I learn from my mistakes. This is something I’m quite good at. I try to avoid making the same mistake more than once.
Life doesn’t suck…
because I learn from my mistakes
I consider myself quite smart. They say that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different outcome. Today I spent three hours trying to fix my cellphone because I didn’t want to pay someone between fifty and one hundred dollars to do it.
I was too proud to pay to have something done that I knew I could do myself. My cellphone needed a new battery. I decided to buy a cheap one on TradeMe and fit it myself. This cost me just under twenty dollars.
Due to my inexperience, as I was opening the phone I managed to rip the ribbon cable leading to the home button. I also managed to lose three of the minute screws on the floor at work at different times.
All up the experience cost me around twenty dollars. This wasn’t bad but I spent around two hours trying to remedy the situation with the cable and get all the tiny parts out and then in again.
I charge one hundred dollars an hour in my job. This means that the two hours I spent trying to rectify the issue that I caused while trying to save fifty-odd dollars cost me two hundred dollars worth of time. This also left me with a phone that doesn’t function as well as it would have had I paid a professional to fix it.
My lesson learned here is that it’s better to pay a professional to do a job that they have done over and over again. Why do a job yourself if a professional can do it faster and better, especially if they charge less for the time to do the job that it would take you to do it.
I am grateful to learn from my mistakes and next time I won’t repeat these same mistakes.
Current gratitude streak: 53 days
Did you miss my post from yesterday? Read it here Gratitude, Day 52: I’m grateful for my thirst for information