welderette;
When you've been in this business as long as I have, you'll find a few people like me... My very first Mentor was a guy by the name of Wally Urbick, others HATED him because he was Sooooo dogmatic, me, I worked with him and learned to know why he was the way he was... and learned to love him, in fact, when he died a few years back I cried like a baby!!!
In later years, I have a friend named Walt Sperko, he is amongst the most brilliant of men I have ever known, and makes people like me (no matter how much we THINK we know) realize we know very little about our trade, yet he is ALWAYS there to help me!!!
So, being an old man, if I have managed to help you in some very small way, believe me, the honor is all mine as you have the fire inside you, and it's my belief you too, will one day be one of "the greats!"