Jack of all trades
and master of none
A job well done (If you try harder)
Over my lifetime there are not many jobs that I have not
tackled, and as with every job, the more you do of that particular job the
better you get at it.
On the domestic side
Take hair dressing for example, not that far fetched from
sheep shearing, or cattle clipping, when we were kids (four of us lads), father
used to cut our hair with clippers that he had to squeeze with his hand to
operate the blade.
The problem was when he was in a hurry, (and it was always the first day of a new term), which he often was,
he would push the clipper up the back of ya neck faster than what he was
operating the blade, the result was he was pulling our hair by the roots.
He
did make a good tidy job, and many compared it with how he thatched his ricks
of hay and corn, combed down to the eves and clipped up the sides.
Take welding, unless you get a bit of tuition, and then get
plenty of time to put into practice what you have just learnt, its no use. In
my case it’s a matter of tapping the rod onto the metal until you get a spark,
then keep melting the rod into the joint. In reality, the rod more often than
not gets stuck and welded to the job. After a vigorous twisting and pulling it breaks
free, peeling and cracking the coating off the rod making it impossible to
strike an arc to get going again. Must
admit, my welding has been called and likened to pigeon shit welding. So I get
by on doing repairs that are not too crucial or to essential, just bog standard
welding.
I’ll never be a “sparkie”
All things electrical are very mystical to me, as soon as a
wire disappears into a wall, it come out a different colour at the other end.
Two way light switches, for example,
they beat me every time,
its okay to fit a new bulb holder, or new three pin plug and simple thing
like that.
Another thing that is always awkward for me that does not
crop up very often is the trailer light sockets and plugs, with , is it seven
or nine wires to connected in to
correspond to what the vehicle wires want to convey. Wiring looms, alternators, and the back or
the inside of a vehicle dash boards are
way beyond my comprehension, Fuses I can
manage, but on the modern tractor there can be thirty or more, thank goodness
for the instruction book, it lists and numbers them and what strength of fuse
to use.
I don’t know the key
to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody
Bill Cosby (1937)
