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Heard a guy at the fuel dock in Houma say something that stuck with me

Was fueling up at R&R Marine in Houma last week and this old timer next to me says 'a smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.' Sounds cheesy but he was talking about how running a bucket dredge in rough conditions taught him more than any manual ever did. Made me think about how we all learn the most from those sketchy jobs where everything goes sideways. Any of y'all got a moment like that where a bad day actually made you better?

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paige42726d ago

Did you always think you had to avoid the rough days? I used to duck every hard job until I realized that's where the real learning happens.

josephl6725d ago

See I gotta call BS on that a little bit lol. I've had plenty of rough days where I didn't learn squat except that I need a better boat or a different crew. There's a difference between a hard job that teaches you something and a stupidly hard job that's just bad luck or bad planning. I swear some guys act like every miserable experience is some deep lesson from the universe when half the time it's just a reminder that cheap gear breaks at the worst moment lol. I'm all for learning through the grind but I ain't gonna pretend dodging a few disasters makes you soft.

valw3625d ago

@paige427 I bet most of us ducked the hard stuff at first. That Houma guy had a point though. I remember one job in the Gulf where the sonar went out and we had to eyeball everything for two weeks. Sketchy as hell but I learned more about reading the bottom in those two weeks than in two years before that. Bad days are just good lessons in disguise if you can laugh about them later.