You've got to be an excavator. A hole digger.
You've got to be proficient with a metal detector.
You've got to be, judge, jury, prosecutor, defense, plantif, and defendant. All in one. And when to challenge your own pre conceived ideas.
You have got to be a business man.
You have got to be a social worker.
You have got to be able to read technical manuals.
You have got to learn when equipment sales persons are NOT looking out for your interests. And when they are.
You have got a have a driver's license. (I've let mine lapse, about 2x).
You have to work in the elements. How to keep warm, how to keep cool, how to keep dry.
Become a minor electronics technician. How batteries work. Many kinds.
How software works.?ÿ
Become adept at new concepts.
How to get along with women. Over 50% of the population are women. (I recently met one that couldn't!)
How to get along with bulls, dogs, cows, cats, and miscellaneous critters.
And that's just off the top of my head.... There's more. Alot more!
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Ps, O yeah, and how to get along with drunks, that work nights, and are belligerent, and "can't understand why that lines way over here".
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"A hole digger."
That sums it up quite nicely.
You have to expect the unexpected, and react appropriately when the unexpected occurs.?ÿ
You have to enjoy being treated like the Camp Counselors at a kindergarten roundup