Put away the instruction manual on how to manage millennials. These workers and their successors are in the trades, purchasing businesses and smart enough to ask for help. They are at the beginning stages of being your peers and while some will accomplish business success quickly, others will struggle for many years until they reach a breakthrough, perhaps not unlike yourself.
As a restorer in the 80s, 90s and 00s, you helped the younger generations gain data quicker than they could have on their own. Many restorers who have been in business for 30 plus years will testify that the days of cheap dehumidifiers, enough fans to pop breakers and seven-day dry times with no monitoring are gone. The industry simply did not have enough data at the onset to say when something would be “dry.” Now most restorers, even when not necessary, provide daily moisture readings and adjustments to equipment that justify their dry times. Point after point and job after job, the data is being collected and all of us know more. The result is that restorers spend hours debating how to tell which category a job is, how much equipment is needed, what type of equipment, the volume of air allowed to change in an hour and what size dehumidifier to properly dry a chamber. Before this onslaught of data, the job was still complete, albeit with a little more liability.