10,000 Hour Rule

"I Will Always Be The Honey Badger" (iwillalwaysbethehoneybadger) 08/18/2016 at 02:05 • Filed to: None

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Better get started, indeed.

Birddog > I Will Always Be The Honey Badger 08/18/2016 at 03:03

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That doesn’t include overtime. I got my Master license after 3.5 years.

It’s a pretty antiquated metric honestly. It’s based on Skilled Trades. Plumber, Electrician, Machinist Apprenticeships.. Not many people are electing for those anymore.

Alfalfa > Birddog 08/18/2016 at 03:10

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They really should be though, with the cost of a “traditional” degree.

Alfalfa > I Will Always Be The Honey Badger 08/18/2016 at 03:10

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I wish I could take 6 weeks of vacation a year...

Birddog > Alfalfa 08/18/2016 at 03:22

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No doubt. How many Art Majors or Middling Managers can we produce?

Somehow in Iowa and a few other states Apprenticeships earn College credits too. A good Journeyman plumber can make $35 an hour plus with employer paid benefits.

Alfalfa > Birddog 08/18/2016 at 03:28

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There’s a serious negative connotation nowadays with blue collar jobs. The attitude when I graduated high school was that you would never make a decent living without a bachelors. The funny part is, that’s made these jobs even better choices in the last decade.

Hell, everyone my age at my company is a drooling moron. In a decade or so, the higher up positions are basically mine for the taking.

Birddog > Alfalfa 08/18/2016 at 03:50

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I switched gears back in the 90s. After watching my parents get “right sized” from International, Navistar, Dresser and Kumatsu? Without ever leaving the same building they’d been in since the 1960s? I realized that a BA or BS wasn’t where it was at. It meant 5 more years at home but it paid off. Education is as big business as anything. They need Gov’t money and have to justify it somehow.

The Trades aren’t pushing for anything right now because fewer people means higher wages. Higher wages mean more Dues. They can become selective again and start waiting lists or require test ins.

BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires > I Will Always Be The Honey Badger 08/18/2016 at 04:29

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So, if I’m doing a job that’s nothing to do with a craft I want to master, I’ve got to do that on my own time...

Bugger.

This is going to take a while :S

random001 > I Will Always Be The Honey Badger 08/18/2016 at 06:12

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For anyone still listening, this is likely a reference to the Gladwell book Outliers, wherein he posits that it takes 10,000 hours of practice to master anything, so “craft” in this instance is whatever it is that you do that you want to master as a practice.

Ash78, voting early and often > random001 08/18/2016 at 08:37

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That’s right, and I believe most of the studies in there were things like musical instruments or foreign languages. In most of the rest of life, “mastery” of anything requires chasing a moving target because regulations, standards, and innovation are a moving target (unlike language and music, which move very slowly )

random001 > Ash78, voting early and often 08/18/2016 at 08:48

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They also did sports and engineering in the book. It’s basically anything that can be practiced, like calculus, or MATLAB, or CAD software, or programming, or welding, etc.

Ash78, voting early and often > random001 08/18/2016 at 09:11

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Interesting...yeah, I could see a lot of that (I haven't read the book, but I'm familiar with it). In a lot of business, the regulation changes so quickly that your skillset can't ever be truly mastered in most cases. CPAs, for example, are nearly obsolete every 10 years or so, depending on what field of accounting you're in. If you're not keeping up with the constant changes, you can't really compete.

Urambo Tauro > I Will Always Be The Honey Badger 08/18/2016 at 09:13

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I wonder how much driving I’ve done?

It’s too late to start logging every hour, but I could probably come up with a rough estimate based off of my commute times and typical schedule...

random001 > Ash78, voting early and often 08/18/2016 at 09:30

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Well, I would wager that there are a set of fundamental skills in anything, including CPA-land, that are pretty constant and could be mastered. Then it’s just keeping up with the changes in regs. But I could be wrong.