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Back to the subject at hand...
Its hard to hire good people.
I can't get some simple projects done and you can't get your yard work done...
Overall, in the same boat - way hard to hire reliable and steady people worldwide these days. The economic situation worldwide would be better if people would work.
It seems that you and I both have money to spend on hiring people (no matter if its simple design or PHP work, or picking up dog shit in the grass)... but we can't get the people to do it in a steady, realiable, consistent manner.
Got a buddy 2 blocks away that has a small pizza place, beer, live music on weekends, etc. Years he was hoping to expand and praying the place next door would move so he could take it over and double his size.
Last 18 months he can barely keep the current version running smooth as both cooks and wait staff are unreliable and often just plain fail to show up. November 1st the space next door opens up, but now he is afraid to invest and expand because he fears he wouldn't have staff to handle the extra tables / customers.
Right in my office I have a 24 year old guy. He is an ace at tracking down copyright violators. Does DMCA work, has fake profiles on tons of forums and talks like a trader until we figure out true identities, etc. Kid is great at it... like a damn private eye.
But, refuses to work more than 24 hours a week. Turns 25 next month, still lives (and always has) with his mommy, and will not work if he needs to be in office before 11am or stay past 5pm, more than 4 days a week. Just has no ambition to grow out of mommy's house, her food, her doing the laundry.
Back to Mutt's main topic - Work Ethics. My experience, like his and your's (yard boy) is that people do not want to work these days. Ambition levels are low.
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