Getting the job done (by others)
Not to brag, but I respond well to the “to do” list of tasking. Had to use it in my working life; still do at home. Helps to motivate me. I can imagine if my income depended on getting through the accumulated lines of my calendar, I’d do OK.
In sharp contrast: almost every general contractor I’ve come into contact with over the last few years. My luck with finding someone to finish the basement, or enlarge the driveway, or fix a faulty door… weak to not at all. What is it? The colours of my money? My distance from the big city? I just don’t know.
Had to send a “remember me” about a problem with my roof line. Original message sent (and read) back just before Groundhog Day. Forwarding that same message close to six months later reminds me (more than the contractor) that the system is flawed.
Request to dump some gravel in the area where we wanted to place the planting beds: received, estimated, never done. We put the planters elsewhere.
Request to enlarge the driveway… in progress. I am supposed to see someone with an excavator on Monday (after ten days of waiting). Hope springs eternal, etc. This time around, I need the job to be done, long before any snow comes to obscure things.
And then the basement? Three years in, and since I hung the doors, no progress. I don’t want to develop my skills in spreading mud on the walls. Surely someone wants the work. A mystery, without a Sherlock solution.
