level 2

This was a good meeting and reminds me of when I worked for a research and development company. I have always believed that when you work for a company that you should give a 100% of your time and effort. I was hired on as a maintenance mechanic but because I had welding knowledge the foreman put me in the weld shop cutting three inch armor plate. The guy that was doing the job before me was moved to a different area. He was averaging about twenty blocks a day with De-slagging and grinding the edges to remove sharp spots. buy trying different speeds I increased this block count from twenty to to fifty blocks with De-slagging and grinding the edges. This empresses management so much that I was promoted and moved to the test site, where they do experiments with explosives, as a set up person. I made test stands and arranged target configurations for different engineering experiments. Because I have an attention to detail I became the number one test set up person on the test site. I attribute this to seeing the big picture and willing to work hard and try new approaches to achieve the best outcome. Its like a ten second miracle in realizing that the way things where being done was not very productive and by experimenting a little I doubled out put. Buy giving the engineers exactly what the plans called for I gained their trust and respect and increased my pay. My predecessor was more interested in doing just enough to get by and keep his job. He even suggested that I was making him look bad and I should back off a little. Well, I was not hired to slack off. I progressed and he did not.