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Originally Posted by Rick V
I just do it for a living, It make sit so much better
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Ha, tru dat. Try doing it for your paycheck flat rate, and tell me how frustrated you get. Get paid for a 3 hour job, then have a bolt break, or strip that takes up 2.5 hours to fix by itself.
I seriously do still love it though. I do most of my p car work, and my own projects on the weekends, and it really helps to go in with no real time constraints, and a good attitude . I love to take my sweet time, clean up, and paint everything, keep all my tools organized, and laid out on the workbench etc.. Something goes wrong? Just walk away , hit some other easy part of the project till you are in the right place in your head to tackle the pia part of the project. I almost always come home feeling all warm and tingly inside when I do weekend work on my own timetable.
I gotta admit though, I spaz sometimes. I am getting better with age, but I have completely lost it in the past, threw **** at cars , spit on them, broke my hand taking a hissy fit punching a cabinet before.
One of my older shops that I rented had 6 inch thick styrofoam insulation on the walls. It was amusing to see how many tool shaped holes were in that material when I was done with it .
I kicked over r2d2 ( a 30 gallon metal drum of gear oil with an air powered pump on top), spilling it's contents all over the floor. Yeah, I've got anger issues
I think the secret is to realize when you are starting to get frustrated. Nothing good will happen when you are in this state of mind. Sometimes, you just have to take 5 or 10 to cool off, and regroup. Seems I can fight a fitting for 20 minutes till I am ready to spit nails. I walk away, come back in 5 , and it slides right back together, first try.
Sometimes though , things just go horribly sideways, and you gotta buck it up and deal with it. Always better to carefully think your next move through , b
before you go in all rambo and make matters worse.
Great thread.