Don't Write Off Young People in Construction | Episode 65

well it seemed to have it seemed to have struck a cold touch a nerve whatever way you want to whatever way you want to yeah that's a lot of interaction with that whatever way you want to put it on on that like everyone had an opinion on it and everyone's opinion was essentially that young people don't know how to work anymore Young people haven't got it.

The economy's – and this is like international as well.

The economy's all gone.

No one wants to do it.

Everyone wants to be a YouTube star, blah, blah, blah.

That was the general gist of it.

But then I thought back.

I thought, well, what would my granddad say about my dad's generation? So my granddad fighting in the war would probably say that my dad's generation had it easier.

Yeah.

And my dad would probably say that I've had it easier.

Mm-hmm.

And then certainly I know I've made it easier for my kids.

So isn't the goal, like what would my granddad now say about my kids that have got everything kind of properly spoiled? They don't know they're born.

Right, exactly.

Is it just a generational thing? Is it just when you look back, you go, oh yeah, like they're getting wrapped in cotton wool.

Like have we created a problem for ourselves by doing things like that? Yeah.

You know, like my kids, for nothing... have just had upgraded iPhones.

I had to have three jobs as a kid before I even thought about getting a Nokia.

And then I was a BT

selling it.

So do you think that you had it hard? No.

Or do you think you had it right?

Don't get me wrong.

I had a paper when I was 11, worked on the market when I was 13.

I was doing all this all at the same time.