution will ultimately be the death of our social skills and verbal in person communcation, not so much our ability to learn, but our ability to socialize with it. this forum isn't too far off from that, but we do at least meet up in our respects with our cars at local meets and talk in person, so we practice both in this hobby.

but i don't see a local facebook meet up around.....or texting meet up....yeah.....just think about that...one day we wont even know how to cry unless it is stairing at a computer screen reading whatever bad news was posted.

hopefully i'm dead by the time i talk to a kid and he looks at me like i'm dumb cause i didn't text it instead.

i tend to think of myself as having old school values mixed with new tech ways. i like the livelyhood of the 40/50s etc etc...but i like the new tech i get to enjoy too.

i guess i'm a hybrid of sorts and i hope i pass on that to my son too. i can do both old and new ways, i enjoy both.

Hank