mahlere,
Thanks for your thoughts. This was one job that I learned a few lessons from. I'll chalk it all up to my career as a aviation guy in the past. I got my journeyman certificate in the early 70's and did some work as an electrician then before I left the business after being bitten by the flying bug.
I'm finding that getting back into EC work is a bit difficult because I was used to dealing with highly professional people who would respect the opinions of others and I find that is not the case with some of the clients I deal with now. So I guess I'm and easy sucker for being used by HO's with less than stellar intelligence. The one thing I do have is time on my side, since I do not have to rely on the income from EC work so I'm able to do dumb things like take the time educate the HO so they fully understand the implications of the decisions they make.
I don't think I will go quite so far the next time this kind of situation comes up (and I know it will), but it does provide some comfort to the folks I do the work for when they can see that there is a right way and a wrong way to get a job done. I think it must be working because I've now got jobs booked into the middle of June just by word of mouth references.
Cheers,
Dave
