Someone else will get it...

    Sadly our generation is the "someone else will get it" generation. We lack the drive that our parents and many others before us once had. We seem to no longer want to work for anything, we expect it to be handed to us. Well news flash for you, life doesn't work that way. You need to get up and work for what you want. In our diesel engines class, we got put in groups and then were assigned an engine. How awesome is that?! We are finally going to be able to turn wrenches for the rest of the day! 
It sounds great right? I mean who wouldn't love to be working on an engine. But..we walk into this:

     It always sucks walking into an unfinished job, especially when you didn't start it. I fully understand that this is a learning facility, and that we are here to learn. But this is something that grinds my gears. It seemed that every other group only had a few parts taken off of the engine that they were assigned to. But my partner and I walk into the injectors laying in a box, the exhaust manifold laying on a cart, bolts in bags, the valve cover laying on the floor...Not to mention it took 15 minutes for us to figure out how the fuel connector rail fit onto the engine. 
    So, if you have the mentality of "Someone else will get it," do yourself a favor and quit while you are ahead.. or learn that no one else wants to clean up after you. I guess the whole point of this rant is if you start something, please finish it.