This has been happening for more than a couple of generations. My father is in his 60s and most of his friends have one skill set or another, very few can do two or more. It's the same with all of my friends (early 40's).
If they work on cars then they probably can't hang a ceiling fan. If they can fix a leaky faucet then they probably can't calculate a return-on-investment. Dad used to say "Bruce fixes our exhaust leak and when he needs a bathroom remodeled he calls us. We all have our specialty and we all get to earn a living."
If you weren't lucky enough to have someone teach you a skill when you were younger it's not so easy to learn as an adult. I can build a house from the ground up, but had no idea what to do with the glow plugs on my tractor. As I tackle owning my first tractor I'm finding that even though I'm pretty well rounded in a ton of fields I'd be completely lost without the help of folks like all of you.
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Today's Featured Article - An Old-Time Tractor Demonstration - by Kim Pratt. Sam was born in rural Kansas in 1926. His dad was a hard-working farmer and the children worked hard everyday to help ends meet. In the rural area he grew up in, the highlight of the week was Saturday when many people took a break from their work to go to town. It was on one such Saturday in the early 1940's when Sam was 16 years old that he ended up in Dennison, Kansas to watch a demonstration of a new tractor being put on by a local dealer. It was an Allis-Chalmers tractor dealership,
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