Cowboys

Have you ever used a builder? Have you spent time talking to them? Here's an observation and a generalisation to try on for size. When your builder is explaining the job they will be keen to point out how they are going to do it properly. When they get started they will point out all the previous builder's work they have discovered on your job that has been done badly.

When they inevitably express an opinion of other builders they are generally seen as cowboys. So - and this is the observation - all builders regard all other builders a shoddy cowboys. No one else does a proper job.

Imagine how priiviledged you are to be employing the only good builder in the business*

BTW. This picture has nothing to do with the text, I just liked it.

*Another observation. Building is the only business that is regularly described as a game: "What do you do? Oh, I'm in the Building Game..." 

Try that with other professions: 

Actually, I'm in the Law Enforcement Game...