streetsweeper1
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Originally posted by NtotheIZZATEDOG
the question was asked "how do you think the professionals learned?"..........Most of the from training,AND practicing their newly learned skills in the presence of an experienced professional until they were ready to be called professionals themselves. I wonder if their is a medical web forum where guys are just diggin into heart surguries and sayin "well, I gotta learn somehow"
You don't have to work side by side with a professional to become a professional. We're talking about being a pro at building trucks/frame design and all the fabrication that goes with it. What a closed mind way to think. Some of the smartest people to ever live were pioneers in their own field. If you rely on someone else to teach you everything you will probably never develop your own style of work, and never reach your full potential as a fabricator "The world is flat" said the professionals. I can't tell you how many people come back from WyoTech and tell me the world is flat in terms of their "professional knowledge" because the teacher at the college told them so. There must only be one way of thinking at that point because if "the professionals" did'nt say it would work there is no possible way it can right??? Sure there are many skills to be learned at a trade school or welding class but when it comes to building trucks, a "professional" is someone who has gained experience in the field through triumph and failure and has proven their skill time and time again with projects that work smoothly by design (some of which were thought impossible before by thier days standard. That is the definition of a true professional in this field, (not a kid fresh out of his chassis fabrication semester). besides, we're not talking about Heart Surgery or Brain Surgery here either... It's fabrication of customs side by side with earned skill and a set of standard "rules" that can be broken from time to time. All new knowlege is gained by experimentation.