if you're not interested rewiring a car then why not pay someone else to do the work so you can do something you want to do?
Depends...
- Can you
afford someone else to do it?
- Can you
find someone who will do your little bit of "work"?
- Are you being ripped off?
For example - If they even took the job on, I wonder what a fully qualified electrician would normally charge for rewiring your plug... and how much it'd cost you if they wanted to take the ****?
Most of the time my skills have developed from seeing what other people charge and deciding they can **** right off - Even right now, I'm learning some woodwork stuff, because I'm not paying someone else £150 for something in cheap plywood that costs £10 to make from solid English oak!
Exactly. If you don't need to do it then why do you need to "know" how to do it.
Because knowing it more often opens your options up, especially with things that are (or perhaps were, nowadays) regarded as pretty common, basic skills.
I don't *need* to drive or ride even now, really, but I can get places much faster, carry more stuff in single trips, assist friends, save money and even get jobs that were previously closed to me
Similarly, I don't *need* to know how to wash up or do the laundry, but my life is SO much more peaceful if I do...!!
Exactly. If you don't need to do it then why do you need to "know" how to do it.
But then that swings both ways, where people's lack of knowledge about things lead to the negating of them, or the removal of any opportunity to do them if one wanted.
Besides - Needs also change, usually at very inopportune moments. This is why we have things like breakdown companies being called out to change people's punctured wheels or put in the fuel/oil/coolant fluid the owner "didn't know how to"...
The whole point of my argument, yet many people seem to complain daily on here about "millennials" not being able to do things, things they don't/rarely ever need to do any more.
I grew up learning to be self-sufficient as a matter of personal pride, though - You don't have to be amazing at anything, but you should be able to do the basics for yourself.
So for me the 'despair' is in the pride they take in their wilful ignorance, like it's fashionable to be a clueless, good-for-nothing retard whose only skill is posting pictures of their turds on Farcebook and *******...!
Doesn't matter if it's boiling an egg, opening a bank account, writing a covering letter, changing a plug, tying your shoes or wiping your own arse... and even then, it's probably all on Google, but these poor little millenials purposely won't even make the effort to look it up.
Their life choices negate the need for knowing many things, because they have chosen a disposable culture and in many cases it's slowly robbing us of our opportunity to do these things if we want.
Similarly, many of the skilled staff at our workplace have been negated because the young management with their infinite 'wisdom' and college degrees decided "we don't know what it is so the company obviously don't need it any more and we can always just pay someone else to do it"... except that no-one else knows how it works, or where it is, what it was called or why we used to do it... and now we're properly ******, because we got rid of those who did know.
For many things online banking is pretty much a requirement.
Like what?
I can't think of any...
TBH there's a reason One Foot in the Grave was thought up and became so popular. It's a stereotype, but unfortunately it seems as we get older we do seem to get grumpier.
Not really.
Like I said, I was 'despairing' at how clueless young people were getting before I even left school my own self... and I don't consider
myself a particularly capable person either... just able to cope with the basics, which should say all I need to about those who can't/won't.
(not home atm though)
