"Robert Green" wrote in message
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In short, WD has failed to teach her how to do nearly everything that ten
years of experience makes it seem easy. There was never any admission she
was in over her head. This was someone else's fault. She did not know
all
the things she needed to know and did not even KNOW how deficient her
knowledge was!

Well I've never had any training on how to fix or modify PCs, yet over the
years (my first PC had an 8088 processor) I've successfully installed hard
drives, audio and video cards, power supplies and so on. I think the trick
is in being able to honestly gauge what one can or cannot do, and in being
able to follow instructions (and know when to call for help). Some people
just don't seem set up for that sort of problem solving. I once ran a
business where we made good money undoing the "repairs" and "customizing"
such folks did....

Putting up a wall must seem the same to some people. At one time, in real
life or on TV, they see some master carpenter put up a wall and it looks
SO
easy. They know they can make all those same motions so off they go,
never
even bothering to check out a Time-Life book from the library (old world)
or
Google it on line (new world).

I find watching someone who knows what he is doing to be way more
educational than an instruction manual could possibly be (at least for me).
And if you're paying attention you notice things, like the carpenter is
driving nails in sort of a criss-cross fashion and without being told why it
seems to make sense. I don't know if this building/fixing ability is
something we're born with (or without) or if it can be learned, but clearly
a lot of otherwise functioning adults don't see to have it. But who knows,
the same people who can't figure out how to hook up a hard drive or nail a
stud in place probably have other talents--at least I hope so.