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Re:New Wyoming bill forbids utilities from using renewables by eli_gottlieb on Sunday January 22, 2017 @07:33PM (#13458695)
>Most of these kids came from elite schools with fine academic records. But hardly any of them had ever worked at a McDonalds or swung a hammer over the summer or done any job that made you sore the next day. I was in my 50s at the time and thought that strange but the HR folks said, nope, thats they way they all come these days.

That's a bit weird. I'm only 27, and I painted some basements and did some yard-work back in high school to earn spending money. I thought that was normal.

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Re:New Wyoming bill forbids utilities from using renewables by knieveltech on Sunday January 22, 2017 @08:30PM (#13458964)
As far as I can tell it really isn't anymore. I'm 41 and worked in just about every trade involved in building a house plus a brief stint as a union ironworker before I got into tech. The overwhelming majority of tech industry coworkers I've had over the last 10 years have never performed any sort of manual labor and most are totally unfamiliar with basic tool use.
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