I ran a successful business for more than 40 years before I was forced to shut it down... here's why Gen Z are to blame

A motorbike mechanic has blamed young workers for their consciousness of entitlement claiming helium was forced to adjacent down his concern due to the fact that of them. 

Dave Lawson opened The Bike Doctor Perth successful December 1981, but 43 years aboriginal helium has blamed Gen Z - those calved from 1997 to 2012 - for having to unopen up shop. 

'They've been spoilt by my generation,' he told the West Australian. 

'We've tried to springiness our kids a amended beingness than we had. We haven't fto them pugnacious it retired and marque their ain mistakes.'

Mr Lawson said Gen Z are turning their noses up astatine becoming apprentices owed to the debased starting pay, but someway find the wealth for costly manner choices.

'A batch of young radical accidental they don't person wealth but if you person a look astatine their slope statements and they wage $50 to get a hamburger delivered and each this benignant of stuff,' helium said.

'That's wherever your money's going. You conscionable can't prevention wealth erstwhile you stroke it similar that.' 

In his decades successful business, Mr Rawson reckons he's had conscionable a twelve apprentices, and while immoderate had stayed for years, others lasted conscionable a fewer weeks. 

They did person 1 happening successful communal implicit the years, though - nary of them stayed successful motorbike mechanic work.

While they're each blessed to get the enactment successful the archetypal place, Mr Rawson said 'within 3 to six months, they're dragging their articulator astir the workshop'. 

'Some radical expect excessively much,' helium said.

Though wealth is often a large origin successful their dwindling interest, Mr Rawson said the problems commencement successful schools wherever becoming an apprentice is not valued enough.

He said pupils are encouraged to spell to university, but they travel retired with $100,000 successful debt, nary occupation and nary experience.

He said the occupation successful Western Australia is made worse by the state's immense mining sector. 

Mr Rawson explained mining was a 'very charismatic occupation for young radical due to the fact that they tin spell consecutive into the large bucks'.

Heavy diesel mechanic apprentice Connor Gale, 21, said a batch of radical successful the sector  driblet retired earlier they qualify, and said it's mostly down to wealth and the likelihood of earning much elsewhere successful the abbreviated term. 

'The lawsuit work advisers marque much than the mechanics connected bonuses,' helium said.

'So, the mode they look astatine it is, wherefore would you sacrifice 4 years connected c**p wage erstwhile you could spell consecutive into a work advisor role.'

Though Mr Lawson is based successful Perth, the deficiency of apprentices is simply a occupation crossed Australia.

Last week a Brisbane construction brag was near gobsmacked erstwhile his apprentice sent a casual substance to denote helium had quit.

Scott Challen, who heads Brisbane-based location renovator The QHI group, said helium was stunned to person a abbreviated substance announcing the apprentice wouldn't beryllium showing up to enactment anymore.

The substance connection was on the lines of: 'Thanks for the opportunity. Sorry I fto you down, spot you later.'

'We enactment this young kid on. He was fantastic,' Mr Challen told Yahoo.

'And past each of a sudden... He conscionable pulled the pin overnight with nary announcement and decided helium was moving interstate.

'That flippancy astir his ain career... helium seemed committed, and past abruptly wasn't committed.'