Cheri wrote:
I probably could have done it without you - but I would have made some [more] really expensive mistakes along the way - and I wouldn't have had half as much fun doing it
That sentence is probably more accurate for most all of us then some might think...I know it is for me also..
I built my 1st van the way I wanted it on my own..it was ok...but then I started reading Turles and Moots post on what they did, along with other and each time i'd get home, Id tear somethging out or apart and redo it..it was an ongoing and sometimes expensive deal...
I then left things alone and then instead of making massive changes, started "ADDING or incorporating the ideas I got here...the outcome was a better finished product done cheaper and with fewer mistakes....
So yea, I did it without the advise here, but the end product was a combination of info gained here along with my mindset...
One other thing that i have gained from alot here but Turtle still ranks high on the list is simply the way of thinking or looking at this business...being self employed and a business owner most of my adult life, i certaily had my ways of doing things that i brought to this business. But while no 2 businesses are the same, you can meld alot of what you know into multiple businesses..you can do that here to a certain extent, but not has much as one might think...reading here and gaining info from those that came before me let me rethink alot of things and mae those changes in how i do things....and that even goes to my personal life....I am having an very pleasant ongoing PM exchange with a member here that i would have never expected to message me...our exchanges have taken the direction of letting me examine myself and just why i do what i do and how i got there to begin with and how the changes that i have been going through came about...so there is much more to what we take away from here then maybe even we know..i can say that when I started this post the other day, those PM exchanges never came to mind...wow...Thank you!! You know who you are...
Steve, you are not coming off as a "know it all" at all..you are one of those that built this industry to the point where we can and do earn a good income from it..It was you and folks like you that laid that foundation for us. I'd love to read that book one day...while I don't drive a TT or even a ST , over my time here I have gain alot of insight to this business from you and those that are still here from day 1 .... Don't ever look at it like you know it all, without you guys that were here at the beginning, I would have been able to ask the question to begin with...
