Lessons Learned

With my client last week we interviewed kids who had done oral histories as part of a class in the local community college. This is what one of them said he learned:


"I think it gives you an insight of how hard things used to be, how different things used to be. Especially when back in the day there was no computers or cell phones. Most of the studying had to be done in the libraries, reading the newspaper, and mostly doing all the reading that you had to do. Now you can just go on Google or go on your phone, ask the question and hopefully you'll get the answer most of the time. So I think it's very important just seeing how hard people used ... how hard it used to be and how dedicated you had to be to even get an eduction." (emphasis was his)

I think this explains a bit why I did well on my Line Producing test and the kids didn't.

My own lessons learned from the project is to over estimate mileage. I did Google directions from my place to the location when I figured out how much mileage to bill them. Came out to about 90 miles. But with picking up Tiffany at her hotel, picking up and dropping off gear, finding lunch in these out of town locations, my actual miles was more like 115. Oops.