Gary, while I appreciate Jazz's coming to my defense I understand your reference. I recall clearly a class I took as undergrad comp sci student. The prof was a Navy commander in charge of Balboa Naval Hospital Computer stuff. The class was assembly language programing of the 8086 chip (precursor to pentium.) The commander's comment to me regarding my assignments was that if he ordered a VW bug I would deliver a Cadillac.
I'm familiar with " feature creep", undocumented enhancements, and lots of other cute terms but in many instances I'm just finishing up what I would have hired done if the costs of materials had not gone up by a factor of 2 to 3 during construction, putting us way over our budget and not getting all the finish detail done.
I do have a problem where I tend to think, gee, I can do that myself or I can buy the tools to do that cheaper than hiring it done and do it myself and then have the neat tool(s.) Unfortunately although I can do just about any of the tasks to be done, I can't do ALL the tasks in aggregate in my life expectancy even being optimistic. Although I have achieved that degree of enlightenment in a knowledge format I am having difficulty acting in an appropriate manner as regards actually hiring out some jobs. I am beginning to move a little in that direction and will have a plumber out to trench a line, put in frost free hydrants at the hay barn/corral, fix a leak due to shrinking dirt during drought, and replace a length of water line from the well that got eaten by dozer work. I could do any or all of this myself but hiring it done will give me time to do a bunch of other things I don';t want to hire done.
It isn't easy! There needs to be a 12 step (or 144 step) program for folks like me who try to do it all themselves when better management practice would be to do what you are best at and or enjoy and hire out what you don't like or jobs whose skills are likely to not be needed much so there would be little or no ROI for learning how to do them.
Gee, maybe the first step toward a cure or control at least is recognizing I have the problem and it needs to be addressed!
Pat