Re: Wadda Ya Do

[nick markowitz <nmarkowitz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 3, 8:35=A0pm, Jim <alarmi...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sep 3, 6:09=A0pm, nick markowitz <nmarkow...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Over the years we have had a few detective/guard agencys try it as
> > well as police officers who all found it hard to maintain a business.-
>
> The one common trait I've often seen in successful installers is
> innovativeness. From the time that I was a kid, I was always modifiing
> my bikes, or trains or cars to make them do what they weren't supposed
> to do. Thinking of things and attempting to create them and then
> having those things eventually show up as somebody else's idea. For
> instance, being a boater, about 30 years ago, I thought that if an
> electronic fish finder can find fish a hundred feet below while it's
> pointed downward, since sound waves travel differently in water as
> compared to air, why couldn't there be a similar device mounted at the
> bottom of a swimming pool that could tell when a kid fell in the
> pool? =A0After all these years, I see that someone is just now marketing
> such a device.
>
> I once had a sub-contractor installer working with me on a residential
> job. I was drilling a window, ran into an obsticle in the wall and the
> bit popped out of the newley painted wall. Nice elongated hole in the
> grey paint. I could tell that the sub-contractor sort of "snickered"
> at the fact that I'd made such a novice like mistake and made comment
> about having to explain to the owner what had happened. We went on to
> finish the rest of the house while I thought about the hole in the
> wall. When the job was finished the Sub asked me what I was going to
> say about the hole I'd made and I said that I wasn't going to tell him
> and told him to see if he could find the hole.
>
> That night, after he had left the job, I went downstairs to the
> basement and scraped some soot from the flue of the oil burner and
> mixed it with some spackle to just the right color grey and through
> the day had added coats and smoothed it out with wet towels. You could
> barely tell there was a mark on the wall and since it was behind a
> lamp table, it wasn't going to be seen unless you were looking for it.
> I remember feeling pretty smug about being able to pull it out of the
> fire when the other guy had been willing to give up.
>
> Anyway, I'm sure we all have stories about things like that. But it's
> that kind of thinking that has always been what I think is needed in
> any kind of trades job.

You learn from your mistakes and hopefully do not do them again the
problem is the higher the voltage you work with like me the more
dangerous the mistake.