Everywhere you look, contractors are seeking employees. Things have changed from when I started in this business over 40 years ago. Most of those changes are social in nature. The demographics of American employment has dramatically changed through the years. Yet many contractors haven’t changed with the times.
We used to attract hard-working farm boys, but automation, fewer children per household, corporate farming and lots of other factors have shrunk farm employment from 18 percent of the workforce in 1910 to less than 1 percent in 2000. It seems there’s no one left to recruit.