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Posted by Steve Barker on March 14, 2007, 12:16 am
I'm a certified master mechanic. This works well for home improvement.
Anything to avoid working on the car. LMAO!
I even quit doing my own oil changes. And I work where there's a drive on
lift and everything.
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Steve Barker
>A question to any of the other tradesman/contractors out there. Do you have
>problems working on your own home? Motivation? Coordination? Frustration?
>
> I get so sick of the old analogies that an auto mechanic always drives a
> clunker, electricians house is never trimmed out, plumbers house never
> finished, carpenters house the same, on an on. However as much as I am
> sick of them they always seem to be true.
>
> I am sure it is no different for us than others where your tools are
> perpetually on a job or jobs, never have the time, last thing you want to
> do when you get home is what you did all day, on and on. I thought it may
> be an interesting thread to hear others thoughts on it all. Perhaps some
> input from some who may have been able to break off jobs for a period
> (weeks/months) to get their own house done. Or perhaps you just had the
> mindset to work all day in the trade then come home and put in 3 hrs each
> night and two 8 hr days on the weekends to get your own home done.
>
> This makes about 20 years we have been doing this and about 20 years we
> have lived in 3 homes in states of perpetual incompletion heheeh. Somehow
> we manage to schedule and complete countless jobs for ecstatic customers
> throughout the year yet our own is never there.
>
>
> Mark
>
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