Experienced

When hiring a carpenter, or contractor, you need to determine their qualifications; how much experience do they have; that’s important. Over the years, I’ve learned to ask if theirs was good, or bad experience; that’s more important.

I once had two workers replacing the roof on a rental house of mine. Both men were about five years older than me. Jesse was a drywall finisher by trade, and one of the best I’d ever met.

The first time I met Jesse, I asked how long he’d been finishing drywall. “I don’t know,” Jesse replied. “I didn’t want to work at the hog plant, so I worked summers with my uncl...