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I get excited in all things involving construction wince I was about 14 or 15. A couple years after of college, I took a job at a woodshop/construction/ architecture teacher at a local high school. I had a huge learning curve on how to get young people excited in the field.
I failed horribly the first year, not because I didn't know my subject, but how the young minds work.
Their attention span is about a long as a goldfish.
They have no ownership in working for you. If they brought in their own car, that would be a difference story. In the beginning, I had them work on repairs of various furnitures and such for other teachers just like in auto shop, they repair other teacher's cars. I lost them within the first two weeks. They didn't even have phone then around 1998. I ask the old timer auto shop teacher about a few students who were rebuilding this monster 350. They were really into it. Daily they were full of grease up to their eyeballs climbing into the engine bay doing stuff. He said, the others aren't really interested and are just here, but the bunch there are hardcore are building their own engine for themselves.
I found that kids just don't really want to problem solve anymore. If its not on tube, they really have no interest
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