Was it the desert sun that changed your mind? I had a similar slap in the face on a job in Nevada where the concrete kept splitting like a dry riverbed. Throwing in some polymer stuff fixed it almost overnight, no joke. It cost a bit more but saved us from redoing whole sections. Sometimes you just gotta eat the extra cost to avoid the headache later.

My old coding mentor swore by hourly breaks but I thought it was silly until I tried it. Now I set a timer to stand up and chug water every 45 minutes or I'll just forget. He'd probably laugh at me for finally listening after years of ignoring it.

Contracts can really mess you up without that clause. What specific things should it cover? Like, if a payment is late or a job isn't done right? Is there a basic template people follow, or does every contract need its own list? I've seen some that only help one person. How do you write it so both sides are treated fairly?