Re: Interesting

["ABLE1" <royboynospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"nick markowitz" <nmarkowitz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Dec 24, 9:08 am, JoeRaisin <joeraisin2...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 12/23/2011 7:50 AM, ABLE1 wrote:
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> > "nick markowitz"<nmarkow...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > On Dec 23, 2:58 am, Jim<alarmi...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> On Dec 22, 10:21 pm, "ABLE1"<royboynos...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> >>> Jim said:
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> >>> Mine is practical and hands on.
> >>> I've always thought I would have made a good engineer, as I have this
> >>> automatic basic understanding of how most things work and I've always
> >>> had "good hands" . But .... some people just don't get all the
> >>> talents necessary towards their preferred endeavors. Me? really bad at
> >>> math. Just couldn't remember the formulas. So I stuck to the technical
> >>> end, and following the good advice of a mentor, I got into the
> >>> business end of electronics and used my innate knowledge of how things
> >>> work to out-shine most of the other people in sales and marketing.
> >>> Ultimately finding that I had a talent that had been hidden from
> >>> me ..... the gut's and ability to utilize all the things I learned in
> >>> big business ..... to run my own business. Took off the three piece
> >>> suit and have been crawling in attics and crawl spaces ever since. I
> >>> just have to know how every thing works and can be made to work better
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> >>> how to fix it.
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> >>> Geezzzz Jim, sounds like you have been plagiarizing my bio. :-)
> >>> Either that or we are clones. :-) :-) Except for the sound thing
> >>> you do, almost scary to think.
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> >>> Les
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> >> But, ya know ..... it took me a long ...... long time to realize that
> >> I can do things that lots and lots of other people can't do. For some
> >> reason, for a good portion of my life, I thought that just because * I
> >> * could figure out how things worked and was able to "fix"
> >> things ..... I thought that everyone could do that and that I was just
> >> sort of average. After lots of years and being able to make money
> >> doing what I like to do ... did I finally come to realize how many
> >> people just don't know how to do what I can do. And it's not only
> >> because they're not interested in it ..... they just really can't do
> >> it! People like us are not necessarily unique ... it's just that there
> >> are few enough of us to make it worth while.
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> >> I realized this when one of my early customers said something to me,
> >> just off the top of his head.
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> >> I had this kid working for me for a few months and he just couldn't
> >> get things straight. Couldn't remember where anything in the van was,
> >> Couldn't learn to strip a wire and so on. I was getting ready to tell
> >> him I was letting him go at the end of the week because I was begining
> >> to get angry at him. While on a job with him my customer noted that I
> >> was being abrupt with the kid and when the kid went out to the van, my
> >> customer asked me if I was having trouble with him and I used the
> >> opportunity to tell him all the things the kid couldn't do. The
> >> customer said something, very simple to me that just turned on a
> >> light. He said ..... Jim, if he could do what you can do ...... he'd
> >> be doing it.
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> >> It was right then that I realized that I could do things other people
> >> actually *couldn't* learn to do. It's not that they don't want
> >> to ...... they just cant do it. I thought about it for awhile and, I
> >> guess, up till then I had always thought that I couldn't catch on to
> >> higher math, not because I just couldn't do it, but because I didn't
> >> try hard enough. With those few little words from my customer, it sort
> >> of opened up all the doors in my life from that point on.
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> >> Just one of those revelation turning points in a persons life.
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> > I have to agree with you guys I also can build and design and trouble
> > shoot like no one else as well. But I also have all kinds of
> > schooling as well which allowed for the cross training. which includes
> > locksmith, plumbing, refrigeration, electrical wiring and electronics,
> > welding,machining ,fabricating etc. which allows me to figure out
> > things others can not. You also have to have the mind capable of doing
> > the research and study to get the job done as well. So many want to
> > do a cookie cutter approach instead of taking that extra step to
> > really look at a problem and come up with correct solutions . not
> > excuses.
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> > LOL
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> > I wonder what would happen if "us types" were in the same room
> > working on the same project?? Would we get it done or kill each other in
> > the process??
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> > Another interesting concept.
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> > Les
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> Nah - the person who wants to implement the solution that is functional,
> long lasting and esthetically pleasing will get shouted down because
> that solution will take too much time.

Take a simple little thing like a FS20 low temp sensor silly little
$10.00 sensor and all i get is grief when i sub jobs and put them in
how dare i spend $10.00  which will save the whole building when the
sprinkler system freezes needless to say when i hear this shit I no
longer sub for them and the list of who I will not work for gets
longer every day.
that little temp sensor is required up here by code because of
inclement weather but 98% of sprinkler jobs I go on there no where to
be found and all you hear on the fire scanner every time the temps
drop into teens is fire depts responding to broken sprinkler
lines.WTF  These ass holes wont spend $10 to save thousands in damage
for a customer. and all the good will it brings but then again they do
not give a fuck they are only interested in how much they can make.
then they wonder why I get jobs and they do not and why I am always
booked solid and  almost always bring jobs in on cost and on time and
actually make a good profit on an install  and there not. Go figure.




Nice rant Nick!!  Hope you are feeling better now that you got that out of
your system.
I find it easier just not to tell certain people certain things.  It reduces
the stress on life.  Especially mine.

Ho Ho Ho  :-)

Les