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Old 08-31-2002 | 04:25 PM
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Default Wow, tough problem to handle

This is a toughie for me to even imagine. But if you really don't want to build, then maybe ARF's are for you. That's one reason why the ARF's are becoming so popular, and why it's even getting hard to find some planes in a kit form at all.

But here is what motivates me to build. My wife and I own our own business. We do computer/network consulting and sometimes we work 40-60 hours in what can be a very stressful environment (like when payroll is due and a server has crashed. ). So we both have to have our ways of releasing the stress. Mine is this hobby. I fly on the weekends, and build during the week (when I'm not swamped with the business). I have found that it is the best medicine for me to blow off steam. I get away from my own computers, turn the TV on in the background, and lose myself at the building table. It's great mental medicine to be able to just think about the plane. Concentrate on good building techniques. Watch a pile of pieces slowly come together into a thing of beauty.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that you just need to find that place in your mind where you can concentrate on building. And if you can't, then there are always ARF's (like I said earlier).