Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

  We have really strange situations in the world of careers. Some careers come with training that ends with a job title that says you have arrived such as mechanic, black smith, engineer, painter, hvac tech, cab driver, trucker, and famer. At least two leave a bit of room for doubt as to whether the person has really acquired the necessary skills or not, Practicing Physician and Practicing Lawyer.

  What sets the last two apart are the size of the fees they charge while they practice their respective skills. These occupations come with some different requirements/abilities. With the doctor they go through a training period that requires them to be on duty for 24 hours or longer without sleep. Since they could be making decisions on a life and death level, doing so when you are extremely tired does not seem to be the best option for the patient. .Are mistakes made, at what level of significance, and what is done about them?

  The other practicing career is a lawyer and even though they don’t have to work a 24 hour shift they seem to be able to encourage clients and witnesses to be less than truthful on the witness stand. The idea is that if you are not asked a specific question do not provide any additional information. Depending on your side of the fence in a situation like that the plot may be welcome or totally devastating.

  At some point we have all dealt with someone that we were sure did not have a clue as to what they were doing, or why they were doing it. 

  Women taking a car to be serviced or repaired are more likely to be ripped off than get the work done because most maintenance shops do not believe women know anything about what they need to have done. When they run into one that does it usually turns out badly for the shop owner and staff.

  I had a major garage try to tell me an air filter needed replacing and they showed me a very dirty air filter. It did not fit my car but that did not stop the try, it did not get them anywhere but they did attempt. 

  All kinds of stories abound concerning different people in various jobs trying to get others to believe something for no other reason than to see if you will.  Sometimes events will cause odd things to take place. Once I witnessed a car fail to stop at a stop sign and it hit a car on a main road that had the right of way. The Police were called and the officer that was in charge was someone fairly new to our town and I did not know him. Statements were asked for and when he came back around to collect those statements he asked myself and the other person that was with me where we were when we witnessed the accident. We said we were standing inside the gas station office and had witnessed the event through floor to ceiling plate glass windows. He said our statements were not admissible because we were behind the windows. The guy that ran the stop sign was a city councilman. What do you think? If being behind glass makes your view invalid then you cannot witness a car wreck even if you are the next car there. 

  How often are we not heard when the person we may have something to say against is from the part of society that has the money, and how often are we to blame if we happen to wear the uniform of the organization that caused someone else harm even if we were not around when that event  occurred.

  No matter what the career doing the best one can do should be the objective whether it is preparing a meal or flying a plane, no one wants to find feathers where they don’t belong. When  we get the urge to give someone a bit of advice or a slice of not so nice remember the Golden Rule.