My brother, who managed the complex development of pharmaceutical production facilities, also has a small farm in Pennsylvania that he bought when he joined the Old Order Mennonites. He does everything, and buys old tractors. Our dad was a mechanical engineer who was one of the small team that designed the tv antennae the astronauts open…
My brother, who managed the complex development of pharmaceutical production facilities, also has a small farm in Pennsylvania that he bought when he joined the Old Order Mennonites. He does everything, and buys old tractors. Our dad was a mechanical engineer who was one of the small team that designed the tv antennae the astronauts opened on the moon landings. I was a girl so was not expected to do these things, but I watched my dad many nights as he built and repaired things in his shop, and cleaned the game he hunted. In our family, I repair everything, while my husband, whose father was an attorney, breaks whatever he ambitiously turns his hand to; he can't "see." Once I told my dad that my attitude was, if other people can learn to do things, I am capable of learning to do it, and he laughed and said that was practically our family motto.
My brother, who managed the complex development of pharmaceutical production facilities, also has a small farm in Pennsylvania that he bought when he joined the Old Order Mennonites. He does everything, and buys old tractors. Our dad was a mechanical engineer who was one of the small team that designed the tv antennae the astronauts opened on the moon landings. I was a girl so was not expected to do these things, but I watched my dad many nights as he built and repaired things in his shop, and cleaned the game he hunted. In our family, I repair everything, while my husband, whose father was an attorney, breaks whatever he ambitiously turns his hand to; he can't "see." Once I told my dad that my attitude was, if other people can learn to do things, I am capable of learning to do it, and he laughed and said that was practically our family motto.
Bring back trade classes in k-12.
Exactly. The ending of shop class is so many schools is a disaster. Kids can't fix a flat tire on a bicycle and that is not an exaggeration.