Sasha: Welcome to another Video
Winston: Well, Hey there guys and welcome to Oklahoma City
I'm here staying with a Patron and Subscriber
Who I will be introducing to you in a very short time
and today I'm talking about
well, Jack of all Trades
Basically, being able to do stuff.
And this is something that, really, just cropped up last night
speaking to my host, Richard.
because this guy's pretty amazing, he does everything himself.
He's really good at building things out of metal,
he messes around with electronics,
I mean, I'll get him to talk about the stuff he does in a short while.
but it just got me thinking, and I don't know anyone in China who does anything similar to that.
and I myself, you know, I fix motorbikes and cars,
and I do everything, I can fix...
if anything goes wrong in the house; plumbing or electricity wise, I normally fix it in China because
you don't really find people are capable of doing these jobs well.
And in China everybody is very specialized,
so you don't get someone who is very well rounded really.
You get people who are really smart and very focused on a specific thing,
so you'll get really good Programmers, or you'll get really good people who do specific things, like accounting
or if they're a laborer or construction working they will do that one job
very well, but you will find that they're actually not capable of doing anything outside of their field of focus
which is kind of strange. A lot of my friends, myself included
tend to like to do things themselves and fix their own little problems in and around the house and things like that.
but in China, [if] anything breaks, you'll call up
probably the closest thing you have to a Jack of all Trades are these guys who run these
hardware stores which are called Wujin Dian which means "Five Metal Shop"
and what they'll do, is they'll come up and fix things here and there.
but once again, they're really only capable of doing
little household things like fix a leaky faucet, or tap, or maybe
do some electrical work for you, that kind of thing
but they don't do anything outside of that, and they never do anything out of passion.
So, I'm going to call in my Patron and Subscriber, here we are
Please introduce yourself to everbody, by the way, thank you very much for having me over.
This is your Shop, right?
Richard: This is my area in this big building, yeah.
So, My name is Richard, I live here in Oklahoma City, and I've been following Winston for about a year
and decided to invite him when I heard about his trip.
Winston: Yeah, cool. So, now
I was telling everybody that you tend to work with your hands a lot, you do a lot of things.
I've personally seen some of the stuff you've done, but maybe you can tell people
some of things you enjoy doing, and making.
Richard: I do a little bit of rough woodworking, nothing fancy or finish, and I
do all sorts of metalwork, from Welding, to, we have a CNC Plasma Table over here
so we make signs, and decorations, and numbers for houses, and
hardware for curtains and windows.
it's more decorative than functional a lot of the time, but it's something that we need.
Winston: Yeah, not only that, you've got a 3D Printer at home
So, he's a bit of a maker, he does all sorts of things. I've seen you tinkering around with your electronics.
Which is cool, I mean, it's very rounded, you wouldn't expect usually someone who does, sort of, Plasma Cutting and Welding
to then go and build electronic circuits and stuff, so it's really cool to see that.
Richard: Yeah, I had the chance to go to a High School in Oregon that had
a very broad offering of courses and one of the courses was in Programming
and I did that, I thought I was going to become a programmer, then I realized I didn't want to sit at a desk,
so I went to school for Engineering and then realized I don't want to work in an office,
so I ended up working for myself.
Winston: Yeah, that's pretty sweet.
Another thing he's really good at is brewing beer, and uh
You know, I got to sample some of it last night
Fantastic job, I couldn't tell the difference between a proper really professional Brew House and what you make, so
Richard: Yeah, I got the chance to give him a couple clones, see if he could tell them apart.
Winston: Yeah, and I couldn't tell the difference, I actually preferred his beer, to be honest.
But you name it, this guy does it himself,
that's the thing, and it just got me thinking that
I honestly haven't met anyone like yourself in China before
I've met people who are incredible capable at doing one specific thing
but not such a broad spectrum of things,
And I think, well at least compared to China, it's fairly common to find people that have a broad
range of skills over here.
Richard: Yeah, we're lucky enough to have multiple of them in the building
and we all work together on some big projects, and it's great.
Winston: Yeah, Awesome, well that's pretty much it guys!
Thank You once again, for watching, and thanks to all the people that came to the Albuquerque Meet Up
that was pretty cool, and we're having another Meet Up tonight in Oklahoma City
if any of you guys are available, come round.
otherwise, you know the drill, as always:
Richard: Stay Awesome