Stop in for a cup of coffee

Saturday and im out to a old customers shop im very close with to continue to fab my very simple very basic gantry crane
Im really done with P/T work, im less than a month away from the big 70 so I guess its do time.
I just quit my only other p/t job and its bothering me as I left under unhappy circumstances
Funny thing was the owner is a great guy but the mechanic who would tell me what needed repair is a controlling narcissist person, who has broken my balls for a year now and ive had just about enough of his ****.
While I listen to anyone and their ideas, take it into consideration and talk the strategy of how to go about any repair when a guy is wrong im not going along just to flatter his ego.
Monday was the last straw and it was about a job I must have done God only knows how many times the last 40 years. I tried to explain over and over the why's and the why nots.
When I asked for a 10 foot piece of heavy angle/ tubing/ pipe to use a spreader bar, I got a hard time
Again explaining why but still skepticism.
******* me out of work, keeping me home when I would have been happy with one day a week.
The problem is he is a immigrant who is smart and a good mechanic, also works 2 jobs.
He doses exactly what I did when I was his age, the difference is I did it 30 years longer than him
Other immigrants that dont have the experience he does, gravitate to him for advice and help.
When I worked as a journeyman welder/boilermaker/ mechanic in power generation and later on ship repair, I had a lot of heavy repair experience were we did it all.
I wasn't a superstar, I was just another competent journeyman who was serious about his job.
Another man's life depended on how good I did my job and I took the responsibility seriously.
I was a big fish in a ocean of other big fish. He is a big fish in a little pond. Added his ego and his personality he assumed to extend his attitude on me and it would never work
So here I am venting and frustrated
Either way its been a good run
Thanks for reading and have a great weekend