You see the different contractors on the street and hear them talk about their day. You see them in the elevator and realize they are all alike. You see them at the supermarket and realize they are all alike. You see them in the parking lot at the grocery store and realize they are all alike. You see them at the office and realize they are all alike.
And then you see them at the hardware store in the morning and realize they are all alike. I don’t know about you, but this just feels like a bad day to be me.
Well, I suppose I’m not the only one who feels like this. The idea of being a contractor is one of the most difficult things to master in the job, and doing it without any skill is even harder. The most important thing I learned from my first real contractor job was to keep myself honest. That means you can’t take an extra dime or two off of your next paycheck just for extra time you can spend fixing something.
To the contractor, his or her job is to take a job off the table, to do something else, and to try to get better at it. The contractor is the guy who can tell when you’re starting to feel like you’re getting lazy. That’s bad, because you can’t be lazy and feel like you’re getting lazy. It’s also bad because you have to be honest with yourself to know when you’re getting really lazy. I know what I’m doing.
Thats a good point. As a contractor you can get a lot of satisfaction out of fixing the plumbing and electrical systems of a home. They do get a lot of satisfaction out of doing that, but they also get a lot of satisfaction from the time they spend on the home. When you spend that time at the home looking at the landscaping, the pool, and the garage and yard, you cant help but want to get better at the job.
This is the same principle. In other words, if you spend too much time looking at your home in its current state, you’ll end up not getting any pleasure from doing the job. The same is true for contractors. As soon as you start to feel like you are getting any satisfaction out of what you do, you start not wanting to continue. You can get a lot of satisfaction from the home, but you do nothing at the job.
This is a great example of the same principle. If you are spending too much time looking at your home in its current state, youll end up not getting any pleasure from doing the job. The same is true for contractors. As soon as you start to feel like you are getting any satisfaction out of what you do, you start not wanting to continue. You can get a lot of satisfaction from the home, but you do nothing at the job.
Contractors are contractors. They are the people who work on your home, and they have to do it perfectly. If they do it wrong, they lose customers, and if they do it right, they get paid a lot of money. So if you want to get more satisfaction out of your home, work on something that you enjoy doing. Just don’t spend too long there.
The home improvement industry has always been one that has made us believe that the home is the place we live, that there was only one place to be in and we could build a home on it, that we could do whatever we wanted with the house, that it all belonged to us. There are a lot of people who have this idea that the home is a place that can be improved and taken to “another level.” This is just not true.