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09.05.2021 10:38:51
The majority of young adults (74%) say they know the field in which they want to have a career. Of these, only 3% are interested in the construction trades.
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The majority of young adults (74%) say they know the field in which they want to have a career. Of these, only 3% are interested in the construction trades.
Here's important insight on home building labor's "gorilla in the room" issue: Why there are fewer and fewer young people entering construction trades.
Quint notes that, in a number of ways, perception is part of the problem. Young adults today don't see a great, good-paying career path in the skilled trades. more
As harsh a light as this analysis throws on one of residential development and construction's biggest pain points, it's critical in a couple of ways for home building's business leaders to recognize what they're up against at this level of detail. They're certainly smacking into the issue in a real way every day in the field on the job sites, as this story attests.
“It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore,” he said. “Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year. The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don’t read anymore.” here
"Some of the competitors’ machines are so flimsy, [Jobs] said, they require a fifth or even sixth [rubber] pad to keep from sagging." [links]
Amazon's Kindle e-book reader will fail, Steve Jobs says, because Americans simply don't read. From The New York Times: here
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Google's Android platform gets a similar drubbing. Also, there were 100 prototype MacBook Air designs prior to the final model. 100! Jonathan Ive deserves a long vacation. here
Some are even learning from star Entrepreneurs like Gary Vee, and applying business growth and marketing principals to their own trades companies. For a perfect example of this, follow guys like Nick Schiffer on Instagram and you’ll see what I mean. Nick is working to build his company’s brand, and to be known as one of the top contractors in the world who raised the bar- all while getting to do what he loves: building. more
I can go on but the list is too long.
If I could go back in time I would’ve stayed the fuck away from construction, not worth it. [links]
– he might be providing really well for his family, and have a great work-life balance.
When the culture talks like that, it produces a bias against the trades in the minds of our youth. It carries all sorts of implied messages that some jobs are less important than others, or that anyone who holds that type of job is less intelligent, or less hard working, or less ambitious.
This is going to sound like heresy, but I assert that a tiny percentage of stick shifts’ slow demise might be because they’ve lost something over the years. The truth is that BMW started giving up on manuals while it still sold them. Part of the joy of driving stick is feeling like you’re connected to the machine, and BMW shifters have felt completely disconnected for as long as I can remember. They’re not alone: When our editors try and name the best shifters on the market, I always come back to the Subaru BRZ and Toyota 86 (same car sold by different brands). Not all shifters are terrible, but shouldn’t more come to mind? Clutch pedals similarly have gone numb in many applications. here
In time, the manufacturers improved the responsiveness of their throttles, but the emissions imperative that drove their adoption continues to change how engines operate. The latest downside, nicely explained by Jason Fenske in one of his recent Engineering Explained videos, is something called rev hang that I originally assumed resulted from massive flywheels in today’s ever-shrinking engines. [links]
Where engines used to slow down quickly after we released the accelerator pedal, allowing us to upshift and match the engine’s revs to that of the transmission, now the engine control unit tells the engine to take its time in order to keep a tight rein on the air-fuel mixture. As a result, the engine is still moving too quickly to mesh when you release the clutch after an upshift. That leaves you two options: jerky shifting or taking too long to execute the shift.
Similarly, the connection between the engine and driveline is so direct that you could feel the delay when in gear, as well. If you’re assuming this abomination was limited to makers of commuting appliances, think again. BMWs and Minis were particularly bad. This was one of the reasons I purchased a second-generation Mazda MX-5 Miata several years ago even though the third generation was already available: The second generation had a good old, quick-reacting manual throttle. [links]
While they’ve been improving automatics, technological advancements have also slowly been sucking the joy out of manual transmissions. Around 20 years ago, automakers made a change from mechanical to electronic throttle control. As is often true of new tech, it came with good intentions and endless potential — and major flaws, primarily in the form of delay: Tap on the gas pedal, and you’d wait what seemed like a whole second before the engine would respond; it wasn’t actually a full second, but it seemed an eternity compared with a mechanical throttle. [links]