As an older person I can confirm that time seems to go faster than when I was younger. That said the reason this is not getting done is not about age but about time. Time is apportioned in order of the importance of the tasks that have to be done, whether you make the list up or someone does it for you. Teenagers are on the cusp of finding out they can organize their own time. Therefore you are looking for someone who probably already knows how to do the task in hand that has some spare time. That person needs to not be as busy as, say, I am. That said I am well aware of the very true saying that if you want a job done find a busy person. There do seem a lot of folk who achieve very little over the same period as those who get things done. My theory is quite a lot of those folks are under instructions from someone else most of the time and get tasked with what to me is unimportant, like being present shopping for someone else's clothes. Poor sods, but if you do not stand up for your time you will not get it! Worse still you might have to get a Campervan! The ineffective Government is responsible for removing some time from the day by wasting it and creating a need to work harder to keep a standard of living - a tax by any other name. That leaves the idle, well since they will never get a car running they do not really figure in much of the calculations here unless they have skills to swap, which is the other way of getting things done of course.
