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.

The scary thing is that you know you are getting old when you have taken down 2 buildings built on the same site.

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.

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).

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.

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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.

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.

Years ago i worked for a company that was family owned. They had father, brothers, uncles,cousins, son in laws nephews......... Talk about putting the "fun" in Dysfunctional. I have never spent so much time digging holes just to fill them in again, just to re dig them. Somebody was always getting fired but it only lasted until they had spent their most recent paycheck then they showed up again. They also had unlimited vacation and sick leave.

It was a laugh when it came time to purchase new company vehicles. They all had to get a new one at the same time, There was hell to pay if somebody got a CD player and the others didn't.

That is one of the problems/perks about working for a family run company.

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