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As a millennial, I'm glad my generation cant fix anything. Since I quit my job to start being a handyman, I've only had a handful of days off this year. Love it
Amen Brother!!!
I love their faces when you fix "the things that don't want to work".
Sometimes, they don't even know the name of the things they want to repair sometimes.
How parents failed at good parenting to millennials
$500! Seems excessive for what you did. For that price I would have thought you would have taken light fixtures apart and make sure all corrosion was cleaned up. Glad I know what to do.
I'm a millennial and I renovated my own basement! Learned it all on UA-cam and through the help of some contractor friends. Picked up a thing or two on your channels as well 😉 we're not all helpless!
Ive figured it out a long time ago. Humans are DEvolving. I think it started back in the late 70's early 80's.
I am amazed at how many people cannot do the simplest things anymore. My suggestion for your Parenting article is this. Teach the kids HOW to think a problem thru. Dont be afraid to think outside the box in terms of solutions to problems. They have access to the internet as far as tips, suggestions, and ideas. If nothing else they can learn how NOT to do something. Between medical care for the baby boomers and handyman services for the millennials, Id say that is where the money to be made is. Keep up the good work man.
I would have to agree 100 % with you. I'm 19 and love to repair things. I have experience in pretty much everything from replacing lights, outlets, toilets, faucets, garage door, roofing, painting and many other things. I would love to be a handyman because there is a decline in young people that want to work with there hands. Love your videos man have been watching for a long time
“They *are* halogens so you’re not supposed to touch them with your fingers...” then proceeds to touch every bulb with his fingers, ensuring they’ll have a reduced lifespan and burn out early. For overcharging someone the way you did, you should take more pride in your work and follow your own advice.
I do feel inadequate sometimes. Paid someone $100 to cut off kitchen faucet. Due to corrosion, wasn't able to unscrew the bottom bolt. Regretted till this day, I should have just buy the tool and cut it off myself. It didn't look that hard at all. Just never had to cut metal before. Although I did install the faucet, hook up dish washer and filtration system. That part was easy, but still. On the other hand, I do fix my own car, install nest thermostats, replace big or small stuff in house. Do I still feel inadequate? Yes! That's why I watch your channel.
Although I do want to point out, I am definitely more knowledgeable at maintaining my house than my parents. Know more about fixing cars than my uncle. However, lack yard experience. Chuck that up to laziness. One thing is very clear. Don't underestimate our ability to engineer great product. This UA-cam channel are coded by millennials and same as millions of websites around the world. Your instagram, yelp, gmail are coded by us. And I have a bit of knowledge in AI. Now that, I can guarantee most older generation cannot do.
If they can afford to pay you $500 dollars, there might be a good reason. I don't have time to learn all the yard work, because my main job is software engineer. Have I built a fence before? Yes. Will I do it again? No. But I challenge you to build a website that can handle millions of traffic across the globe. These millennial stuff is totally overblown. Most people regardless of age has their talents and weaknesses unless you are just completely useless. Just because they decide not to do certain tasks, that doesn't mean they can't.
That wind chime is spitting out the majestic beauty that neighborhood needs.
The beauty they deserve.
@@RJ_Taylor It isn't in Oklahoma where the wind comes sweeping down the plains. And the tornados are soon to follow.
"How the generation that created UA-cam can't figure out how to use UA-cam" to change a light bulb or change a tire... something like that.
Unfortunate for humanity but good for us tradesmen’s wallets it’s not just millennials I am noticing not handling their own bulb changes or simple maintenance. I service customers in a wide range of ages and income levels, some that are fully physically capable of at least having a go at fixing something but totally skip even having a quick look to see if it really warrants calling a pro. I regularly show up to houses for an outlet not working and “fix” it by turning the switch on. I think it is laziness combined with lack of self confidence. It’s scary how truely helpless able bodied people are becoming.
I’m a millennial but handy. My millennial sister in law calls me to ask if she should get her brakes checked when her check brake light turns on in her car. But she is saving the world with her $175k education that pays less than $50k a year job.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who makes mistakes like that..... Not hooking up the wires before hanging it on the wall
I would like to see your topic be " How to identify and understand opportunities." I try to help kids in my classes identify and understand this process. Schools today prepare them for more schooling but fail to educate them for the real world. I have my master's degree and my wife has her doctorates, I will not force my kids into college if they wish to purse a career in the trades. I will however encourage them to get a higher education because i believe it is important to have but i will not make it mandatory. I was an industrial safety manager for 12 years, semi retired now at 38, and I have never once used my law degree. I just keep taking advantage of opportunities that I am presented with. How many people can say they own their house and cars outright at 38? The only expenses I have now are my wife and kids! lol
Wow $500 bucks! Damn that’s a lot of money for 30 min of work! They sell those bulbs at the big box stores even Walmart! I’m sure you know that tho! Just my 2 cents! LOL! Great channel! You rock Handyman!!! John 😎👍
I agree. Lot of money for what was done.
Clean those halogen bulb contacts with a welding tip hole cleaning set. Cheap and works great. Unplug the system first.
While I am a millennial there are some things like genetics that prevent me from doing a project on my own..and my wife. Any project my father does takes 3 times as long and at least 2 trips back to the hardware store which unfortunately my wife has seen and thinks that has passed onto me. Thanks for the videos Mr. Handyman.
That's just ADD/ADHD. There's help available for that. 😂😂
I've never even looked at a wired landscape lighting system... somehow I always assumed it would be ridiculously expensive. I guess it's way more than a solar-powered solution, but I've yet to find one that has batteries that hold up long term or can stay on anywhere close to morning. Would a DC converter be a better choice these days with LED lights?
Hi quick question - for sanding drywall after skim coats... What watt leds do you use? You use a floodlight on a work tripod? I just need to get one... Not sure how many watts i will need
Millennial here who's halfway through remodeling our first home, we exist. :)
Mr Handyman I am a self taught handyman "alot of books and this old house shows" and just being a homeowner. I love to teach my son's learn from my mistakes as well as their own. The trades are in such high damands because the millenials are to good to read a tape measure and to lazy to change a light bulb. I believe that knowledge is power and love to get new perspective ways of getting work done. I am a very bad business man because I wear my heart on my sleeves and always give my work away. Great show. Thanks
As a millennial myself I am amazed by the helplessness of most of my friends and cant help but think that the few of us who aren't helpless will be such a minority once the gen x or boomers retire we can pretty much charge whatever we want in the not too distant future and still wont be able to fill the void left when the real men all retire. Learn a trade from someone while you still can and they haven't retired yet or the man bun soy boys will be the only people left and all they are able to teach you is their vegan bbq cauliflower wing recipe.
This is so true but you can blame the school systems for that here we can't afford shop or auto mechanic classes and besides, we want you to go to college and use your brain not your hands. And now we get our just reward in that they have to make a special effort to get apprentices into the building trades.
Do u recommend brass or aluminum outdoor landscape lights?? Also integrated or 12v drop in led bulbs?? I am trying to do my landscape lighting for the front and backyard and would love to hear ur experience and advice! Thanks!! :)
You should try to have them update their fixtures, the rebar holding them all upright is a nice touch. I sold landscape lighting for 15 years and cheap transformers have a lifetime and good transformers have a lifetime warranty
Congrats on the offer. I suggest writing about the stereotypes that people like us face. People who work with there hands have been looked down upon because of the drunks and addicts. Most importantly discuss how to find the reputable contractors so you, I and my boys will still be able to make lots of money doing the things people either can't or don't want to do. Love the this and your business channel. Thank you.
There are truly helpless people in each generation when it comes to manual labor and figuring things out on their own. If you do write this article I think you should point that out. If not, it will come across as slanderous towards potential future clients. Just my $.02.
*GREAT NEW video* !! I know *Millenials* !!! Too many live in mom's basement and are *NOT* motivated to do *ANYTHING* except play video games!!! Maybe you could *stress* how a parent who is not motivated will be a very poor example for their children. Children need *parents* who are driven and have good work ethic. Some are not parents, they are just related. #TheHandyman
It’s true! It’s funny when I get asked to do electrician work, and it’s just replacing a light fixture. Thanks for the video, I have to do this job tomorrow for a customer.
Great vid & info. Like the stories & you sharing w/ us. My 1 tip for writing for magazine, news paper, etc....DON’T use your real name. My mother used to write a weekly article for a newspaper back when “papers” were main source of info(pre-smartphones, LOL); an advice column along w/ editorial articles every week. She never used her real name, & the Paper she worked for suggested that to her b/c of the anonymity the comes with using a different name. Think this would be more beneficial in today’s world, than back in the 80s-90s, just sayin(there are some crazies out there😉).
The other thing she told me when she wrote....have to take your opinions/emotions out of the situations & write....kind of “matter of factly”, w/o being to blunt or crass towards people & their situations etc....😉
Good luck, & hope things turn out grrreat👍🏻
Here’s your topic: “Millennials are virtually helpless when it comes to most everyday tasks, but it’s not their fault. It’s society’s fault.” Then go on about how we have spent the last two generations pushing that everyone needs to go to college and get a degree, villanizing skilled trades, and getting rid of basic home ec/shop classes in our school system. Now we have raised a generation of adults that can’t perform simple tasks, and the next generation is doomed to follow in the same footsteps, unless something changes. Then talk about how we spent so much time pushing a college education as the only way to make a living, and because of that very soon we will approach the day when skilled trades will provide a higher income than most college degrees. Oh wait, we’re already there.
No money in writing unless you win the lottery;-)
Love the channel!
Thanks
Aha! the old halogen bulb trick. We found out the hard way. Some old security lights we sold at Radio Shack would go bye-bye if you did not use tissue paper to hold the bulb before installing them. They were not expensive just an incontinence for the customer if they had to come back to get another replacement. Or they would come back raising hell because we sold them a "defective" bulb. i enjoyed the egg on the face look when I pointed out the warning on the bulb package!
Did you quote them for a new set of light fixtures with the explanation that the ones they have are rusty with failed gaskets?
Magazine author, oh boy. He's going mainstream! Next you'll be doing TV shows. Dont forget us little people Handyman! haha.
I have auditioned for 3 tv shows so far.
I have an agreement with a property owner in the town next to mine. The agreement is $200 + materials every time I get called to come fix or diagnose something.
I sht you not, he called me one day to go replace a 28 cents plastic outlet cover because his 26 year old tenant had no idea what she was doing. Easy $200. Even reimbursed the $0.28.
3 days later, he calls me back out to replace her fridge water filter. Nothing fancy at all... Just push in and run the water for a few minutes. Another easy $200, plus an extra $100 for making a Lowe's trip.
Totaled $500.28 for at most 5 minutes of labor. I happened to already be in that town that day, so even the driving time didn't matter.
I've been asked before if I feel bad about charging people so much $.
Nope. Spending the $ helps me cope with it.
That's kool easy fix you are the man for the job.
Oldest of 8 not a lot of money extra, we fixed everything we could and somethings that we shouldn’t. Everyone of us have skills that allowed us to make money and help each other. 3 girls and 5 boys and have not hired a handy man except electronics or septic tank repair. All revise our kids to us there hands and minds.
Christmas tunes in August, I like your style
I hope the owner of this home see's this vid ... lesson learned !
I would like some troubleshooting tips on getting our low voltage lights to work. We tested and found there was power flowing both to and out of the transformer, but the lights are still not illuminating. Any ideas?
First time to comment, have watched many of your videos and really enjoy. It's cool you have an opportunity to contribute an article. As someone else commented it's just not millenials that are clueless. But they do represent the majority of those who wish to stay away from this type of work. It just means more work and opportunities for us in the handyman business. Write about that
Nothing like watching someone fiddling with lightbulbs while drinking some good German beer lol
Interesting subject at the end, I think some points you could talk to with be the advent of STEM schools and their place in society. Not just this but the industrial age coming to the end and the technology age taking off. Trades just aren't being taught anymore, when my high school shop teacher retired they ended the industrial arts classes (shop class). Fewer people are going into the trades and folks don't want to get their hands dirty. It's easier to pick up the phone, make a call and to throw money at the issue than putting forth effort to learn how to do something yourself. Also God forbid you buy a tool and learn how to use it properly and do not get hurt. So there is the safety factor in there as well...I work in IT as a Field Service Technician and often have to work with electricians, HVAC techs, plumbers etc and it's amazing to me that even today they are either baby boomers or they are Gen X'ers...they can't keep millennial's. Either they don't show up or it's too hard for them to learn to stick with it. The other issue that I would approach carefully is the family itself and the generation before them that made enough money to pay for someone to do the job for them. Our grand parents didn't have a choice and had to figure out how to do things on their own because that's what you did back in the day. Today you are lucky to have parents, and lucky if they are handy at all. I find myself very fortunate that my dad is quite the tradesman but I am an oddity among my peers. Thankfully we have UA-cam university when all else fails! Sorry for the long comment but I wanted to share!
hey. Legit question about the transformer. I am installing low voltage LED pathway lights in front walkway. I have the gfci just outside the front door but I dont want to Install the black transformer on the cream colored house right next to front door. I have a full floor to ceiling pillar 4' away where I can hide the transformer behind then run my 16-2 landscape wire from there. Question. It says don't run the transformer from an extension cord. We're talking about 4' to tuck it out of sight. Will it be game over to run a 100 watt transformer with x4 low voltage pathway lights from that heavy duty exterior power cord? Anyone have any input on this? Thanks! 👊🏾
You can easily hard wire a longer cord on to the transformer. I think the "don't use and extension cord is for the plug getting wet and tripping the breaker. Keep it dry and you should be fine.
You can't possible believe millennial's are that dim. People in general are helpless when it comes to household things. The average age of your clients I would guess are not millennial's. The angle I would take is that millennial's are more diy due to social media for example UA-cam.
99 percent of my customers are millennials. Early to mid 30s just having there first kid.
Some of us are @tecben. Literally just got done changing my flood light fixture because the other got water logged and saw this video was posted and got super excited. I watch The Handyman to learn how to do things myself, along with countless google searches. Not the case for a lot of people my age though from what I hear. Not upset about it though since I’ve highly considered getting into physical labor jobs. Even more reason to now.
Damn I'm 30 and have 3 kids 11 to 4 and I have never hired anymore to fix anything except for auto body repair. My husband and I fix or repair everything around our house yes we have a mortgage too!
My area is similar to the Handyman's. Lots of high income graduate school educated professionals. When I tell people I change my own oil, mow my own grass, fix my own appliances, we don't have an immigrant nanny taking care of my kids they look at me like I'm crazy. Why waste your time doing all that stuff, they say.
Great video bud, as always....
I've seen them both, I'm an exception. My parents taught me, dad taught me how to fix things, engines, fences. Everything and mom taught me how to do the small house stuff, cook clean, be a man that knows how to treat woman. Pretty thankful for them. Even though I thought they didn't know anything till i was 24.
Did you leave your Klein Phillips offset screwdriver at home or why are you using that 99 cent Phillips screwdriver That you got in the clearance aisle at home depot still has the Orange sticker on it....Great video as usual
In some other counties there is an attitude of not doing diy home labor yourself. The attitude is to hire someone to do the work for you. It's a different perspective and attitude, so millennials might be taking on a new attitude about not doing this type of work that their baby boomer/gen-x parents didn't have. It's not necessarily a bad attitude to have to hire someone to fix something. Also, many older generations like baby boomers had parents who came home after the war and knew how to fix things, and probably this is changed for Millennials with no parents modeling the fix-it attitude, the Millennials probably know how to fix code, analyze data and what not.
I just subbed to your channel, first time viewer, good stuff thanks. I flipped houses right out of high school (degree came later in life) I did everything by myself much like you. That said, I can try to give you my perspective on the millennial bit; this comes from a father of a 17 year old Son: Much like everything in life, as time goes by, elements change (or shift). Human beings, in general, do NOT always enjoy change; when we don't enjoy something we have a bad habit of talking down on it. Think of, politics for example. With every new generation, a great deal of change takes place, so naturally folks are going to somehow say they don't do "fill in the blank," and try and justify why their generation was better. Now, let's say the millennial is a Computer Engineer (like me) and his father/mother or anyone tied to that generation can't go online to watch The Handyman because their home network, or computer, or new mobile device is not working, or their smart appliance, modern vehicle components, etc. You see where I'm going here? Are these not skills? I'm not trying to say I'm right, but if the goal is to make a living, are these not honest skills too? At the end of the day a parent can teach their children everything we think are valuable, but if thats not what the child is passionate about, they won't put in the effort (regarding employment). I'll even go a step further and say, on paper, many times millennials work smarter not harder. This was something my father always told me to do, yet he broke his back laboring his entire life, why is that? The workforce will always have skilled workers and tradesmen...stuff will always need built, repaired, and maintained. However, as each generation passes the next generation decides the fate the latter. Like or not, thats just the way it is friends. Best of Luck with your article, please update us on the progress!
Millennial here, not me but can confirm others are very helpless. Thankfully my dad taught me how to just about anything, or I can at least google something. Knowing the basics really help when searching online for information such as using key words or phrases.
What a great opportunity for a side hustle, you could become the "Dear Abby" of handymen with syndication in a multitude of mags and paper. Look forward to it, guess I'll be subscribing to "parents magazine".
Dr. Handyman?
Wish I could chat in person. The problem with Millennials were when the GRANDPARENTS were very strict/overbearing on their parents (as children) and the children, who are now the parents of the Meillennials, did everything to not be like their parents (kinder/softer) and their children (Millennials) are the result. Being published in 9 states for my Op Ed on gun control, I can tell you that when you write, it will come to you. Don't over-think it. :)
Hey HM, I enjoy your channel.
As to the millennial topic, it definitely is a multifaceted topic. Not only has technology vastly expanded and become more complicated in the last 100 years, but so has the social and family dynamics.
100+ years ago, most families lived on farms, which was more simple hands-on and less convenience.
As the industrial era grew, came the urban sprawl, more convenience, more tech and less hands on.
A farm family can do just about everything needed to live. Today, forget it. No one can be great at everything in a complicated high tech world, but, we can all have our niche expertise.
On the social level, all the above has brought us less intact families, more divorces and more fatherless homes, where kids begin from a young age (or not) to pickup on hands-on life skills. And, in the same way, more mothers working becomes less hands-on household domestic skills.
This is not to say ALL millennials (as I see many commenting here that do more hands-on. A millennial may not be able to change a light bulb, but can probably fix my smart phone.
And finally, on the flip side, technology has brought us social media like UA-cam (university) where, if desired, we can learn to fix almost anything.
You, Mr. Handyman, are a friend and father to the world! You are doing a great thing here. 👍😎
it's a product of their upbringing. My husband, very intelligent, great job, hardworking...didn't know the first thing about simple construction (building decks, fence, basement development etc. etc.)...My father put tools in my hands at an early age and I feel comfortable doing all these things and I have taught my husband along the way. His dad, although a carpenter, never took the time to teach my husband...hence my theory that it is a product of our upbringing.
It's all generations, I'm afraid. People just don't want to be bothered to fix it themselves.
I flip lawnmowers that I find on trash day in my neighborhood. Once in a while something's actually wrong. Almost always, though, it just needs a carburetor cleaning. It's an easy fix, takes a few minutes and a can of spray cleaner, and it's 9/10 all I have to do. What's worse, run your gas out and drain the carb bowl in the fall, and it would almost never need cleaned in the first place.
Thing is, no one ever taught these people to do stuff like that.
I am 72 and I believe from an era where you would fix something versus pitching it and buying it new. Having said that there will always be those who have no interest in changing light bulbs and are willing to pay a handyman. However, I do believe there is and increasing population of those who have no interest in doing fix it or build it projects.
What if it keeps burning out the light blub on only one landscape light about every 2 weeks?
Well isn't this another form of your social commentary that we occasionally get on the channel? "Handy Commentariat"! Good luck!!
just like I appreciated my mentors, teachers, and such who taught me how to think, analyze, prepare, strategize, improvise, adapt, & overcome...plus the value of proper tools, we don't work our kids in the real world anymore. my daughter has to know how to use tools, do basic maintenance on her car, and determine what value to who she hires, what they do for a price, and how not to be taken advantage of. it's all about confidence. the fact she can expertly change her oil gives her confidence and experience to look at how her toilet works and fix a flapper or fill valve without actually doing it before. and can find a video that will help her do it. she's seen me find out why the washer, dryer, or dishwasher failed and go to youtube to help diagnose it, where to get quality parts and order them, and then fix.
That settles it i need to start my own handyman business! seems like some parts of the country are worse than others as far as the helpless millennial, but all are a lot worse than previous generations. just weird to me, i love figuring out and fixing problems.. also always take the opportunity to learn a new skill. baffles me that people choose to be helpless...
I see it in some of my friends and instead of complaining about it. Im doing something. I have a open shop day at my house with some easy 2 to 4 hour projects that people new to diy can do. I call it saw dust sundays.
You need to youtube it with there permission of course or edit out the faces.
Its definitely not all millennials. I watch your videos and I genuinely learn things from them but I find myself a bit of a problem solver. I still can't believe you made 500 off that, and 1000 a day... that is astonishing.
you're killin me author,
I have to disagree. I find every generation equally helpless
And every generation loves to complain about the next one.
@@BenCotten That is because every generation knows less practical skills than the one before it. Just a few generations ago almost everyone would can their own food or had family members that did. Often times having built their own house they know every inch of it and every system in it inside and out. Most would work on their own car or had family that did. Almost everyone could cook and i mean from scratch not microwave some frozen thing or read instructions on a box.
It is just a culture shift.
@@BenCotten - Not me, I hate complaining but I have to do it.
@@BenCotten Abe Simpson: I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!
Notification squad!
You should use multiple examples of both situations, well honestly 3....millennials that can’t do it because they don’t have the aptitude, confidence, the ones who are lazy, and the ones who can do it. In reality you only see the ones who can’t do it the most, unfortunate for me I am in the year range to be classified millennial, however I will always find a way to fix something that I own. it was how I was raised. I love the channel and information you’re putting out. I bet you’re helping a lot of those do it yourselfer millennials out.
As someone who often gets lumped into the millennial generation with a year of birth of 1980 I can't fathom someone not being able to change a light bulb or mow his or her own grass...must be a rich person thing
damn, in this country (u.k.) at least on jobs i've done in the past, they don't have that snazzy box, each light has a P.I.R. light sensor that just detects light levels and turns on when it gets XXX darkness
Hey, I'm the second viewer...What do I win...lol Also, that flagstone could use some work...😉
I put a heart next to your comment to show how much I appreciate you watching and comment.
@@TheHandyman1 You sir, are a gentleman and a scholar...lol
Search UA-cam for 'You've Got To Love Millennials' song. Its hilarious and may give you some ideas. 👍
Was that $500 plus the cost of the transformer?
I think their is a difference in millennial's, because my wife is a millennial based on the year she was born, but she is an early one what means she can cook and keeps the house in perfect order and she is a great stay at home mom. But than we have millennial's like my little brother and he his as helpless as a blind guy at the strip club and with his hand bound behind his back. As younger they are as worse it gets. They always tell me "but I can do computer stuff" and when I ask them how to check the power supply on a computer than they start stutter and tell me about all the programs on the computer and so one. I believe it is not their fault. It was the parents who got lazy and not teaching them basic skills they all hopped the public school system will do all of it but hey news flash they don't. My son is 12 years old and he plays games but he also knows how a voltmeter works and how to check super heat on an air conditioner because he helps me when I do things like that. We should stop blaming the kids because they only turned out this way because parents were lazy. Just my two cent.
My tenants called to complain of flooding in the basement Having just installed a new commercial washer I was concerned it was a lemon, show up onsite the basement is mostly dry by then washer base is dry, the utility sink has water trails.... so I noticed two bottle caps in the sink basin. Well I test my theory at this point by running a quick cycle on the washer, when the washer drains into the sink (common around here) the drain flow was so strong the caps got sucked to the bottom and slowed the drain so far as to let the washer overflow the sink causing the leak. Simple fix of removing the water bottle and bleach bottle caps and go about my night.
Can confirm most millennials cannot change their tire... source citation: me teaching many of my friends how to change a tire
Yooooo First!!!
Just bought a house with 20 landscape lights. Some worked, most did not. I switched all of them out to LED equivalent bulbs from Amazon (great price) saving me over 350 watts. Which adds up since they run all night long. Second thing I did since of them worked was check the connectors for each light that connect to the main low volt line. They are like $2 a piece at HD (sold in packs of two) and easy to switch out. My probs with fixtures not working were those little clamping connectors.
If you want your connections underground to last forget the silicone connectors and use the self sealing 3m tape (HD sells it). It's about $1.00 a foot and stretches. You only need about 4 to 5 inches per connector.
i don't think it's true, then again - I was explaining one girl how to parallel park her car when she went "Oh... only the front wheels steer...? " Main reason is, you can't fix stupid. But definitely it's the world we live in, everything is easier and disposable. Also - warning labels "Do not do this, do not touch that" "Warning" in large orange print. most people will call a *professional* instead of trying to fiddle with it, to figure out how it works. Then again tho - I had a 50 year old lady set a toaster on fire by stuffing a glazed donut in it. When I unplugged it and rushed the piece of melting plastic with a 20 inch flame coming out of it to the sink, she tried stopping me because "There's electricity in it"
If I were you, handyman, I'd try to make a point of there always being stupid people. Now we have more people, therefore there's more stupid people too
How did she get a driving license? I don't know in the US, but in my country parallel parking is required to get a license, it's basically the thing that most of the people that do the exam fears.
You should have asked for an extra $100 and put led's in and got rid of those halogen T4's
On the topic of Millennials' skill limitations. Yeah, it frustrates me too (I fix almost everything myself). However, there is an alternative perspective to consider. In some ways it's just more of the same. There was a time when almost everyone knew how to hunt, butcher an animal, grow their own food, etc. Now a fairly small percentage of adults alive today have those skills. In some ways Millennials are just a continuance on this path. However, they've traded those skills for new/different skills, particularly in their familiarity with technology. Some of those new skills are a waste of time, but skills none the less.
Handyman ,
Maybe you can talk about the lack of Technical Education missing from their mandatory school requirements and how its been missing for quite some time. Also nowadays in order for them to learn it they have to discover it themselves berried in-between all of the other topics of newer technologies. Just a suggestion, Good luck !!
For $500, and to avoid a callback, I think I would clean the sockets out and put a dab of silicone on the wire entry point.
If you're gonna write an article, better choose a good pen name. You know,. internet and all
I think I'm going by Handy Andy
@@TheHandyman1 Handy Andy Discusses Millennials! © That title for sure!
@@TheHandyman1 go with Dandy Randy, Handy Andy's possibly gay brother. Play to your audience.
It's not the millennial's fault. It's us parents that are to blame for not teaching our kids how to change a light bulb.
I find that many young homeowners are quite helpless here in the DC Metro Area too. Many are "white collar" professionals and they don't seem to have any practical abilities or knowledge about everyday home maintenance and repairs that people who are more seasoned "blue collar" citizens like myself have. I guess that will mean that the handyman type business model will thrive for years to come.
I’m a baby boomer and a lot of he guys I grew up with are hopeless as well but my son and daughter are very handy
Whistling "Winter Wonderland" LOL
Should have grabbed a bulb from the lamps when you diagnosed the problem and picked up a few with your next HI store stop, just in case... then just charge them to the customer and leave the extras
Was that "Walking in a Winter Wonderland" you were whistling?
Whatever happened to the kitchen remodel that you were doing, thought you were going to video the remodel.
If you spend half as much time thinking about the article as you do editing a video, you'll do fine. We have faith in you. Go get em tiger
Let there be light ✨~ zen Handyman is the best Handyman! ☺️✌️
What an honor to be asked to write ~ that is wild! Awesome. Luckily not all millennials are helpless. YT is a good example ~ full of millennials doing good things. But most are exceptions ~ not the norm, agree.
(There's a tremendous amount of info available about this subject. A major theory regards millennial's GenX parents being the root of the problem & to blame. Parents who struggled hard to make it when they were young. Many were latch-key kids & on their own too much, because their Baby Boomer moms began working full time jobs in the late 70's thru the 80's. So, guess who was cooking dinner? Cleaning the house? Caring for siblings? Using home appliances? Doing simple household repairs & maintenance? Using yardwork tools? GenX kids.
Many GenXers also came from rapidly divorcing homes, forcing them to grow up fast to help run single parent households. They learned how to problem solve & deal with mentally troubling situations at young ages. Very tough stuff. When GenXers had kids of their own, the millennials, many wanted better childhood experiences for them, vs the adult burdens, worries & anxieties they dealt with as kids. And they innocently helped & babied their millennial children too much for their own good, sadly. But it was out of love.
There's also the sudden exponential growth of technology angle. Why should millennials waste precious time learning something when a gadget can do the thinking for them? Or, not use an app that instantly connects them to someone who can do the work for them? In their minds it's just not smart or efficient to ignore such modern time-saving tools & tech opportunities. Makes sense. Older generations didn't have these modern luxuries growing up so we're sometimes mystified by so much tech reliance use. But too much does soften the brain a bit.
Last, GenXer's Baby Boomer parents also get a nasty rap. But many struggled like mad to keep roofs over their GenXer kid's heads during the 70's recession era. And they taught us frugality & self sufficiency because it was 2nd nature to them & a life or death necessity, in their minds. Most Boomers were children of the late Depression era & war years, when life truly was difficult. Most people today haven't a clue how hard our Boomer parents & grandparents had it in the late 30's, on, as children. It's infuriating to hear esp millennials trash Boomers. Most of these young people could never endure the hardships their grandparents & great grandparents experienced. They're very lucky to have welfare & other govt benefits to help them when needed, fairly easily. This wasn't always the case for previous sink or swim generations.
(Sorry for the long comment! Just trying to be helpful & give you some things to look into. :)
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I'm a millennial and I am an Industrial mechanic by trade. I do 99% of the work in my home. I do most of the work on my car. There a plenty of us who know what we are doing and will teach our children the same
Millenials. Very simple, get out the checkbook. Sorry, I meant venmo or credit card!!
God bless the people that can and will pay $500 for such easy work. They are awesome. What's sad is when rich people try to lowball people doing honest work.
Easy money 💰
What about people nearing 55 and don't know how doing anything either? Asking for a friend. LOL!!!
9:47 only on rentals... right?
I made 75 dollars for unplugging a tv and plugging it back in to reset a frozen screen.
Damn man, you really got to replace all those bulbs- there is no way that is a long term solution