RE: Second Gun - big game hunting
Ridge dont make the mistake of equating that experience= knowledge. Knowledge is the result of what you have learned from your experiences and how you apply that knowledge to further your learning. I will provide a real life example.
Approx 8 years ago I was running the field service department for an industrial engine distributor. We had 9 full time technicians 2 of which had 27 and 30 years of experience respectively. They had far more factory training and years of experience, than any of the other service technicians. Yet they were without question the weakest technicians with regard to overall skills and troubleshooting in general.
In factI hired a 22 year old technicianwith near zero experience and training prior to being hired. At the end of an 18 month employment I and other management agreed that the new hire was already better than the two senior techs at trouble shooting and repairs. Despite the obvious skills of the new hire the senior technicians constantly berated the new hire.(Kind of like you always seem to do)
The idea that I did it longer and therefore are correct does not hold water. Present you opinon and back it up with facts, instead of constantly demeaning others that post on this site.