The Wonderlust Journal » articles http://thewonderlustjournal.com Tue, 24 Jan 2012 05:43:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 A Guide to Contractors http://thewonderlustjournal.com/a-guide-to-contractors/ http://thewonderlustjournal.com/a-guide-to-contractors/#comments Mon, 03 May 2010 21:04:00 +0000 Eliza Coleman http://thewonderlustjournal.com/?p=1081
Loved this guide to contractors in Dwell.  Pretty funny and also has some useful tips for making sure all goes well with your contractor.

Here is the intro:

Contractors fascinate me. They always have. They are fundamentally different from other people. They have their own language of sorts and their own curious customs and mannerisms, like Klingons, or French people. They have cool belts and cool stuff (multitools, wee little anodized flashlights, and other things that would be handy to have) fastened to their cool belts. They look different, and they smell different. They smell like work getting done.1 In this perhaps, contractors are not so much like French people.

*1: Like WD-40 and sawdust and Lectric Shave. My race—–the architects—–smells like hotel shampoo and that ozoney smell that wafts up when you fiddle around with the back of your computer.

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