ArkansasDon
Adventurist
You ever notice on some forums or groups people want to build a trailer or vehicle modification's that some folks need their hand held during the entire project? & it's not even that, just things in life. I'm turning 60 yrs old this year & did all kinds of modification's & frame off rebuilds in the early 1980's into the mid 1990's. The only access to information back then was from magazines, manuals, auto parts manufactures or stores, chatting with fellow offroaders, drag racers & trial & error. The internet didn't even exist. Nowadays the internet can supply us with tons of good information & a general direction on just about any project we wish to tackle.
Here's what I do not understand & my gripe, we all have the ability to learn, but I find that some folks on this earth seems to need continuous hand held guidance & or wanting all the information so they do not have to put any effort looking \ research. It seems they can not function w\o some one actually drawing the entire picture out for them with arrow pointing to the links, answers & step by step illistrations. I am not talking about some one looking for answer to a question on electrical which I have asked here a few times. Electrical isn't a my forte so seeking information that double checks a typical 12v. wire diagram on the internet is a good thing IMO. What I get tired of & is a annoyance is some need that hand held step by step, send me a link, how did you do that, where can I get that mentality. Most of us who walk on this earth owns a computer, phones with internet service. It doesn't take a whole lot of effort to google a search for a product some one posted on a forum that you want to use or install. I never built a trailer more less a offroad trailer. My 1st offroad trailer I done 6 months of research before I even started the actual build, 9 1\2 months to complete. Lots of pencil sketches, writing a budget & listing parts, checking & double checking. The last time I done anything like this was back in California (Central Coast) in my earlier yrs, 1946 Willy's CJ2A : frame off build that took 18 months to complete, 1966 Chev El Camino Drag car w\400 D Stroke Small Block, 2 speed auto trans, 456 gears. In 1994 a frame off rebuild of 1972 Suzuki LJ20. Most of the parts for the LJ20 I ordered from Canada & Australia since the U.S. had very few of these here. Lots of phone calls that some one knew of some friend who knew this guy were to get these parts from. GOD gave us a brain, nothing was ever handed to me nor I ever needed my hand held for anything that I couldn't figure out or research. Maybe I am different or just old school & how I was raised. Some times I see people who are almost sleep like that they can not fend for themselves or are willing not to learn or even try. Makes me wonder how these type of people will really make it in life. I made plenty of mistakes on projects I done, how else will you learn, this goes in life too. Lastly I am not saying asking for help is a bad thing, it's a good thing, what I am trying to say is the continuous laziness that comes from people who want it all handed to them.
Here's what I do not understand & my gripe, we all have the ability to learn, but I find that some folks on this earth seems to need continuous hand held guidance & or wanting all the information so they do not have to put any effort looking \ research. It seems they can not function w\o some one actually drawing the entire picture out for them with arrow pointing to the links, answers & step by step illistrations. I am not talking about some one looking for answer to a question on electrical which I have asked here a few times. Electrical isn't a my forte so seeking information that double checks a typical 12v. wire diagram on the internet is a good thing IMO. What I get tired of & is a annoyance is some need that hand held step by step, send me a link, how did you do that, where can I get that mentality. Most of us who walk on this earth owns a computer, phones with internet service. It doesn't take a whole lot of effort to google a search for a product some one posted on a forum that you want to use or install. I never built a trailer more less a offroad trailer. My 1st offroad trailer I done 6 months of research before I even started the actual build, 9 1\2 months to complete. Lots of pencil sketches, writing a budget & listing parts, checking & double checking. The last time I done anything like this was back in California (Central Coast) in my earlier yrs, 1946 Willy's CJ2A : frame off build that took 18 months to complete, 1966 Chev El Camino Drag car w\400 D Stroke Small Block, 2 speed auto trans, 456 gears. In 1994 a frame off rebuild of 1972 Suzuki LJ20. Most of the parts for the LJ20 I ordered from Canada & Australia since the U.S. had very few of these here. Lots of phone calls that some one knew of some friend who knew this guy were to get these parts from. GOD gave us a brain, nothing was ever handed to me nor I ever needed my hand held for anything that I couldn't figure out or research. Maybe I am different or just old school & how I was raised. Some times I see people who are almost sleep like that they can not fend for themselves or are willing not to learn or even try. Makes me wonder how these type of people will really make it in life. I made plenty of mistakes on projects I done, how else will you learn, this goes in life too. Lastly I am not saying asking for help is a bad thing, it's a good thing, what I am trying to say is the continuous laziness that comes from people who want it all handed to them.