Re: SB: Re: Re: Windloaded engineers

[Alan Courtright <acourtri@linknet.kitsap.lib.wa.us>]

On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Rene Dalmeijer wrote:

> Generally speaking it is not as difficult to find good professionals. Its
> like finding a good restaurant. Ones that are full with the type of people
> you would like to associate wth are probably your best bet.

Now that's coming from WAY back there, Rene.  Good to see you back.

But: Not as difficult as what?

Personally, I've never found a really good restaurant <g>.  And all the
restaurants I've seen are full with the usual mixed bag: people I wouldn't
mind associating with, and some I wouldn't be caught dead with.


> The expert that just happens to be your next door neighbour/ friend
> might not be the expert you are looking for.

Don't have any experts on ANYTHING next door or as friends, so that's out
in any case.

> The ones offering a free lunch should be avoided at all costs. These
> people especially so in the building trade cost money. A good
> engineer/architect/lawyer makes your money go much further then
> without them.

Never found any offering a free lunch.  I have no quarrel with that last
sentence; I wouldn't complain about the difficulty of finding truly good
ones if I didn't think they'd do me some good.  


> Professionals with these capabilties when approached based on their
> money saving/extending capabilty will always think your way and
> achieve the synergy you seek. 

Correction: SOME professionals.  I'd even say RARE professionals.  And at
my age, I've talked to my share, in all kinds of fields.


> If you don't find such people you are looking for a free lunch, not
> seeking enough or you should re-assess your expectations. Or maybe you
> have reached the stage that you are the professional you are seeking
> and just require a second opinion.

If I'm not this, I gotta be that?  Sorry, can't agree.  Some people might
say I'm excessively picky; me, I say I'm just very discriminating, and
capable of distinguishing between the truly expert and those who pretend
to be--enough of the time, at least, to be able to avoid being BADLY
burned.  I have been burned.

I have also, on occasion, found some good ones, in various fields.  In one
case, a good one was one I'd been warned away from as "too expensive"; I
suspect the person who warned me was charged extra for being a motormouth
who wasted the pro's time, whereas I knew just what I wanted and let him
figure out how to set it up.  Which is the way it should be.  

But so seldom seems to be. . . .

                         -|//*Alan Courtright*\\|=   
                                Poulsbo, WA
                             acourtri@krl.org
                       



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