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My old lead drafter swore by pencil-only layouts and I ignored him for years
Back when I started at a firm in Denver, the senior guy there told me I should rough out every floor plan by hand before touching CAD. I thought that was a waste of time, so I jumped straight into AutoCAD for like 8 months. Well, I ended up redoing a whole 4,000 square foot commercial layout because I missed a load-bearing wall that the architect caught on paper. Now I sketch every single thing first, takes me 30 minutes tops and saves me hours of fixes. Has anyone else got an old-school tip that actually saved their bacon?
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avery_lopez2mo agoMost Upvoted
Pencil-only layouts? Yeah, I had a similar moment behind the bar. Used to just memorize drink orders and mix on the fly until I started writing everything down on a notepad during rushes. Cut my mistakes way down and made cleanup faster.
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seth6832mo ago
You're acting like forgetting a drink order is some life altering disaster. It's just a drink, man, you mix another one and move on. Write it down if it helps you sleep at night, but this whole "my mistakes went way down" bit feels a little dramatic for pouring a vodka soda.
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