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Originally Posted by baloo
Uncle,
So, you must be an engineer, or have a similar occupation that requires attention to detail, multi-tasking, setting goals, and accomplishing the mission.
Either that, or military, or maybe physician.
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Something like that. I'm not an engineer but do have engineering qualifications along with 6sigma and LEAN post grad stuff. I work as a department head in an explosives plant managing a plant within the plant and the on-site Lab. As a rule in an explosives plant, before you do anything you plan it 15 times,peer review it, re-think it then plan it another 15 times. Then you let it sit for 3 weeks while you think about it a bit more. If anything ticks a box other than 100% yes you start again from the beginning. I kid you not it took me 3 months to change the type of mop heads my guys use in a non-hazardous environment.
You have to consider every kind of scenario like what if they chucked a mop head in the rubbish bin and someone pulled it out and used it in another part of the plant. Could it have a negative outcome IE worst case a very very very big hole in the ground. Most likely no but it must be the first consideration then work back from there.
Anyway my point is I work in my shed and how I go about a project is the same way to an extent. I spend as much time thinking things though as I spend doing things. I don't have much spare time as I have a 14 month old son so when I am in the shed I like to get things done.
LOL as you would of seen with my oil pump mount it changes until I come up with the V3.0 and the right one. My old man had me sitting on a wooden box with a 351 head a set of valves and some valve grinding paste by the time I was 4. By the time I was 5 he would half fill ( a full pot was too heavy for me to lift) the pot on a spray gun to paint the doors on his Taxi cabs lol. 35 years later I am still learning new things and arguing with him that Matte Black is a nice colour when I see him.
P.S Great thread by the way. I am sure people will find this helpful. Feel free to copy and paste my points into your fist post if you like. Might save other people needing to read my dribble.