Peter Vieira
Wow, you're reading this? Thanks! If you're into RC cars and I seem vaguely familiar, it's because I spent over 25 years writing and editing RC car news, reviews, and tech articles in print and online. What else, what else ... I have a degree in Film Studies (useless), most of a degree in Graphic Design (useful), and I'm married to a wonderful woman with horrible taste in men. Thanks to her, we have a terrific daughter who just earned her Journalism degree and is way, waaay more together that I was at her age. Or right now.
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I did a lot of nodding & smiling reading through people’s reasons here.
Like many here, I started wrenching because I was poor. Kept at it partly cause it kept me out of bars: I never worried about driving home from a junkyard.
I started to wrench as an escape from my humdrum workadaddy corporate drone life. I worked in a world of ideas, meetings about them, and documents about them. The problem is that nothing was ever finished. A project appears, drifts through a succession of emails, phone calls, meetings, and letters. It eventually sort of fades away, but generally can be counted on to pop its ugly head up six months or a years later for: reasons. I even had someone from my company call me at home three years after I retired to ask about an email I had written two years before that. Wrenching, I can see progress and then results.