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<p>[QUOTE="scottishmoney, post: 1610922, member: 12789"]UPS is a hard driver, but succeed there and you will do well. Detecto should have researched how that company operates, they do everything according to a schedule of time allotments. Fedex is similar and well some of that played out in that Tom Hanks movie "Castaway" particularly the Moscow scenes with all the stopwatches and rushes. UPS even has their drivers drive a proscribed rout that avoids left turns whenever possible because they have determined that they take more time and burn more fuel making left turns.</p><p><br /></p><p>The problem is that he is 20 years old, living at home with parents, no job, no school and no reality. I have three teenagers, all in high school and they all have jobs. My wife and I determined a long time ago that they would have to have jobs if they wanted to spend money on extraneous stuff like clothes they want etc. Sure we live in a place with near double digit unemployment, but my kids having all sorts of volunteer hours from middle school on up to current were easy picks for potential employers because they validated their work history with verifiable volunteer work. My two daughters have "comfortable" jobs, ie daycare and another works with children. My son though has a job as a cook in some stinky fish restaurant with a miserable boss. But in the several months he has been working there he has gotten three pay raises - because he is reliable, honest and works hard.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="scottishmoney, post: 1610922, member: 12789"]UPS is a hard driver, but succeed there and you will do well. Detecto should have researched how that company operates, they do everything according to a schedule of time allotments. Fedex is similar and well some of that played out in that Tom Hanks movie "Castaway" particularly the Moscow scenes with all the stopwatches and rushes. UPS even has their drivers drive a proscribed rout that avoids left turns whenever possible because they have determined that they take more time and burn more fuel making left turns. The problem is that he is 20 years old, living at home with parents, no job, no school and no reality. I have three teenagers, all in high school and they all have jobs. My wife and I determined a long time ago that they would have to have jobs if they wanted to spend money on extraneous stuff like clothes they want etc. Sure we live in a place with near double digit unemployment, but my kids having all sorts of volunteer hours from middle school on up to current were easy picks for potential employers because they validated their work history with verifiable volunteer work. My two daughters have "comfortable" jobs, ie daycare and another works with children. My son though has a job as a cook in some stinky fish restaurant with a miserable boss. But in the several months he has been working there he has gotten three pay raises - because he is reliable, honest and works hard.[/QUOTE]
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