Crazyraceguy
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After being talked into staying longer twice in the last couple of years, I finally did it. I finished the last little bits of a couple of jobs and started breaking down my set-up. The company is/was really great about it. They let me keep most of the "furniture" that I have built since we moved to this facility.
I spent the afternoon and most of today cleaning up and disassembling things. I threw away (or gave away) 6 years' worth of jigs/templates and bundled up a massive collection of off-cuts/scrap.
I also pitched almost all of the folders, saving a couple of special ones. I have saved (and filed in order) the folder/shop drawings for nearly every job I have done. It was mostly for an easy back-up, in case of issues later. I often write notes on the pages, depicting "as built" rather than what the drawing might have shown. Sometimes those are not the same thing. They made a great reference. It would have been nice, if there was an easy way to add a "finished" pic to each of them too, but it would have taken more space. I do have a lot of them on my phone, but they weren't all interesting enough to bother with it. Some were just what I call "cocktail napkin drawings). Most of those didn't have a proper folder, just a page or 2 with a hand drawn scribble, along with some of the dimensions.
The very last job I did was one of those. It was just a few pics of something existing, with the explanation of "duplicate, with the only difference of adding casters"
I'm already feeling weird. It's an unnatural thing, that I'm going to have to get used too. I'm just tired of driving nearly 50 miles a day, at one time 6 days a week. Challenges have morphed into annoyances, and I just need to do my own thing. 50 years of working for someone else is enough.
I'm not done building/making things, but my concentration will shift more toward furniture for myself, family, friends. etc. as my space drops from a few thousand square feet, down to under 400.
I spent the afternoon and most of today cleaning up and disassembling things. I threw away (or gave away) 6 years' worth of jigs/templates and bundled up a massive collection of off-cuts/scrap.
I also pitched almost all of the folders, saving a couple of special ones. I have saved (and filed in order) the folder/shop drawings for nearly every job I have done. It was mostly for an easy back-up, in case of issues later. I often write notes on the pages, depicting "as built" rather than what the drawing might have shown. Sometimes those are not the same thing. They made a great reference. It would have been nice, if there was an easy way to add a "finished" pic to each of them too, but it would have taken more space. I do have a lot of them on my phone, but they weren't all interesting enough to bother with it. Some were just what I call "cocktail napkin drawings). Most of those didn't have a proper folder, just a page or 2 with a hand drawn scribble, along with some of the dimensions.
The very last job I did was one of those. It was just a few pics of something existing, with the explanation of "duplicate, with the only difference of adding casters"
I'm already feeling weird. It's an unnatural thing, that I'm going to have to get used too. I'm just tired of driving nearly 50 miles a day, at one time 6 days a week. Challenges have morphed into annoyances, and I just need to do my own thing. 50 years of working for someone else is enough.
I'm not done building/making things, but my concentration will shift more toward furniture for myself, family, friends. etc. as my space drops from a few thousand square feet, down to under 400.