So true, so much stuff those college professors told me that I did not quite believe, only recently on some issues am I like "ooooh, that's what she meant".

On all this handyman and construction stuff I have been doing over the last five years as a "career". I figure by the time I can do every single aspect of building houses from the ground up, and doing it well, I will not be physically able to do it. The best I can hope for is having the tools and knowhow to supervise crews on that.

Today, I was fixing a neighbor's fence, more like rebuilding a section of it, on a whim, she added the job of fixing a garden structure, which I figured out a solution to which saved a lot of trouble, so on another whim, while we were there, she wanted a tree removed. I figured, heck, we can do that. Went and grabbed the battery powered chainsaws and went to work on it for three hours. Turned out that others had turned it down and gotten scared since it was pretty close to the house, but we both knew how to work with ropes and straps to tug on branches as one guy worked them with the chainsaw.

As I was leaving, I said, "oh, I did that for a summer when I was in college", thinking it was like, not so long ago and this tree was smallish, so why am I so sore. Then subtracting 1995 from 2015, oh shit...20 years ago. And thinking, "how the heck did this chainsaw get so worn out... thaat's right, I did that small forest at the survival retreat..."

It happens when you keep doing shit, experience adds up.