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Can we talk about the moment you realized you were setting posts wrong?
I was using a 4-foot level on a 6-foot cedar fence line in Denver last Tuesday when my old foreman stopped by, pointed at my string line, and said 'you're checking plumb on the wrong side of the post, you'll be fighting that lean forever', and I felt like a total rookie lol.
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davis.olivia5d ago
That's the kind of mistake you only make ONCE. It gets burned into your brain forever after the shame wears off.
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jordan_henderson135d ago
Oh man, you're so right. I just had to start writing everything down right after it happens. That act of writing it out really locks it in for me. Now I never forget those hard lessons.
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abby_morgan185d ago
My old boss at the coffee shop had a notebook full of those hard lessons. Honestly, writing it down just made me overthink it and stress more. Sometimes you need to just let a mistake go, or you'll be too scared to try anything new. I get what you're saying, @jordan_henderson13, but for me the best lessons come from messing up again in a slightly different way later.
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