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I feel this on a cellular level. Because the fix-it guys are all dying off. There was a guy down the road from me who charged me “whatever you think it’s worth” when he fished a sock out of the hose of my vacuum cleaner (using the hi-tech wire coat hanger method.) He had a cat who kept him company in the shop. The shop’s closed now, and I dread having to have my vacuum fixed.
I want to beg Wally to take an apprentice. Come on, kids these days can’t get meaningful jobs anyway. Teach some highschooler small appliance repair; he’ll only ever have dead-end retail jobs anyway so he might as well be able to have something to moonlight with. God.
I’m zero percent mechanically inclined or I’d ask him to teach me.
I guess a rant on designed-disposable consumer-wares and upgrade culture and the other sins of capitalism is more than I really have time for, but take it as read.
(Coworker just had his hot water tank replaced. “This one lasted right about twenty years on the money,” the plumber said thoughtfully. “They used to. These new ones? Budget on replacing them in seven-eight years, that’s their expected lifespan. See you soon.”)
I feel this on a cellular level. Because the fix-it guys are all dying off. There was a guy down the road from me who charged me “whatever you think it’s worth” when he fished a sock out of the hose of my vacuum cleaner (using the hi-tech wire coat hanger method.) He had a cat who kept him company in the shop. The shop’s closed now, and I dread having to have my vacuum fixed.
I want to beg Wally to take an apprentice. Come on, kids these days can’t get meaningful jobs anyway. Teach some highschooler small appliance repair; he’ll only ever have dead-end retail jobs anyway so he might as well be able to have something to moonlight with. God.
I’m zero percent mechanically inclined or I’d ask him to teach me.
I guess a rant on designed-disposable consumer-wares and upgrade culture and the other sins of capitalism is more than I really have time for, but take it as read.
(Coworker just had his hot water tank replaced. “This one lasted right about twenty years on the money,” the plumber said thoughtfully. “They used to. These new ones? Budget on replacing them in seven-eight years, that’s their expected lifespan. See you soon.”)
