Great post.....the amount of "write offs" is a HUGE pay raise. I retired early and sold my Commercial HVAC shop after 20 years in business. I planned well and was prepared for the lack of income, what I miscalculated was the lack of write offs and actually having to pay for fuel, insurance, car registrations, travel, , etc., with personal, POST TAX dollars. It sucks!
I think about this often. I’m not going to go on a rant but the sacrifices that I’ve made to make sure my family is good are crazy. I’m not mad about it, but I do wish I had more time to do the things that I love and not the things that I have to.
See my post #54. They hire women all the time. I worked with a few.
600k year, really?
You have quite a few W2 employees making 600k+ a year ? What are they doing, and are you hiring?
My wife bought me a simple gift to remind me, and I still need to be reminded all day every day.
One upside to that route is you can stay local 12 and continue to build your pension as local 12 covers inspection & testing in SoCal, but that doesn't really solve your free time or having to commute issue.
It really has. I have a class A, drive a dump truck and move equipment, I'm the back up heavy equipment operator, and right now I am acting heavy equipment operator. When I'm not driving or operating I have my nail bags on and I'm setting forms. All for 36 an hour.
Has to be a sales guy who takes home a base W2. No one in a work van is pulling that lol.
I’m willing to leave the union to solve those issues. Been thinkin about gettin the cwi and working for a company a few years to learn the ropes then go off on my own. I own a business also so I’m not a stranger to bookkeeping and such.
OnlyFans?You have quite a few W2 employees making 600k+ a year ? What are they doing, and are you hiring?
That’s what I was thinking.
lol. If it were that easy we’d charge $450Replacing AC capacitors for $350 a pop.
Yup. The guys making the big money are putting in all the hours. I’ve got guys grinding 7 days a week. Taking every call they can pick up any shift that someone doesn’t want to work. Etc etc.
and was close last year as well. I thought we did good plumbing and hvac.
Lol. What did they do to you?
Yes they are. One of my executives is female. Many of my top managers are female. I have a female installer, we are onboarding a female technician . 2 females sales (1 is top woman in the country)
There are many days I look out my window and see people working on roofs and wish I was back in the field.
OnlyWeldersOnlyFans?
There’s some female welders that seem to do ok with the Instagram and tik tok thing. They get a bunch of cool sponsors too. I may give welding In my speedo a go here pretty soon.
I did those long hours in my 20's doing supermarket refrigeration. It kicked my ass!!! By the time I was 30 there was no way i would work those hours. I would have to take full days off to sleep and recover
Ahhh man... the days at Source! That is a single man's honey hole right there. I worked with a guy that got into Source young and worked his way up in the field to where they were flying him around the country to emergency troubleshoot and repair racks and controls. By the time he was in his 30's he was set pretty well but was done with the crazy hours.
It was a meat grinder. A few people I still know that work there have done well as long as they made it to management
Oh dang! I'll need to let Bre know about that.
Cool story
Selling customers shit they don’t needReplacing AC capacitors for $350 a pop.
They should offer trade classes in high school and tell teachers to keep their fucking mouths shut on pushing college and saying anything less you'll never be anything. The education system is a big reason why the work force is the way it is. From the start students are told no college you're nothing and that's what these young adults have become because they believed that bullshit.
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