I have a strange learning curve, I always have.

I can pick up most anything in a couple of weeks. No, I won’t be a master in that time, but I can get by. Cabinetmaker, carpenter, mechanic, machinist, electrician, the list is plenty long. No, I’m not a master of those things, but I am a journeyman at several of them, I became a journeyman machinist in 1984, a journeyman electrician in 1988. The gist of those things, the most important skills I needed to do those jobs, I learned in the first few weeks. The years following reinforced the skills, set them in concrete so they’re hardwired in me, I’ll always have them. When I started doing CAD I spent an intense couple weeks doing first 2d cad, (in the late 80’s) and 3d cad/solid modeling (late 90’s)
I’ve gotten better at both, but the core skills were there very quickly.
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