Mistakes Were Made
February 11, 2025 Uncategorized 0 comment igreenwood25
There are times in everyones life where you make mistakes. Accepting the fact that you can be wrong is not very easy, especially if it is an argument and you’re confident with your facts and then get proven wrong. Everybody makes mistakes but not everyone can own up to them. Making mistakes isnt a bad thing, it gives you learning oppitunities for the next time. In my opinion, making mistakes is a big part of learning and not making them again in the future. Here is a story on how I made a mistake and owned up to it, like a person should.
The other day I made a mistake at LRTC during carpentry class. I was shingling the house we have been working on. It was a cold day outside and maybe I wasn’t thinking right. The house I have been working on was built from the 2023 graduating class and as the 2025 graduating class we’re on the road to completing the house. The house is a double wide, ranch style we started roofing about two weeks previous to this and finished yesterday. The house is at the end and forgot to nail the top of the shingle to not go over the seam. This is when it got a little tricky. After I nailed a couple down I realized I messed up and had to rip up all my work and start over and thats just a learning mistake. I luckily did this while practicing ,then a real world experience and will teach me to remember to nail it correctly over a seam. The mistake I made cost me only a extra 30 minutes but, its not just that its I almost wasted a whole bundle ( approximately $45) would’ve been close to $300-400 if I didn’t catch my mistake when I did. I was very glad I caught and could fix it before it got bad. My teacher understands we make mistakes, to an extent, but if it happened again there would have been a consequence. I’m lucky to have an understanding teacher at LRTC. He showed me the right way to do it and now I don’t think I’ll ever make that mistake again. My teacher told me “I hope you learn from that”. That’s when I said “You know I will teacher”.
I accepted the mistake so I really don’t know how the outcome would have been if we just left it as is and kept going. The roof would have had to be re-shingled, not just a couple of them. What I learned from this mistake was it is to ask questions before doing something you’re not confident in, just ask someone first who might know, it doesn’t hurt to ask, compared to being a know it all. Being able to fix your own mistakes and own up to them will help you succeed in this type of work force because it shows you’re a problem solver and will be able to get through it.
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