[Still Thinking]

The lawn is a minutely small issue in the realm of things, and depends on the profession --- and how busy a person is. Obviously exceptions abound, but you take 20-30 factors like this and put it together.

OK, disregard my previous post. Lawn care IS probably predictive enough to include in a shopping list of 20-30 items. From your post it sounded like you'd hire or fire someone based solely on his lawn.

[MeanWestTexan]

". . . From your post it sounded like you'd hire or fire someone based solely on his lawn . . ."

Definately not! I just like to know EVERYTHING I can about a person before I put the lives of a drilling crew and millions of my and other participants dollars in his hands.

And that includes personal practices.

Good engineers are typically slightly neurotic, obsesive-compulsive, detail-oriented (to the extreme) Dockers-wearing people.

This personality generally spills out into their lawns, their cars, their wives, kids, etc.