We do renovations and build new homes. I'm a superintendent/project manager/babysitter.
I love making people's homes exactly the way they want them to be. Making custom one off shit for a single family that no one else has is absolutely the best. I love the idea thatbim making a house into a home.
The worst part is the fucking clients. Bunch of rich 'have to have it now' spoiled brat, lama people.
I've been doing this for about 35 years and still have zero way to reconcile these two things.
Fuzzy Nation is fun too. Do Little Fuzzy right after.
OMW isn't the same kind of series. It's not meant to be as funny. Just basic sci-fi. I enjoyed it though.
The tripod idea is a good one. I'd suggest just stacking a bunch of stuff up on a table or chair.
Or, if you have a tape measure, mark a control line around the perimeter with painters tape and measure up from there.
Yeah. I try not to mention it to people if I can avoid it. I work construction and am surrounded by manly men tring to out man each other. I had one guy offer me bear jerkey and got bent out of shape when I declined. He wouldn't stop. He just kept on me about why I didn't eat meat. After about an hour of him asking again and again why I don't eat meat I said "meat's another word for dick and eating dick is gay". As problematic as it was, it worked.
It never cases to amaze me that a 250pound dude with a 40oz soda in one hand and a mouthfull of gas station pizza thinks he has the responsibility to lecture me about nutrition.
I've been a carpenter since I was 18 and a finish carpenter since i was 30. I'll be 52 this year. So I've been doing this for 34 years. By all regards, I'm an expert in my field. My work has been on magazine covers, my work has won awards for architects and designers. I'm known by name by top builders and firms in my area. I now run jobs as a superintendent and/or project manager. I get calls to come work for other companies on the regular.
I still have zero idea why. Like, I just tell people what to do in an order that makes sense. And before that, I beat nails into wood. It wasn't till about 3 or 4 years ago when my wife took me aside and explained to my face that, yeah, I'm really good at my job that I started to realize that, yeah, I'm pretty good at my job. But everyday, driving in, I'm still just a kid that's in over his head. I don't feel confident at work. I know on one level I'm doing OK, I mean I must be, right? But I just come in and do my best and hope it's good enough. Turns out, that it usualy is good enough.
And I can tell you this. Anyone that walks around super confident in their work, usually sucks at their job. I've seen dozens of people claim that they're the best around, only to get axed or laid off as soon as possible. Don't bother being confident in your work, be confident that you're doing the best that you can do and be confident that you have the ability to keep learning.