Thread: The Job I Just Lost

Very cool! (the cutting boards/party, not the termination)

And good luck for the future.


(on a side note, I wonder how many members have their dogs for avatars?)

First , you have the right attitude. Second, talent always finds it's way, as it is always looked for. GOOD LUCK, but I bet you'll be fine and land on your feet.

Thanks all! Here's another one of the "special projects" I engineered:

Before I was hired by the National Trust I was asked to stop by the estate as a consultant to help solve a problem with the equipment space in the huge painting gallery on the estate. I had measured the opening over the door and made my drawings. Once my design was approved by the NTHP architect in Washington, DC, I was told to go ahead. So I went back to the painting gallery to verify my measurements (it was just about five feet high by six feet wide). I designed and fabricated the triple louvered door panel you see above the entryway. I had to build the doors from scratch. I don't remember how many of those slats I had to cut but it sure was a challenge. I had designed the whole panel as a unit with the three louvered doors held in the outer frame with special hidden hinges. Once it was assembled in the shop (in the next town) I brought it to a buddy's spray booth and gave it four coats of oil based primer. Once the paint dried, I brought the assembly to the estate. My friend Ray came with me to help with the installation. We put up two ladders and carried the big, heavy assembly up for it's first test fit. On the way up the ladders we were pretty certain it wouldn't fit and I'd have to plane down the sides a bit. We put it up to the opening and with a few whacks with a mallet, the frame with its three doors squeaked as it squeezed into place. It never came down and it probably never will. It instantly became a permanent modification to a national historic landmark, and my signature and website are branded into the wood on the inside of all three doors. This job was pretty much my "interview". I was hired full time a month later. If you look to the right of my panel:


In the top picture, that's me. In the bottom picture, that's an eight foot square Andy Warhol of Philip Johnson. So I leave behind a huge, signed work hanging right next to a huge Warhol.

Is that a false leg that I spy?

Originally Posted by JMS

Is that a false leg that I spy?

Wow no it's not but in that picture it sure does look decidedly prosthetical I just checked and I have both originals at the time of this writing.

Originally Posted by icedog

Wow no it's not but in that picture it sure does look decidedly prosthetical I just checked and I have both originals at the time of this writing.

Check again, would you?

Originally Posted by JMS

Check again, would you?

Still two, still mine.