Lesson Learned: Pros Don't Always Do It Right.

[tommu56]

You just have to remember there are career people that do a job for pay and there are professional people that do a job correctly just because it is a career doesn't make them a professional!!!!

Just look at some of the projects guys do on here it isn't their career but they make a product that they are proud of.

As I always joke about here you have to have plumbers license but electricians don't necessarily need one when was the last time some one got heart by a plumbing accident but many people have electrical accidents that go bad.

tom

 

[AlbertaDan]

One thing to remember is that all "pros" that make a career are not really pro's. Many are real pros. When i did my electrician appreneticeship i was always mentored to the idea, "If you aren't willing to sign your name to it..don't do it"

I am one of the people with 20yrs experience, not 1 yr experience 20 times. The mistake that was made with the dryer outlet was a simple one that many experienced people would miss. I hate to admit but I probably would have made the same one.

Like the old saying goes...if you're satisfied tell others...if you're not satisfied tell us.

 

[Mace Canute]

Everybody has a brain fart occasionally. Several years ago a local contractor who ran the new electric residential services had one...he hooked up a hotleg to the customers neutral and the neutral to where the hotleg should have went. New house so just construction going on. Carpenters called complaining their power tools wouldn't work right... The kicker was the service cable was color coded, hotlegs are red and black and the neutral is white. He was SOOO embarrassed! Normally he did well above average work and very conscientious.
This thread sorta reminds me of an old saying. A fellow told a holier than thou sort of guy "Your going to church doesn't make you religious any more than me standing in a garage makes me a mechanic."

 

[Danno1]

I've found over the years to a "pro" sometimes it is just a "job". Often times an "amateur" is passionate about it and does a better job than the so called "pros".

I agree w this 110%.

I had a conversation w some of my contractor friends a few years back who said they must work fast to be competitive and get paid. They said I had the time to work slow and do a nice, neat, stronger, workmanship like, job. But somehow through some sort of twisted logic that I couldn't fathom, their work was better than mine!


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