I'm not really good at seeing the big picture, and believe I would be helped if I could.
As a technician, you sound like your attention to detail is working against you?
As a remedy, I'm planning to take a course online on "vital signs", with the online university consortium based out of California called www.courser.org.
Sometimes it's good to be a micromanager(like in a nuclear facility) and sometimes it's not.
I have to stretch out my legs now after a walk.