We Can’t Do It
When I first started working where I have worked for eighteen years now, there was a guy running one of the departments that used to really bug me.
The business we are in has an extreme pressure for quick turn-around. We are often called upon to stretch our manufacturing capabilities as well as push the threshold for how we assemble and what materials we use and what, exactly, we can do with materials and processes.
Well, back when I first started, I was mister gun-ho. I was always running around getting extreme things done in departments that had said, “We can’t do it.” I received several awards in those days and moved up quickly.
Over the years, I continued to make it happen. I still make it happen all these years later.
However, these days, I often say, “We can’t do it.”
I keep waiting for some young gun-ho person to come along and make things happen I just said, “We can’t do.”
After a while, you get tired of the seventy hour weeks.
Now, I’m just like the guy that used to really bug me. It’s a shame. But, we have to find a comfortable place to live for the long haul. I wonder what cool thing or process hasn’t been developed because we want to go home and hug the kids?
It’s one of those ironies of necessity for living a real life. We have to give it up to have it.
In some ways, I still long for the days when I always thought I could fix this–this being the lumbering processes of a large fabrication facility.
I still can fix it. But, you know what I say instead?
“We can’t do it.”
Regards.
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