I was thinking about this post over the weekend. I had a customer last week ask me if I was hiring. Her grandson teenager has a plotter at home and dabbles with graphics. Considering my other kid quit for Walmart and my son has no interest, and his own summer job, I think I should talk with him. It would be nice to have someone who has some knowledge with weeding and I would assume he's probably dabbled in with some light installation.
When I do trailer or vehicle installs I typically have the kid go ahead of me and do surface prep. Next I like to have a helping hand in lining the graphics up and while I'm squeegeeing, the kid can start to line up on the other side using the measurements from side one, then remove the masking from side 1 while I fine tune the measurements on side 2 then help me squeegee side 2, remove masking, final wipe down, etc. The kid I had could not read a tape measure and zero confidence in taping anything up. He could not make decision without me standing there which defeated the purpose. I would tell him, "just get the graphics close..." after about 15 minutes I would go over there, thinking he would have them up (because what was he doing to for the last 15 minutes?) nope. He was just fiddling around with the tape measure pretending to do something, which was nothing. Even when he took out the cardboard for recycling, I told him just cut the tape on the boxes, fold them and jam them in the can, only cut them down to make them fit. After 20 minutes I would check on him (because again, what is he doing for 15 minutes?) - he's tearing each box and each roll down to 6" squares with his hands, didn't even use the knife. In his defense, he was a very good cleaner, good with bookwork and a nice conversationalist. He did lend a helping hand but just could not do anything on his own.
Finding someone with some common sense who has the basic concept of "measuring" and using a tape measure is harder than a person would think.
