Doing the work. Rewarding but not easy.
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Apr 27, 2010
Doing the Work
There is no mind calming substitute to being outside and working hard. To this day the original owners of Precision Greens, Shaun and Scott, cannot seem to pry themselves away from the job site. Upon many recommendations to delegate some of the labor work out to younger, more fit personell, we are slow to follow this advice.
Perhaps we are scared to leave the work to others as we don’t know how they’ll do? Maybe we are afraid of becoming complacent behind an office desk? What I think it is more than anything is that it feels good. Doing the work is meditative to some degree. The worries in your business and personal life take a back seat to getting this wheelbarrow full of gravel up your driveway and into your backyard.
As the grunts from getting in and out of the truck get louder with each passing year, the more one thinks that the benefits of having some “hired strength” would pay dividends. I believe I’m writing this blog because the time is near and its our way of letting go of the fun we have had getting dirty. The surfacing and detail work will always be ours, as owners, to perform because it is our detailed workmanship that has set us well apart from the competitors that have come and gone from the Greater Vancouver Synthetic Turf Arena. The wheelbarrows however can be handed over.
So please take it easy on us if you see Shaun or myself telling the young guns where to dump the wheelbarrows as opposed to seeing us ‘old timers’ struggling to do the hard labor ourselves. 10 years of this stuff wears on a guy. Rest assured, the passion has not and will not stop as “doing the work” is still the best part of owning this business.
Perhaps we are scared to leave the work to others as we don’t know how they’ll do? Maybe we are afraid of becoming complacent behind an office desk? What I think it is more than anything is that it feels good. Doing the work is meditative to some degree. The worries in your business and personal life take a back seat to getting this wheelbarrow full of gravel up your driveway and into your backyard.
As the grunts from getting in and out of the truck get louder with each passing year, the more one thinks that the benefits of having some “hired strength” would pay dividends. I believe I’m writing this blog because the time is near and its our way of letting go of the fun we have had getting dirty. The surfacing and detail work will always be ours, as owners, to perform because it is our detailed workmanship that has set us well apart from the competitors that have come and gone from the Greater Vancouver Synthetic Turf Arena. The wheelbarrows however can be handed over.
So please take it easy on us if you see Shaun or myself telling the young guns where to dump the wheelbarrows as opposed to seeing us ‘old timers’ struggling to do the hard labor ourselves. 10 years of this stuff wears on a guy. Rest assured, the passion has not and will not stop as “doing the work” is still the best part of owning this business.
