01 September 2010
Off the curent topic
When speaking of new farriers, I say the last three things a person right out of shoeing school needs is a fancy truck, an acrylic gun, and a book of horses to shoe. The only thing that drives me crazier than seeing somebody fresh out of shoeing school with a fancy new shoeing rig is the fact that I won't have the cash to buy it when that person quits, and they do.
It's funny, back in the day when I was still trying to figure out who I was, I worked for this employment agency and they sent me out on this job where they were stripping the inside of a warehouse. The guy who was the foreman on the job, asked me what I was doing there, because I was no "demo man." I told him I needed the job. He said I wasn't any good at it and told me I should go find work with someone who shoes horses until I could get my own work together. The way he said it was way cruder than that, but I wasn't offended when he got his point across in that I was in his way and demolition wasn't my calling. But try dropping that on a 30 year old who just got done paying tuition, etc., on a shoeing school. They don't take it as well.
I have a lot of stories like that. People knew for whatever reason I was going to make it in this business, by the same token I now can tell a person if they are going to be a farrier a year from today after working with them once. There is something about people who are going to make it as farriers. Whether it's attitude or stubbornness, I don't know. But to use a term Arabian people use concerning horses for various disciplines, we have 'it." The "it" being the right mentality, attitude, hunger, whatever the "it" is we have it, and we know those who don't.
It's funny, back in the day when I was still trying to figure out who I was, I worked for this employment agency and they sent me out on this job where they were stripping the inside of a warehouse. The guy who was the foreman on the job, asked me what I was doing there, because I was no "demo man." I told him I needed the job. He said I wasn't any good at it and told me I should go find work with someone who shoes horses until I could get my own work together. The way he said it was way cruder than that, but I wasn't offended when he got his point across in that I was in his way and demolition wasn't my calling. But try dropping that on a 30 year old who just got done paying tuition, etc., on a shoeing school. They don't take it as well.
I have a lot of stories like that. People knew for whatever reason I was going to make it in this business, by the same token I now can tell a person if they are going to be a farrier a year from today after working with them once. There is something about people who are going to make it as farriers. Whether it's attitude or stubbornness, I don't know. But to use a term Arabian people use concerning horses for various disciplines, we have 'it." The "it" being the right mentality, attitude, hunger, whatever the "it" is we have it, and we know those who don't.
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