Working Bee skills
I came… I saw… I shovelled mulch… crap loads of mulch.
It happens every year at college that we have a working bee, well, 2 working bees a year in fact, and each time we shovel crap loads of mulch. I mean tones!
But today we also painted stuff, and watched cricket in the lounge room… not so bad.
It’s good getting out in the fresh air and doing some manual labour. It reqiures little thinking, and there’s a good feeling of accomplishment and productivity when you look back and see an ocean of mulch you’ve shovelled with your own 2 blistered hands.
A couple of guys in 1st year used to be chippies and have put there skills to good use building new door jams and hanging new doors on all the cabins. They’ve done a great job, and i think they rightly get a deduction in their college fees for all their hard work.
The usefullness of their past trade begs the question of myself… What the hell can I do with a sprinkler fitter trade behind me? …not much. Oh yeah, I can weld, I can do some plumbing, I can cut and thread pipe, drill holes, and a whole bunch of stuff, but not without my sprinkler tools. And there’s not much requirement for specialist sprinkler skills when there’s no sprinkler system… I could move the fire hose reel to an equally convenient spot to where it is now just to make myself feel extra useful, but really…
Nevertheless, one day my day will come to shine! I’ll be at a big Youthworks meeting in St Andrews house at Townhall and a sprinkler will go off and a beaming ray of sunshine will flood through the window and illuminate my face, the halelujah chorus will sound, and I’ll spring to my feet to save the day! …………..By calling the contracted fitters to come and fix it…