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[gusmahler]

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I think the "jack of all trades" type of people are dwindling entirely.



[/ QUOTE ]Popular Mechanics had an article about this recently.
http://www.origin.popularmechanics.c...o/4221637.html

I've noticed the same thing. My father wasn't very blue collar (he was an engineer), but he fixed things around the house all the time and changed his own oil. I know how to change my own oil and used to do it myself. But it just seems easier to pay someone else to do it. And it seems that most of my friends are the same way--none know how to work with their hands.