Sweeeeet! :D :D

nights at to bad here i was on days for a while but its so slow here that they are lookin for any reason to get rid of someone so it got stressful expessaly on slow days. Now when i get to work everyone above me goes home. So the hours suck but its so much more laid back. i would never go back to days at this company

I build houses/ buildings/ remodeling----had my own business for over30 years :wink: :wink:
The business has never really slowed down/ i do almost all my own work. :? :shock:
I am very picky and just rather blame myself if something isn't right 8) 8)
I work alot of insurance storm damage[good money!!]
Just about all hours at times[ weather controls alot of things!!!]
I DON'T WORK WELL WITH PUSHY BOSSES--that is another reason to work for myself.
LIVELY

I DON'T WORK WELL WITH PUSHY BOSSES--that is another reason to work for myself.
LIVELY[/quote]

Lively: I would NEVER thought that YOU would NOT WORK WELL WITH PUSHY BOSSES...

I drive a redi-mix truck. Some days are pretty interesting. I get to take a $180,000.00 truck lock it in 6 wheel drive and go off road like I stole it.
Before that I owned my own set of gravel trains (a set of double dumps) for 20yrs. Gave that up after an old lady pulled out in front of me. Not pretty at 56,000lbs empty. 164,000lbs loaded. Kinda took the fun out of it. :(

TO ERR is human....TO BLAME someone else, shows good management skills.

Well i guess that i am the only construction trash on here! :D Electrical Superintendent for URS Corporation. I myself work nights and i like nights cooler and less B.S. and no FREAKIN MEETINGS!

and NO freaking LIFE

I love meetings, It gives me time to take a nap. :lol:

Everybody seems to do interesting stuff, but me lol... I am just drive a Kenworth around and make a couple bucks when everything isnt super slow... Only worked 1 day this week, but Oh well at least I am at the Division 3 race at National trails. Had a .000 light and went 10.899 on my 10.90 index so I think I am dialed!

nothing wrong with that.(other than its not a Peterbilt haha) I do the same thign for my old man when im slow i jsut steal his truck and run some loads for him i cant sit still gota be doin something. And there nothing better then drivin a semi everyone gets outa your way. But the way they build them now is jsut junk was goin buy my dads truck and go trucking but the market sucks as bad as the new trucks

IF YA THINK THE NEW TRUCKS SUCK , DRIVE MY OLD GMC BRIG 30 YRS OLD & WILL MAKE YA WORK FOR YOUR MONEY. :lol: WORK IS SO SLOW FOR US DUMPS THE TRUCK HASN'T MOVED IN A MONTH. I AM GLAD ITS NOT THE ONLY THING I DO. I AM A BUILDING OPS MANAGER & DO FLEET MAINTENANCE AT NIGHT.

i would drive that befor i would want one of these new emssion trucks. Less power and sucks more fuel. a few weeks ago i had a guy order a spark plug for his cat. thats just not right

One commonality everyone says is our economy SUCKS. My dealer sales are down.... less money... etc. I figure I can leech off of the Obama system if I starve.... NOT.

Hey Scoot, I'll starve before begging from that communist SOB.........

I wear a whole bunch of hats and all at the same time it seems :shock:
My main bread and butter is plastic headlight lens restoration in the Treasure Valley(Boise) area of Idaho. 2 years ago I was servicing over 200 used car lots averaging 20 -30 cars a day, I'm now down to 8 lots plus any retail I can scare up. Been in business for 5 years and have restored over 10,000 headlight lenses so far, most of them in the first 3 years.

My other hats are steel fabbing, powder coating, some race/street car construction and anything to put food on the table. I've been self employed for over 30 years as I find it almost impossible to work for any one else but me :D :D

MY OL TRUCK THANKS YOU, YA MADE IT FEEL YOUNG AGAIN!! :P

Right now I am a sheet metal mechanic on the blackhawks supporting the U.S. Army ouit here in good ol Iraq. I work nights and I love it. It's much cooler and dont have to put up with the bull that the day crew duz. After I get outta here I am planning on opening my own business building hot rods and auto body paint, also mechanic. And I also help run a horse ranch with my wife.

I want to add some good ol fashioned hope now. In the last week, I am selling like the old days... I was getting worried. Now, people are getting out bows/ guns getting ready for hunting season... it is just late this year. Don't know how this season will be, but people are going balls out right now. Seems like I worry about this every year & then it just kicks in... God always provides.

I am the service manager for the local John Deere dealership.Worked as a mechanic here for almost 10 years before making manager.

In construction all my life. My company provides Design Build General Contracting services.. Complete property developement for commercial and residential sector of our community.. New construction or Renovation.

Hotels, Housing Complexes, Strip Malls & Custom Built Homes.

Check out my face book. I have a few pics of a couple recently completed projects...


http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/ba...64?ref=profile

Just an ol' maintenance tech. Been doing it for 12 yrs now. Keeping CNC machines going despite the operators best intentions other-wise. Working at an auto parts store at night to keep the bills paid and the kids fed.

I manufacture tubular steel bar stools and restraunt furniture,start with 20 ft long tubes and cut,form,drill,weld,powder coat and upholster seats.Mostly work on my own, when it comes to work i'm always willing to compromise, i'm willing to let you see it my way.

I got layed off from Eaton corp. on Dec 19th, their transmission plant here in Shenendoah Iowa. I bought a gutter machine back in february, but that is even slow, I just talked to my old supervisor last friday and he says i may get called back in the next month or so thank god.

Well good luck to you man. I know times are tough but we will get thru them. Just got to keep the faith going.

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GLAD TO HEAR THERE IS A PLANT TO GO BACK TO, A LOT OF OTHERS ARE NOT AS FORTUNATE. THE GUTTER MACHINE IS THE BEST JOB SECURITY . GOOD LUCK IN YOUR BUSINESS!!

You know what? Instead of belly aching or crying, this gentleman got off his butt and searched a way to pay the bills with the gutter business. He's not looking for the government to bail him out.
Binderman, you are a great American. :!:
Dave

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Dave

I couldnt have said it better myself. These are the type of people that make me proud to be an American

Daytime Job
 

I'm a Production Supervisor. If you ever bought a cup of coffee and got one of those sleeves that protects your hand from the hot cup, or a Big Mac or a Dominos Pizza, you have used our product. We make the sleeves and the containers for McDonald's and Domino's. I'm hoping this is my last year of working. I'm old and need to retire. When I say retire I mean I can cruise every day and night in my Street Machine. Here's hoping.

hey now. im on of those "youth" sittin here at 20 years old. and i work nights as a parts guy. during the day befor work i usally am working on my dads truck im fixing whatever he broke.(hes really good at that). then on the weekdn i usally behind the wheel. Only getitn payed for the parts job. money is tight but ill do anyhting to keep our company running.

But yes i do agree with you kids my age our worthless i dont anyone that would work half as hard as i do they all got fired and our just sitin on unemployment.

Thanks for the kind words, however i have to say if i wasnt able to draw unemployment at the same time it would be very hard to pay the bills. There just isnt anything going on in my part of the country. I am lucky that i am able to draw since they consider me "temporarily layed off", I was supposed to be called back in april or may but, they just keep pushing it back. I am also lucky that the wife still has her job.

I didn't even think about so many guys getting laid off or plant closings when I started this thread. I hate to hear so many are having tuff times.
I can say that there are some good jobs in my area. Savannah River Site is hiring all craft over the next year for 2 different jobs. They have $1.8 billion of Stimlus money :shock:
They're hiring people and they have nothing to do. I don't mean waiting, I'm saying 130 people sitting in offices WITH NOHING TO DO today or tomorrow. Just drawing GOOD money from our wounderful government.
This link is the MOX facility. Shaw Areva is the GC.
http://www.moxproject.com/about/


We also have a nuclear power plant, Plant Vogtle, being built here. The Shaw Group nuclear division is the GC. This job has just started and still digging the 8 acre hole for the reactors, but will need all craft next year. http://www.contractorsunlimited.co.u...408-shaw.shtml
If hope this helps some of you or somebody you know!!

BTW if it helps any their is a Drag Strip called Carolina Dragway (House of Hook!) in the same town as the Savannah River Site!! That's where the race was at that Beetle Juice went 2 weekends ago.

There is hope for this country's future!!! :D
Dave

I work for the railroad Amtrak working on trains that break down in route or riding them to protect them to there next destination. 27 plus years.

Work at the worlds largest Potash fertilizer mine(shaft 3,200ft. down)here at Mosaic in Canada,owned by a USA company,Cargill . Shift work 12hrs days/nights. We ship to Northern States for their corn fields also sell to Europe,Asia,India,etc.

We have a DSM Chemical here. They have Potash there too. It hasn't been hit as hard by the recession as some of the other parts of the plant.