Life advice, from unlikely sources.

[BackRoad]

My best advice was learned from my grandfather, while at the age of 8. He said go wash your hands with hot water before supper. So I went and used the hot water faucet as instructed, but it took 2 minutes for hot water to actually show up, and no 8 year old has 2 minutes to spare just to wash hands.

Sure nuff, he asked if I used hot water. "Yes" I said, and so WE walked into the bathroom to check. Now technically, I used the hot water faucet, but when he turned it on, there was no hot water for a verrrry long, dreadful 60 seconds...

"Never lie boy!"

He said as the razor strop thwacked on the back of my legs for the third time...

That moment of education stuck with me for the last 60 years...and was the bedrock of a great career.

The people I worked with, along with my clients somehow knew I was never going to lie, even if there were going to be downstream negative results...

When you're the one responsible for the running of critical operations, you can never lie, or your career is over...

 

[Eagle1]

Brutally honest..... was my policy as a guy that had to fix your equipment when others failed.

How can a business make decisions without good facts? My estimates were best case and worst case and told them to plan for worst case. Get it up early everyone is happy but the plans were in place just in case.

 

[Sigarms]

The people I worked with, along with my clients somehow knew I was never going to lie, even if there were going to be downstream negative results...

I've done ok for myself dealing with people even though I prefer my dogs over most people LOL

I've told more than one friend / customer of mine it's funny, you can spend thousands of dollars for "sales training classes", but the ONLY reason why I consider myself somewhat successful is I only try to treat people the same way I expect to treat myself.

Luke 6:31 and Matthew 7:12.

I swear, if it weren't for the New Testament, I'd be an atheist LOL

Like anything dealing with a higher power, sometimes it takes time in your beliefs, and you may not see the results right away, but when you look back over 30 years and see how things played out, it pretty much turned out OK even if you didn't see it at that moment in time.

I do a lot of commercial work. I found out I screwed something up big time when I got a call from the guy on the roof with the crane. I told the guy I messed up and I would make it right (have a long winded reason as to why I screwed up), but he laughed and told me that is what he needed to hear.

Sometimes people get mad at me because after that happened in 1999, I'm over **** retentive on details, but I know not to make the same mistake twice.

TEST - ****. (got to love AI or whatever it is, I tried to type a n a l, go figure...)

You know your getting old because I knew a company I dealt with is using AI on texts. Called the owner and explained to him that I would be like screw this scrap with AI trying to figure everything out if I were his customer. He agreed with me and told me it was his son who wanted it LOL. Owner told me it's the "new generation". kind of glad I'll be gone in another 30 years or so (God willing).