Maybe I'm too old fashioned for these younger people now days. Maybe I expect too much from them. Maybe I am too OCD for most people's taste. Maybe I've turned into one of them old curmudgeons like TS
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I was raised that how you do your work is a reflection of you. Do a great job to the best of your ability and leave the job as clean.........or cleaner than when you found it. Pick up after yourself in respect for the next person that may need that space. Listen to those with more experience and keep your mouth shut and learn. Don't put something off that you can accomplish right now.
I thought I might be a decent trainer in this field someday. Now, I'm not sure I could handle it with these young people. I'm afraid they would have me seeking a building to jump from.
Growing up, my family owned a pile driving and dock building business. My brother and I have always been mechanicly inclined........go carts, mini bikes, tearing apart engines and figuring it out. I think at 13 or 14 we were using the tractor trailers as go carts. Summer breaks from school were spent at the office out in the yard. Scrubbing boiler tubes out, scraping and painting the booms and the cabs on the cranes, painting the pile driving leads.
We had my uncles and my surrogate 'uncles' watching over us. I remember telling one of my 'surrogate' uncles I wanted to learn how to run a crane. He went and grabbed a 5G pail of grease with a grease pump. He pointed to one of the cranes........it was a Lima 803.........go find all the grease fittings and grease it. When your done come back and I'll show all the ones you missed.
I learned a TON from those guys. They took the time to teach me how to do it. Sometimes I'd get a SMACK upside the back of my head when I screwed up. And I definitely wanted to learn.........and gave them the respect they deserved. I went off to college for civil engineering, the company went out of business from family fighting. I've worked for 3 heavy highway companies as an engineer. 1st company went bankrupt, other 2 I was laid off. After that I went into business for myself doing what I could BY MYSELF.........turning wrenches and fixing heavy equipment.
My uncles and my father taking the time to show me, teach me, is how I got to here.
The damn shame of it is, we can't just download the lifetime of info people learned over the journey of their lifetime. It's up to us to learn what we want. We're all born into the world knowing the same thing......nothing.
There are people out there that want to learn, to do it better, want to improve. Where are they?? I have no idea...........I'm looking myself. I just know that alot of people took the time to teach me.........so try not to give up Vtech. I'm sure you have a few people who you remember taking the time to teach you.
