We had a thread about what we hated about our jobs. So how about the other side of the coin?
I really like it when I ask a customer how a job went, and he says everything fit well. That’s always a relief.
I also like it when I come up with a creative solution to a problem, or a better way to frame something. A lot of customers don’t really appreciate that effort. But enough of them do that I really enjoy it when they say: “Do you know how much time that’s gonna save us?”
I also really like it when I get some positive feedback. (Which is very rare) A few weeks ago I sent out a really unusual job with $55,000 worth of trusses on it. I quoted it, sold it, and designed the trusses for it. Everything went together great.
But the best part was that the GC knew my Dad. He told Dad that he was really impressed with how well I had handled everything and how everything had fit perfectly. He figured the job was ahead of schedule at least partly because of me.
That one was a moment to remember…
You’re still young. Being a true loser takes years of inaptitude. [Robin Williams]
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i like having productive days. you know the ones, when everything on the list goes smoothly, and you really seem to accomplish alot. by far my favorite part of the job, however, is when i get to do service work. i volunteer with habitat, but i also lead youth groups from my church on service projects to west virginia and rural south carolina. i don't get paid for any of it, and it can be a bit of a headache sometimes coordinating everything, but there is no better feeling in the world than the friday at the end of the week, when u can look at all that the kids have accomplsihed (with your help). participating in a service project in high school is actually how i got interested in the trades, and i wouldn't trade them for the world.
Nice thread idea Boss. By far the greatest part of what I do is getting posative feedback from clients. Being rather new to the professional design world (2 years out of college), a small compliment and a thank-you from a client goes a long way with me.
On the technical level, I like problem solving geometry. I especially like figuring out very difficult roofs. My favorite part of the design process is when I get a couple of floor plans that my boss figured out in a meeting with clients, then I get to figure out and draw the elevations and roof. I go into "the zone"
I also really like computer modeling, and since my boss has no idea how to do it, I get to look like a hero to him when I complete a rendering.
Good thread Boss.
I'm not in the construction / home building biz so my experiences are probably somewhat different than most here. As a freelance creative, I love the freedom my job provides me. My work spans from broadcast TV, to graphic design, public relations , and currently product design of a new industrial hand held computer. Never the same thing twice.
I love the personal freedom that comes from being self employed. If one of the kids is sick and my wife needs a hand, I help her out and work late at night. I get to take off most of December and spend the time getting into the holiday traditions.
Working from home I've seen my kids grow up much more closely than other dads.
Working from home I get to see my wife much more closely than others, if you know what I mean.
I like having the ability to pick and choose clients - to some extent. I have on rare occasion walked away from clients I felt were unethical, something that would be hard to do in a staff position.
Being self employed provides me expanded freedom to renovate my old house, when the money is there.
Best of all, being self employed allows me an opportunity to post here in the Tavern without a boss looking over my shoulder. I would have never been able to argue endlessly with Sancho were I in a real job. :)
Best part of the job is being self-employed. Took a pretty steep pay cut to do it but I couldn't go back.
Worst part of the job is also being self-employed. When things aren't going right, I get to rely on me, myself and I. ;-)
"Let's get crack-a-lackin" --- Adam Carolla
My selfemployment is definately a plus but my favorite 2 things are creative solutions and a finished product that everybody goes nuts over.
ANDYSZ2I MAY DISAGREE WITH WHAT YOUR SAYING BUT I WILL DEFEND TO THE DEATH YOUR RIGHT TO SAY IT.
Remodeler/Punchout
Right now, here's the complete list:
Having a bad day their Capn?
The best part of my job is right now, I'm vacationing, get to do it whenever I want, and lately I want to a lot!
Doug
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Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Having a bad day their Capn?
Exceptionally. Probably a new low over the last 700-1000 or so.Occupational hazard of my occupation not being around (sorry Bubba)
"Probably a new low over the last 700-1000 or so."
You know, I've told you a million times not to exaggerate.
You know, I've told you a million times not to exaggerate.
And I never, ever, use an infinitive in a generalization . . .
No, this was a day in the 2-3 year "flood" sort of way of bad. Been at least that long since the last one quite so sideways. Worse still, for not having any one cause, just a couple million gnat bites adding up after a while.Occupational hazard of my occupation not being around (sorry Bubba)
Freedom.
One of the main reasons I'm hesitant to hire employees again. Tuesday, my Dad called at 8:15am, and asked if I had time for a quick 18 holes. I hadn't talked to him in a while, so I changed out of my work clothes, and hit the links.
I'll make up for Tuesday by working Sunday. Not possible when you have 2 or 3 guys depending on your supervision.
Doncha wish your girlfriend was hot like me?
I work with one of the best roofers/metal artisans in the state I believe. I work FOR one of my best friends.
Grant hired me without knowing a damm thing about me, other than I CAN do almost anything I set my mind to. We have been confidants, friends and professionals all at the same time. I respect his ethics like no other.
Dale and I had a real clash of Titans when I started two some yrs ago, now, we are best of buds, and I'd rather take a day off than work without him.
Being the old fart on the roof is kinda neat, the young guys look out for me, and don't ask me to be superman...but, I can still hold my own most of the time, cuz I have wisdom from age, not false security.
I love the copper, I love the look on a customers face when we really rock out a tuff bent, soldered, and leakproof roof..and I have to say, the paycheck is pretty damm good, Grant ain't no penny pincher...I drive an average of 70 miles to and from a job, he makes it worth while.
Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
Damm, I miss that stuff
Way cool bro, way cool.
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Thanks. I'd be working w/you in aheart beat...really. I like your style and professionalism.
I miss framing some times, talk about a large process at the end of the day, but, I am getting up there, both age wise and roof wise..I'll do the little nasty crap like fudging the crown to make 2 profiles meet seamlessly ( as seen on TV, or not from my house)..but really, I miss that scenery at the end of the walls went up after the mornings frosty bare deck.
I could never tell anyone, how much I love this job...words don't cut it.
And when some dikwad wants to F/with Gman, WE are there..family type stuff. He knows his "chillin" are out there, doing the best, and we call him DAD behind his back, cuz we are his proteges..sumbitch is ony 2 yrs older than I...LOLLOLOLOL.
Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
Damm, I miss that stuff
I really love problem solving for one.I like it when the customers tell me hopw well the design fits their family and lifestyle, too.What really gets me off is compliments from my peers. Recently, the site sales guy from one of the yards I use had this to say - "I've been going out and visiting jobs for over 25 years now, I've seen and sold to some of the best, and I have to tell you that you rank in the top ten or twenty when it comes to paying attention to the details to get it to come out right!"
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Ooops, I forgot one - I likek depositing the checks too
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I likek depositing the checks too
That's the part that makes it all possible.
Doncha wish your girlfriend was hot like me?
Checks? You get paid? ;-) That is one downside to being self employed, I make less than about a fifth of what I made when I worked for a regional commission and I have no benefits. Thank goodness my wife has a good job with a regular paycheck!
The nookie.
Pardon my fat fingers.
You doin' side work with Sphere again? ; ^ )
Mike
Trust in God, but row away from the rocks.
Edited 4/28/2006 7:55 pm by ruffmike
He don't do it for the nookie. I do it all for the nookie.
Pardon my fat fingers.
You mean you get bank Nookie? Or the paycheck at home nookie?
Pouting here..I ain't got either.
define Nookie..I think I forget.
Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
Damm, I miss that stuff
I like it when everything goes as planned.
I like working with other professional tradesmen who know their sh*t.
I like learning things from other tradesmen.
I like working with people who are not close minded and are willing to see someone else's point of view.
I like working for a company who sees me as an asset, pays well, and uses my skill productively.
I like being able to take a day if I really need it.
I am sure I will think of more.
If it wasn’t for the Bank Payments,
Interest, Taxes, Wages, and Fuel Costs,
I wouldn’t have to charge you!!
Great topic Boss.
Other than the things I mentioned in the other thread, there's not much I don't like about my job.
I love the change of scenery. Moving from one job to another every few weeks or so. And I love the closure (don't know what else to call it) that comes with final wrap-up on a frame. You get to leave behind the problems or stress or whatever that came with that job and move on to a fresh clean slate. Sometimes I'm sad to leave a job though. Like the addition we wrapped up last night. It was just fun to be there.
Another cool thing about framing is the tangible results that come with a good day's work. You can literally see your production right there in front of you when you leave for the night. It's very satisfying.
I just love being a carpenter. I love to sweat, bleed, and shiver all the while still having to use both your head and your back to make a living. I think some people see framing as grunt work, but I don't see it that way at all. Maybe I'm kidding myself but I really believe you've got to be fairly intelligent to really be good at framing. I think framing is a fantastic balance of both brains and braun. But hey... I'm a romantic.
I love wearing jeans or work pants to work every day. I love wearing company t-shirts from tool manufacturers, lumberyards, and my own business. I love that I can justify a big ole honkin' pick up truck. I love driving the forklift and makeing unmanagable tasks completely managable. I love that, for better or worse, I'm out there in the weather day in and day out. I'm the first one I know with a suntan every spring and I'm always the first one to know when there's a snowstorm coming. It turns you into a weather geek to some extent. I love wearing a tool belt, pounding nails, and cutting wood. I love hot coffee on cold mornings while walking on new subfloors. I love the smell of sawdust. I love taking a shower at night and watching the dirt go down the drain. I love seeing the sunrise and the sunset. I love handing the boys fat checks after big weeks. I love that the waffled steel face of my hammer is worn smooth enough to set windows with. I love a handful of 16's, a fat hammer, and soft pine. I love rafters that fit like the miters on window casing. And I love that I can do with a skil saw what some would struggle to do with a slider.
Yeah, I drank the Kool-Aid bro. LOL, but hey it keeps me happy. And that's just the physical part of the job. Let me tell you what I love about owning my own business............
All right, another time. That's enough of my rambling for one night!
Enjoy it Brian. It is all you said and then some.
Take care of the body, the mind will follow..ok, that was cheep AA shid, but YOU know. You are an artist.
Do think about the long term family type deal..my man, we can't keep it up forever, it is a tuff gig.
If I had good advice at 30 sumptin, I would not be here in this fashion...I coulda been anything, invested in anything, aand maybe not a lick more happy, but rich with money.
I never had that advice, I just did what came naturally...paying for it now? You bet.
Give yer self a little cushion factor or rainy day fund...you wont be sorry.
Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
Damm, I miss that stuff
Diesel, Man!!! you said it all. I walk out the door, look up and the thank the big man upstairs for the talent he has bestowed on me to enjoy. About 8 years ago I explanded into doing cabinet and millwork. I purchased a 2500 sq ft building and loaded it with financed tools(own em now). The place is my home. I put a loft in with full bath, kitchen, TV room (so I can watch the Phils)Ha Ha. My buddies will stop over after work on fridays. We'll shoot the sh&T and bust on each other (they dont bust on me too much, I think its becouse I feed them!!) I love this interaction. I love my wife Too
Live a blessed life, Lou
That was good. Really good.
When you treat your job as a passion, which I can see that you do. All the other things in life sure become a whole lot easier.
Keep swinging, and benden them nails
I like the freedom of being self employed so I can do things I could never do when I worked for others (like just up and go to MS when I wanted to, or take time off to do my art work, have breakfast with my dad). I like it when the customer is happy with what I've done. I like it at the end of the day when I can look at something I've built or painted or whatever--much more satisfying than my old job where at the end of the day I'd produced a plan that would gather dust on someone's shelf, or I'd moved a pile of useless paperwork from my in box to my out box. I like using my brain and using my body--I think it keeps me young and relatively healthy. I like figuring out how to do things.
I love working outside, feeling the sun on my skin or the smell of a crisp morning. One of my favorite sights is when someone cutting on the roof shoots sawdust out of his saw and the sun catches it just right. It's too bad everyone in the trades can't romanticize their profession as much as we do.
Some guys who work in an office all day will talk about how much they love the outdoors. Well, why don't you work in it everyday too? I get to be outside all-day everyday and get paid for it.
I feel the best about my job when I know that everything on a new house frame has gone smoothly because of my efforts. When the guys are happy and the boss makes money and the builder is satisfied with his product I know I've done my job. It makes me feel like a professional and that, coupled with some sweet lovin', is all I really want.
I do what I want, when I want, for who I want, HOW I want.
Being self employed is a blessing.
Grunge on. http://grungefm.com
good Q ... great timing.
I just started a new project. I decided to put a hold on a not-so-productive K&B shop and find work elsewhere ... also have a big project of my own going at the same time ...
I'm riding a high after riding the middle for a while ...
I love the freedom ... as everyone else has said. I like the fact I can always go and sell myself to someone new. I know full well I'll never be outta work for more than a day or so.
I love solving problems .. I have a favorite saying ... which I regret for a second now and then ... "ya can't scare me" ... just had to call in my favorite PE for a minor "issue" on the current job. He did the math and I did the work ... problem solved .. and I still ain't scared!
I remember ... asking my dad ... who had what I thot was the hardest job ever ... Why? ... he said ... because he got to do something different everyday ... solve problems all the time ... I thot he was nuts ... now I know.
I also like just plain being a tough guy. I like going home bloody sometimes. I like being able to get outta bed with aches and pains ... knowing they'll pass by the weekend ... hopefully ... a full grown man doing a full grown man's work. Busted knuckles, scrapes and bruises ... walk it off ... just walk it off.
I love working alone ... and having the customer that was "concerned" that I didn't have help ... show up and be amazed at the amount of work I got done. Another favorite phrase ... "I have the strength of 10 men ... 10 very small, sickly men ... but 10 men all the same..."
I really like knowing that I am one of the best trim carps going. I've worked hard on my skills, and love it when it all comes together. I also like the fact that I can trim with the best of them ... but the very next day I'll be covered in dust as I demo the next project. I don't think I'd be half as happy if I didn't have my hand in all aspects of remodeling ... the guts and the glory.
I like the fact I do have a ton of knowledge ... and I can apply it. I learn everyday ... I'm forced to. Last Tues I brainstormed with my PE on a kitchen job ... then drove an hour on a beautiful day to visit my plumber on a different job ... and ended up shoveling gravel out of his way for an hour because his machine wouldn't fit and the drain lines had to be hand dug.
Then ... stopped by and helped a buddy sell a job that I'll hopefully get to have a hand in.
I also love the fact I get to sell myself ... constantly. I love sales .... I love hands on work. I have to rely on both ... and get to do both .... and life is good. I love the cold hard fact that I make what I bring in. I can always make more. It's completely up to me. See ... there's more of the "full grown man" stuff" ...
and ya know what I hate ... sheathing a roof. It's heavy stuff ... hard to lift way up there ... and when ya do ... it's slippy. The ya gotta bend over and hurt yer back nailing it off ... so that pretty much goes against everything I just said ... but I still hate sheathing a roof! I'm a big sissy!
Jeff
Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
I know what you mean by the toughness factor of the job. I'm not macho by any means, although I will (and have) defend myself. But I don't have to participate in any of these proofs of masculinity. I get to prove myself every day. I know inside that I'm the toughest out there. I've met quite a few of my equals in construction.
I'm framing a house alone right now at 50 years old. Last night my elbow was swelled up and my hands are all cut up from my first steel framing experience. I took a few Tylenols last night and this morning I'm feeling good. Monday I'll be fine. I'm always ready by Monday except for the Achilles heel of carpenters-- the back.
I'm sheathing the roof alone this week. That, I'm not looking forward to.
Ahh feats of strength. I love working with the young guys. I can out power them anytime. My dad never told me I needed help or anything was too much for me. And it's paid off. I prefer to just be alone when I'm doing most things. Reliance on others gets on my nerves. Especially these young guys.
We were hand trucking concrete a couple of weeks ago. Myself and the bosses future son in law were the only two that could lift the wheel barrows. He's early 20 something, former football star big time jock all that blah, blah, blah. I finished four trips ahead of him when it was done. And took more concrete each load.
Every load he would have to stretch and flex and grab his ankles like he was going for a medal. I couldn't get it through his head that it was all mental. You just pick it up push it to the end and dump. The more you get dumped the closer you are to the end. You get closer to the finish with every load. Piece of cake.
I even helped float and finish the thing the rest of the day. He had to go home. Too much on him.
Pardon my fat fingers.
I couldn't get it through his head that it was all mental. You just pick it up push it to the end and dump. The more you get dumped the closer you are to the end. You get closer to the finish with every load. Piece of cake.
thats exactly it
this jobs suck donkey but if we get it done then its done and dont have to think about it anymoreDue to recent budget cuts the light at the end of the tunnel will be turned off until further notice.
Exactly.
Pardon my fat fingers.
Like in "Cool Hand Luke" where he convinces the guys on the "road crew" to work real hard and then they finish early and the walkin' boss can't find more work for them to do, so they get to just lounge around and enjoy the great outdoors!
Like in "Cool Hand Luke" where he convinces the guys on the "road crew" to work real hard and then they finish early and the walkin' boss can't find more work for them to do, so they get to just lounge around and enjoy the great outdoors!
pretty much but in an air conditioned bar with me buying if there was enough money on the job they get paid for eight
Due to recent budget cuts the light at the end of the tunnel will be turned off until further notice.
I'll add some more.
I guess it's the feeling that I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing. If I sell a job that I'm real excited about, I think about it non stop, and wake up before the alarm every morning.
I started working as a carpenter the day after I graduated high-school, and it's been my full time job ever since. I grew up on construction sites, and riding around in pick-up trucks with ladder racks. If it's possible to inherit a trade I did. Most carpentry skills come naturally to me.
I get tired of the BS sometimes, but I've never considered being anything else.
Doncha wish your girlfriend was hot like me?
BossHog, I like the fact that I can take something completly raw and turn it into a piece of furniture. I really enjoy when I show my dad some of my work. I have 3 brothers=2 doctors, 1 tree surgeon,and me the cabinetmaker. He is a modest man but I see the pride he has in all of us. He's done his job well. I hope someday I can be half the man he is. love ya pops
LMC
One of my favorite things:
#1
Gaining the respect of one of the outher 60+ union carpenters that I work with. I can smoke them all because I've got the mechanicle mind.
#2
A responce from one of the individuals that make this the best freeken' place to spend time on! (You know who you are).
#3
Useing spell ckeck and getting no corrections!
TRIGGER
#4
Turning my piers onto this site, and they acctuially come here. BTW I would like to know where I can find the picture of the lady with a box duct tapped to the roof of her car.
TRIGGER
Go to Google imagesType "Lady with a box" in the search linehit the enter keyrefine your search from there
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Boss,
I like people who think positively. Thanks.
The best things about my job (and belive me they are the only things that keep me doing it) are:
Having the oportunity to put my all into a project and have it turn out as the customer wanted.
Getting to do some creative problem solving. I like challenges within reason.
Learning from people who are farther along than I and yet have respect for me
teaching others stuff I know
Learning something from the new guy is always fun
having a crew to work with and have fun. (when it happens)
having a day when I'm in the zone so to speak
Thanks for making me realize how many good things there are. hard to remember over all the crap sometimes
Lunch!!!
"What do you like best about your job?" ................... the fact that I have one though it's not what I want to be doing. Got married three years ago and moved halfway across the country. It was tough finding any work at all. Then two hips and a knee replacement. I've had to hang up my hammer and paintbrush for the time being but I hope to get my contractor's license later this year and get back to it next year. A little adversity makes you grateful for what you do have and thankfully my better half has a good steady job.
I love starting with a piece of ground and a set of plans, or even just a concept and some time later looking at a completed home in my rear view mirror at the end of the last day of the punch list. I love satisfied customers. I love a customer with a some imagination and the money to facilitate the build of a cool house. I love building a house of real value - a quality product slightly ahead of the the $s spent. As Brian said, I love the tangible results. I love providing people with one of the bare essentials in life - shelter. I love the fact that I know that as a superintendent I'm the one who is responsible for the whole project, the quality, the budget, the details, the one and only person on-site with the big picture of the project, that facilitator, the one who greases the wheels of progress on the project. I love that if a spec house doesn't sell, it's not skin off my a$$, except maybe a little closing bonus. I love getting progress/completion bonuses. I love having a boss that gives me free reign, but who tells me good job at raise time. I love it when the plumber starts rough-in the day after the framer does his last punch item. I love passing inspections. I love getting another CO. I love walking around the job with a white hard-hat, a clean shirt, and a clip-board. I love not being cooped up in an office 8:00 to 5:00 but still having an office I can go do some paperwork in on a rainy day. I love having great suppliers who know that I don't cry wolf, but will rush a delivery on the instances when I do need it now. I love knowing I'm the man on the job with the answers, not that I have them all, but I pride myself in getting any answer for a sub, customer, etc, on an ASAP basis. I love solving the inevitable problems that come up, but I love even more preventing them. I love telling subs they did a good job, even on a small detail. I love getting subs paid on an ASAP basis. I love doing a little punch work, but at the same time knowing that I will never be personally responsible for getting 40 sheets of plywood up to the 2nd floor deck. And in the end, I love the fact that one day, when I'm looking at the grass from the roots side, there will be a lot of homes left with my epitaph on them.
I no longer like my job. A couple of years ago they implemented efficiency framework that makes everything a regular, measurable task-based activity. They made zero accommodation of the unexpected, like vendor hardware that was DOA, fiber optic cable that was permanently dark, vendor no-shows, etc., etc., etc.
But, I feel this was an unstated long-term plan to make themselves more appealing for a buyout, which was announced earlier this year (SBC buys BellSouth). It allowed BellSouth to surplus to a point beyond when it would impact infratsructure deployment completion, impacted customer service, and everything else you can imagine.
I now work according to the efficiency numbers, and not beyond like I can easily do. I am blasted, equally, if I don't make the numbers or make three times the numbers. Its like being damned every way. As an office technician of 28-years said to me last week, "This isn't BellSouth. I like my job up until 18-months ago. Now I hate it an I'm quitting."
We can thank UPS for that fine asinine 'solution'.
What great thread. Thanks Boss.
Just about everything has been touched on here for me and the the way I feel about what I do. Time was when I bemoaned the fact that I chose to be a carpenter and plasterer. I somehow looked on it as beneath me never seeing the weight of the giant chip on my shoulder I was carrying. I had that "grass is greener" syndrome. Today, I must admit that I am ashamed that I ever felt that way. I love being a carpenter, and I love being referrd to by others as a craftsman, an artisan, and a skilled tradesman,... because that's what I am.
I love the smell of wood and being able to walk into a woodshop blindfloded and tell you what woods are being worked with. I love 'reading' wood and knowing how it was sawn and how best to mill it. I love having well over 100 clamps in my little shop, some of them over 100 years old, and having to use every one of them. I love watching a curl of wood spring out of the mouth of my handplane and then holding it up to a newspaper and showing the others how they can read print right through it, or holding it up to sunlight and seeing the miracle of pattern and structure.
The early mornings are the best, when no one is talking but they are easing their minds and bodies into the freshness and possibilities of a new day. The soul is tight at this point and with the little buzz from the coffee and the motion of the work itself, comes the lubrication and loosening of the body and the lightness of being right there in that moment, knowing that you are an able individual.
I love how this line of work allows one to quietly be tough, and without any kind of boasting, have guts.
I love the tangibility of my work at the end of a day.
Plastering is nothing more than the big kid in me playing in the mud. To take this composition of wet earth and reshape it to one's liking and use to last for generations is indeed divine. Some say that they were born of water, or that the stork brought them. I think that I was pulled up from the clay and it will always be 'twixt my toes and under my nails.
I love not being stuck. Even if I hate hate hate what I'm doing at the moment, I know that this job will come to an end, and that another day will dawn. The wife has said to me for years "This too shall pass dear, now pass the butter." Imagine being in a job you hated and couldn't leave or do anything to change it! Where's the purple koolaid?
I love driving by and pointing and saying "See that?...I did that and left a penny up there 10 years ago next to my name"
I'm proud to be a tradesman. I feel great about being able to stand with the rest of the people in this thread and be counted.
Somebody ought to put pictures and faces with the posts and do a book. I'd buy it.
The thing I like best about my job is: rain days.
Other days off are high on my list too, but rain days makes me happiest.
blue
LOL, c'mon Blue.... it ain't all that bad is it? Am I looking into the future here? Man, I hope not. View Image
Who doesn't like a good rain day? Go back home curl up on the couch for a few hours. Have a big bowl of soup. Watch an old movie. Rain days are the best.
Doo Dah, Doo Dah.
Hey, don't get me wrong G-man. Sure I like a good rain day once in awhile. But I don't make much money watching Sportscenter either. View Image
Haven't been doing this long. Started right out of college (2 years ago this month). I work for a company that's teaching me frame to finish and I have to agree with most of what's been said.My wife doesn't always like my chosen profession but is happy as long as I love what I'm doing. I hope I continue to love it as much as some of you guys do.Edit: Lurking and learning here is high on my list.
Edited 4/30/2006 8:30 pm ET by TBone
You're going to turn around and 20 years will have slipped by believe me. You keep on, and learn the right way. No shortcuts.
I hear ya. But it's a nice treat.
Doo Dah, Doo Dah.
U shrink when ya get wet or what?
Jeff Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
Back when I had an office job, I lived about three blocks from work and often walked to work--even when it rained. Coworkers would say, "You walked to work today?! But it's raining!" And I'd say, "Yeah, and I didn't even melt!"
One thing I hated when I did framing was the boss having us work in the rain until we were soaked to the skin, then tell us it was too rainy and then have us come in and do miscellaneous BS to kill the rest of the day. It was always fun working on wet jobsites, especially if I was wet because at least one of the saws had a bare spot on the power cord. On one job, every time I stood on the wet floor and touched the I-beam in the basement, I got a shock (was measuring for studs).
Every so often on I get to see a video on Fox News showing one of the systems that I helped design turn some bad guys into a smokin' hole in the ground. Other times its knowing some of our guys made it back safely because of something I designed.