garrisonm1
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My lifestyle overcomes my salary, due to my wife losing her job to the economy.
..times are tough and heading towards tougher. ..we have witnessed in construction since before I was involved
I understand that there may be jobs, but I think we all realize this is not our standard downturn. Many more people are out of work than I have seen before. I am also hearing of the different companies that are teetering on bankruptsy, that is going to have a further ripple effect when those people are out of work for a month or so.
I am curious what the OP must be thinking, if he is still lurking this thread???
I was in the trade about 7 or 8 years, running jobs etc, the economy tanked and I took a job mowing lawns instead of collecting. There is often work if people are willing work hard at jobs that they might not enjoy.
Pierre you are the op. Do you wonder what you are thinking??
There is often work if people are willing work hard at jobs that they might not enjoy.
It makes sense people will cross train or abandon livelihoods when necessity becomes the mother of invention. But, necessity is subjective, especially for industry leaders that re-make the rules, or any observer allowed to watch how the rules get twisted.
If we could only figure that mayan calander thing out now.
The key is to not say your doing sidework when you make a post about it : )
People doing these rinky dink jobs are not stealing a contractors bread and butter. For the most part these people are unwilling or unable to pay the price tag associated with that so they'll find someone who will do it for less. Bottom line is they aren't going to look in the yellow pages and call a contractor. I think that posts about sidework should be closed. The posters need to be sharp enough to understand that this site is supposed to be for those doing legitament work in the trade and post accordingly.
..I think we all realize this is not our standard downturn. Many more people are out of work ..companies teetering on bankruptsy
I will judge them poorly for taking on work they do not have the skills to perform adequately. Sadly, there are bound to be a few people who do not know enough to know they are outside their area of adequateness. But that applies to just about anyone at one time or another.
I think we also need to be careful about the definition of sidework. All "side work" is not unethical, improper, uninsured, or illegal.
im doing sidework. I guess you could call it that. A contractor we do work for bought some land in another county and built a house he plans on moving into. The homeowner can pull all permits in this county so he asked me to work my weekends when needed to wire his house for him. He has also used me to help do other things outside of the electrical. I will be starting my trim-out soon.
That's the only sidework i have done if you can call it sidework.