Monday, February 7, 2011

Areas of Expertise

Anyone who knows me well, knows that I think that everyone has areas of expertise. I always said that Norm's areas were pharmacy and sports- baseball in particular. My areas were everything else! Not really - I have HUGE blank areas- especially regarding music, many practical things like cars and house construction and maintenance, gardening, crafts, shopping, fashion, makeup etc., etc. etc.. I always count on friends who have knowledge in these and other areas to bail me out. I do not need to reinvent the wheel myself. The wheel is there - I just need to ask the person turning it for help.
The other part of this is the " You can't beat a man at his job". In other words it always made more sense to Norm and me to hire something done by a pro rather than for us to kill ourselves (and each other- remember, painting the room), buying tools we may never need again, for a job that would take Norm all weekend but a pro 1-2 hours. The same reason you would ask Norm a drug question rather than your plumber.

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