The Training Wheels are Coming Off (post #4)

Monday ~ 5/23/2022 ~

        Today I did some more red lines (now I’m doing more actual modeling, instead of just label and text editing) and started prep for a trip tomorrow morning. I will be going with Dann to look at a site with an electrician so I can write up a plan (as of later, this has been changed to be held at the client's main office), using the information we find there to create the plan. The client is requesting the bare minimum so they can get a permit as cheaply as possible/as soon as possible. Apparently, I will be doing the majority of this very thing that the client wants. I'm of course nervous, but also excited to do something more meaningful.

Tuesday ~ 5/24/2022 ~

        today I went to meet with the Client with Dann (the aforementioned trip), but he didn’t show up! It was definitely interesting to experience something like that firsthand. By Dann’s standard they were a “smaller client,” and he said it was for reasons just like this happenstance, that he doesn't like to work for them (Although this Client was a collogue of his, or at least someone Dann knew from a while back). Because the Client was the boss of the company and was sick, there was actually no one left there that knew enough about the project to take his place/relay anything, which I found interesting in it of itself. An important lesson I'm taking away from this is that even if you can do everything yourself, you shouldn’t, since there’s always an occasion where you can’t be there or you can’t account for, just as this Client was sick, and not able to relay any of the information Dann and I needed to help the Client get a permit. One thought I had was the difficulty an owner like Dann's client would have in scaling up business if only he knew about everything. As Eleanor Roosevelt said, "Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself."

        Not much happened today once I came back. I started setting up a couple new desks they ordered, since I didn't get any of the information I would have used to start on the client's write up for his permit. A little disappointing, but a fun break from the normal red line monotony.