The Lessons I Learnt From My Visit To A Vulcaniser's Shop

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I learnt a few things from the Vulcaniser shop I visited about two weeks ago, I actually wanted to make a diary post with some of the pictures I took of him while working but then I was drawn to something I saw that I think I need to share. Who knows, this might just be a source of encouragement to someone out there.

My boss and I were to visit the farm on this fateful day but he didnt trust the spare tire we had fixed to replaced the damaged tyre from our last visit to the farm. He decided to fix the tire immediately, actually it was beyond repair, he needed a new one and then he drove straight to a Vulcaniser shop.

This is where it got interesting, the conversation between them gave me a picture of the kind of person the Vulcaniser was. He was not random, the visit to his shop was intentional, he had this good customer service mentality and a good rapport with his customer.

Before he asked for his service charge or even negotiate whatever, he had already began the fixing. He didnt have the tyre needed for replacement, he had put a call across to a trusted vendor to bring the tyre needed as he carried out his job, he kept his conversation going, not some serious talk but some casual friendly talk that waters a relationship, if it were to be likened to a garden with vegetables.

One can tell that he is a very hardworking man, and understand his job perfectly. If there's one thing I know about my boss, he doesn't joke with excellence. You don't stop at being just good, you have go beyond being good. If he stays with you, you must be offering real value. This means patronizing and maintaining this relationship for years was because he knows his onion.

I think it's one of the things missing in our society today, only few people really know their job at a very professional level, professionalism is a broad term, its not just in handling tools,it also includes ethics and best practices, not everybody has that and somehow it can determine to an extent how far one will go with one's craft.

His shop doesn't look like an ideal vulganizer shop but he sure knows how to win his customers by serving them the very way they want to be served while he gets paid in return for that service. One might really not have everything one needs to make the business look like what it should really be but the ability to maximize and utilize what one have on ground while working towards getting other things is another lesson one can pick from people like this.

The last lesson I picked from the visit to the Vulganizer's shop is that he was unashamed. The fact remains that not everyone would get a white collar job, nah! We would all be deceiving ourselves if we hold on to such mentality. In fact as I grow older, I'm beginning to detest the 9pm to 5pm job thing, it seems to me like some modern day slavery under a slave master.

Am I saying it's bad? No it's not, as it can be a stepping stone to that very occupation you desire for yourself but staying with it forever can mentally enslave you under another person because the better part of your mental capacity is being utilized by another.

This vulganizer is a boss of his own even though the shop doesn't look like a company to you, I mean something big, but he sure has a kind of freedom, desire and rest that most people working under another do not. He calls the shot and he is proud of what he does.

Come to think of it, why should anyone be ashamed of doing a brown or no collar job, do those who make you feel ashamed pay your bills? Do they really care about you? Are they going to respond when you call? Of course the answers are glaring.

When you know that you are the only one who have your back, you will put shame aside and embrace whatever legit thing you do to put food on your table because you have no explanation whatsoever to give to nobody for doing what you're doing legitimately.

We only went to fix our car but a lot of lessons were learnt in the process. I hope you picked a thing or two from this write up. Thanks for staying with me.

Regards.
@lhorgic❤️