"How hard can it be?" was the byword of one of my old bosses in Redditch. He started off with a two-up, two-down Victorian cottage in Birmingham and by the time he moved out, it was about twice the size! All done by him & his father-in-law. "All the really thick kids I went to school with went off to be brickies, so it shouldn't be too hard for me to do it!" was his (not unreasonable) attitude, and as he paid attention to building regs and so on, he certainly got a better result by DIY than he would have from yer average PicNMix assortment of fine-through-to-cowboy builders.
He had much the same gung-ho attitude at work, though sadly (given that the code was unlikely to fall onto anyone's head) with slightly less lovely results. The functionality was great, you know, the product sold, but on the inside it was written in C-made-to-look-like-Pascal (yikes!). Also, there was the time he got knocked over by a bus less than a week before an external quality inspection and a quarter's worth of project documents had to be hastily faked completed.
All in all though, "How hard can it be?" is a much underrated saying and I shall be forever grateful to him as I learned a lot about the real world from him!
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Date: October 5th, 2004 08:45 am (UTC)From:"All the really thick kids I went to school with went off to be brickies, so it shouldn't be too hard for me to do it!" was his (not unreasonable) attitude, and as he paid attention to building regs and so on, he certainly got a better result by DIY than he would have from yer average PicNMix assortment of fine-through-to-cowboy builders.
He had much the same gung-ho attitude at work, though sadly (given that the code was unlikely to fall onto anyone's head) with slightly less lovely results. The functionality was great, you know, the product sold, but on the inside it was written in C-made-to-look-like-Pascal (yikes!). Also, there was the time he got knocked over by a bus less than a week before an external quality inspection and a quarter's worth of project documents had to be hastily
fakedcompleted.All in all though, "How hard can it be?" is a much underrated saying and I shall be forever grateful to him as I learned a lot about the real world from him!