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Rant: A client's comment about our lake project made me think about the long game
I was finishing up a shoreline restoration job on Lake Marion last week, and the homeowner came out to chat. He pointed at the clean channel we'd just cut and said, 'You know, my granddad used to say a good dredge man thinks in decades, not days.' That stuck with me all the way home. I've been so focused on hitting my daily yardage targets that I sometimes forget the whole point is making something that lasts. How do you balance getting the job done now with making sure it holds up for the next guy in twenty years?
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parkerbrown4d ago
Yeah I mean "thinking in decades" sounds nice but let's be real, most of those clients won't even own the property in ten years, so you're just building monuments for the next guy while eating the extra cost now.
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wade8712mo ago
What's the biggest compromise you've seen between hitting a deadline and doing it right for the long haul?
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kelly6384d ago
Yeah I've seen plenty of jobs where we slapped something together that barely passed inspection just to get the keys in someone's hands by Friday. It never feels good walking away knowing it's probably gonna show cracks in a year.
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nancyn692mo ago
Honestly how often is the long haul thing even real? Feels like half the time they change their mind next week anyway.
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