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My eldest son has joined and I do encourage him a lot and have taught a few points about demolishing. The bottom line is money and love of work.
If you hand over your company to your kid they won't understand the meaning of hard work. They won't know how when you started off you worked all through the night to fix a machine for the next day or how it is to have no money and still support a family. My son knew it. I was doing a job in the winter and my loader had a smashed window. Well we had a big snow storm and he said he'd plow in it never heard any complaints from him. He is a hardworker.
9:53 AM
blast1 said:
Asplundh Tree Company makes all the children work for someone else for 1 year before coming to the company.
This policy allows their children to make their mistakes on someone else's dime.
Asplundh Tree Company makes all the children work for someone else for 1 year before coming to the company. They also make the siblings earn their way throught the ranks. It appears to work as the end result is a sibling that appreciates where the money comes from and goes to.
That is good. I know a lot of people would just hand a company over without making a child work for any of it.
I would love nothing more than for my son to take over my company. I made sure I made him work for everything when I brought him up. I don't do to much demolition anymore, but when I do i enjoy it.
No, not at all corny, blast. I am a firm believer that our kids model from our behavior more than we realize. Show them that hard work does pay, no matter what field they go into. As I was growing up in the scrap industry, I watched my dad operate his business as an honest man in an increasingly dishonest business. It really taught me a lot about business ethics.
I've read all the words of "wisdom" expunged by the group...interesting! The way to clearly motivate children to be the best at whatever they endeavor upon is to instill DESIRE !!!! Without it, all the rest is moot. With desire comes motivation. With motivation comes ethics. With ethics comes honesty. Couple all the above together with hard work and you will get harmony and success. It all may sound corny but "that which you reap, also shall you sow".
The new generation doesn't want to work for a living, they just want to get paid. I don't know what the future holds.
I have spoken to both of my kids classes about demolition and why it is necessary and how its done. Most of the younger kids go gaga at the implosion vids, but the older (middle school) kids balk at how much actual work is involved.
I don't know if "encourage" is the right term to use. But if they wanted to go into the business, I wouldn't stop them. My son has a great time going out and looking at projects. he always ask questions on how did they do that and why.
I got my six year old sons "about me" poster from school the other day; under what he wanted to be when he grows up he had written "demolition engineer"; I would love to see the engineer part, but I am not going to insist he follow me into demo (or my daughter either).
4:07 PM
It's interesting how demo is such a family business. I have seen so many instances where a demolition guy's father, uncles, brothers etc. have all done demo.
It would be interesting to see how many of us on this forum "grew up" in the business--that is, how many had dads and/or other family members who did demolition.
10:16 AM
But don't you like to drive by a site with a big beautiful new building on it and say to yourself, and your children, I cleared that site. Took out some skanky old building that was there. That's a great feeling of accomplishment.
The demolition association (NADC) has a great scholarship program to get our kids into the business.
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