Read stories about how youth is, indeed, wasted on the young from Wayne Nash.
Over the years I've worked with some interesting characters. Quite a few of them were young men - some on their first job, with no idea what to expect from the world of work.
I got short-handed on a pulpmill job, and my lead hand had a stepson who was young, strong, needed a job and best of all, lived at home. We didn't have to hunt him when it was time to go. Tony was a perfect third hand on the rig; he was bull-strong, willing and determined to keep up with the older hands. He was strong enough to earn the nickname, "The Donk," from the old Crocodile Dundee movie.