About 20 years past, helped a friend of a friend build a manufacturing process, get accredited, and wrote some templates for his QA, QC, NRTL submittals, etc. D

About 20 years past, helped a friend of a friend build a manufacturing process, get accredited, and wrote some templates for his QA, QC, NRTL submittals, etc. Did this mostly gratis. Got many good references, which became the beginning of a side business. Got my pilot's license and instrument rating through the old military flying club system (while all else were getting drunk on liberty). It has oft been the difference between servicing a happy client or perhaps getting hit with a tort (the latter has yet to happen directly to me, but it has happened to a member of the consortium because he was not able to get to a site before a critical deadline.