[idrios]

They sound like a great hire to me. If you needed an electrician to wire your house, would you rather hire someone who likes to get inspired and find creative ways to do electrical wiring, or someone who just wants to do the best and most documented practices while saving their creativity for personal projects

[tonyarkles]

How about someone who cares about why you're trying to get a 200A circuit run to your garage and can provide feedback and point out things that they've seen before that could make your life easier. Or, like in my current situation, I really hope an electrician can come up with a creative solution to my current house wiring situation because it seems like it's going to be a huge hassle and the previous owner has painted us into a corner.

[idrios]

My own current situation is that I work with an electrician who found a hard-but-solved problem and wanted his own solution to it. He is now the only person who understands the wiring he did, and if he ever leaves the company we'll also need to find a creative person to work on it, or else throw it all out and start over.

EDIT: just be clear I'm still actually talking about software