Therrin

Whoa, that's pretty harsh, to go all the way to calling him a hack.

I only let frank out of the bag on special occasions now, but to call this guy a hack is rough.

I think he's in training right now. You have to have an extended reputation to really be a hack. Using poor technique while learning to be better shouldn't (for long) be held against you.

Think about it, most of you guys went to school for it (some even fresh out of high school), and you had to learn about it from beginning to end, had to be tested and passed before you were released to use your methods on the masses.

Then there's a guy who bumped into this profession while messing around trying to do something for someone. Has a background of high-risk activity and figures "what the hell" right? Except that from the very point he starts to work without the right training, he's immediately in over his head and creating mal-practice from day one.
Completely mired down with the working assumption that he was already on track, not knowing the depth of the the industry.

That really sucks!
I'd suppose that as long as he was trying to learn as much as possible, kind of using the mantra "do no harm" in the mean time and not working on any live trees, you really can't hold the first couple years of his work against him can you?

Maybe we're being kinda harsh? I think what he does down the road is what decides the "HACK" title.
Finding that you can make good money at something you're not good at is one thing, but staying sedentary in that line of thought is what hacks do.

I seem to recall that some of all you guys have knocked expensive things over in your early careers.

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