Hit my 1000th set of markups last week and nobody cared

I finally passed 1000 job markups in CAD last Tuesday. Everyone in my office acts like it's just another number, but I've been doing this for 8 years now and that's a lot of redlines. The weird part is I thought I'd feel like an expert, but instead I just notice more mistakes in my old work. Going back through the archive really shows how much faster I work now compared to year one. Has anyone else hit a big count like this and felt the exact opposite of what they expected?

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kai_nguyen18d ago

I hit 800 markups five years in and felt the same way. That archive is a brutal mirror, I swear. But here's the thing - passing 1000 doesnt make you an expert, it just means you got faster at being wrong. And that's actually better in my book. The old work looks bad because you finally know enough to see the rookie stuff you missed. Maybe the office doesnt clap because they dont get what 1000 cycles actually costs in brain power.

jake_dixon17d ago

I read somewhere that hitting 1000 markups is like a pilot logging 1000 flight hours - it doesn't make you a master, it just means you've seen enough mistakes to know what to REALLY watch for. @kai_nguyen nailed it with that "faster at being wrong" line, that's EXACTLY how I felt when I hit my first big milestone.