Summarized and slightly adapted from the comments below.
Be Patient
Carry a pencil
Carry some paper
crawl/climb over things
Defer to those with more knowledge
Find an alarm clock that works
Having fun in stressful situations
how to clean things
How to handle idiotic comments
How to handle negative criticism
How to make any object a hammer
know when something is too big to fit before you move it there
Know when to smile and nod and when to not smile and nod
Knowing different names for tools, and slang for things
knowing how to call in when you oversleep, because you will.
knowing when it is ok to fuck up and when it isn't
Laughing at your mistakes
Learn to spell
make things fit in box
make things fit in dumpster
make things fit on rack
Play well with others
Prepare for work
remember its us and not me and them.
Remember lists of numbers
Remember names
Show up early
Speak up with new ideas diplomatically
When and How to sleep
Write things down
Now, were I continuing with this exercise, I would likely separate the list into clumps to form course units. I'll have to ponder that.
Friday, March 03, 2006
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3 comments:
I need to add: Do the same thing over and over again in exactly the same way.
Even more, from another source:
Read the instructions.
Look it up in the manual.
Measure the door before you move (build) the item.
Remember people's names.
Open a beer bottle without a tool.
Look where your other hand is before you fire the pneumatic stapler.
Convert metric to English and English to metric in your head.
Speak clearly.
Don't use slang for the sake of using slang.
Keeping your mouth shut until you get to the bar.
Keeping your mouth shut at the bar.
and from another country:
Know what's next.
I couldn't agree more.
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