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Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy
I am VERY lucky to have hands-on experience in my past, my time spent doing remodeling and working as a mechanic is a huge benefit to my professional career.
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So true. When I was the Chief Test Pilot at the Sikorsky factory we did a number of Kaisan Events (continuous improvement) and what struck me was the disconnect between design, manufacture and install.
The really smart kids designing the stuff had never met the really smart kids manufacturing the stuff and the really smart kids on the line, trying to provide feedback on why the stuff was off kilter, never got a voice.
I guarantee if any of the designers and engineers had ever tried to figure out an early Porsche fuel injection system in their garage the feedback loop at Sikorsky would have been much better.
I talked to my best friend when I was growing up yesterday. Mark was the all California Interscholastic Federation 4A football player of the year in high school...the best athlete I have ever played with and who blocked for me as I tried hard to be 1/3 as talented as he. He was a beast then and now remains the nicest man I have ever met. In all our years together growing up we never had a cross word, zero, and I mean zero...hours and hours at practice, bus rides in football and baseball, beers and summers dicking around and hikes all over the coastal mountains, wins and loses on large and small fields.
His Dad owned an appliance repair shop and Mark worked weekends and summers for his Dad. So did I. I carried the tools and ran parts.
Mark still runs calls at the shop his Dad built and Mark now owns, which he has made into sales and repair at two locations. "It is what I like to do."
That is the key, what we need to nurture and respect.
Mark is a rich man and makes serious coinage on his terms, a tradesman terms.