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    3/06/2021 7:33 AM  #1

    red351
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    So it's spring

    Because we seen our first Robin, which almost makes this thread mustang related...

     

    3/06/2021 7:42 AM  #2

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    Re: So it's spring

    Yep, supposed to warm up big time this week here.  Hopefully we don't snap back into cold temps and snow.  Anything is possible in March here in DE.  We start baseball next week, so I'm hoping it stays good weather. 

     

    3/06/2021 10:23 AM  #3

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    Re: So it's spring

    Hope that Robin knows what he's doing but the rule of thumb around here is, don't put the snow shovel away until after Easter.

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    3/06/2021 11:48 AM  #4

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    Re: So it's spring

    TKOPerformance wrote:

    Yep, supposed to warm up big time this week here.  Hopefully we don't snap back into cold temps and snow.  Anything is possible in March here in DE.  We start baseball next week, so I'm hoping it stays good weather. 

    I had to work in DE some yrs. ago about this time on a construction job. Talk about bone chilling cold . It took all 3 day that I was allowed home off, to warm back up ..before I had to traveled back down... Never again.  That's when I knew it's time for retirement soon...

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    3/06/2021 1:12 PM  #5

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    Yeah, I've been in construction my whole life.  Right now we're wishing it was July.  Come July we'll be wishing it was March   And always seem to be outside projects in the winter and summer, but inside during spring and fall.  I'll try my best to keep my kids out of this business.  Of course that's what my Dad did with me and we see how well that worked out...

     

    3/07/2021 6:05 PM  #6

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    Re: So it's spring

    TKOPerformance wrote:

      I'll try my best to keep my kids out of this business.  Of course that's what my Dad did with me ..

    My "youngster" sez......young guys that have ACTUAL hands on work/labor experience is a HUGE asset in todays job market.
    Most kids now days.......all they know is I pad  and cell phone.............NOT actual do something with-your-hands work! 
    Pitiful.... (welders (uuuggghh) and 'lectricians' can almost write their own ticket!)
    6sal6 

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    3/07/2021 7:41 PM  #7

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    Re: So it's spring

    Mike my son in law went to plumber school that military paid for. He worked non-union jobs while in school. When he got his journey papers the union begged him to join. They doubled his pay (non-union don't pay well) and gave him 5 years experience so he  would get better health care and vacation time. Yea they need people that can work.

    My story: 5 years ago I took a job as supervisor over technicians, I took this because I did the job before and my present job was moved over an hour away. Shortly after taking the job, due to being way understaffed, we hired 5 new techs. I was kinda told it would be nice if I hired this guy with an engineering degree, the only experience he had was manger of Chick-fillet. His dad was higher up in the company. He was on a job with a slightly more experienced tech and they needed my assistance. Now mind we buy all their tools and all they have to do is give me a receipt. I asked him for a 7/16 nut driver and he said "all I have is metric, I didn't know there was a difference". The other guy gave me the tool. Shortly later I asked, " do you have a phillips screw driver, or is it metric too". He just stared at me. Later he put in for a field engineer job and  I gave him a better recommendation than I would give myself. 

    I was lucky, I had a dad that taught me how to do things. I had a few friends that did the same and we shared the same interest. I worked on some friends cars that told me their dad wouldn't give them the time of day. Teach your kids what ever you can, spend time with them and let them decide what to do. My girls didn't want cars but I was a girl scout leader for 4 years. 

    I love you dad!!!

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    3/08/2021 6:37 AM  #8

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    It was bound to happen.  In my generation too many guys bought into the BS that America was going to be the tech center of the world and that your path to fortune lay in going to school for computers.  Then all those jobs got outsourced to India and China and those people ended up with deep student debt and jobs making $35k/year, whereas a union plumber as an apprentice makes $35/hr, which is over twice that, and they have no student loan debt.  Also they have a great health plan and a pension.  My cousin started off in corrections, became a cop, and then quit and is now studying for his masters certification for the plumbers union. 

    I just grew up working with my hands and working on stuff.  I always wanted to know how everything worked, and still do.  I grew up in a construction family and went to college to study business, knowing that one day I would take overt the business.  The business didn't last long enough for that, but I had my education and a decade's worth of hands on experience when I graduated.  I could always find a decent job, but they never seemed to last since the bean counters took over US business and people became inventory.  I had the skills to start my own business and that's what I did almost 16 years ago.  I make a good living and most days I love what I do.  There's an honesty and a feeling of accomplishment to working in the trades.  Maybe one day my sons will follow me into this business, but if not they'll know how to fix their own cars and remodel their own houses regardless. 

     

    3/08/2021 1:03 PM  #9

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    Between my Dad ...Hot Rod Magazine....watching & helping other car guys I learned A LOT about cars.
    My Dad begged me to NOT be a grease-monkey mechanic with dirty 'fanger-nails' and grease up to my elbows.
    Auto mechanics has come a LOOONG way from then and now!
    My youngster learned a lot about sheen'ree working as a fire fighter...helping me with car stuff...and of course You Tube.
    Once they get "the-general-idea" how stuff works it kinda grows exponentially.
    All of which has paid off really well for him in his sales job.
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    3/08/2021 7:10 PM  #10

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    Re: So it's spring

    My real short story is, I can read backwards as fast as forwards, & upside down if was needed. Not a real skill, but if in the printing yes. School push it that way. I hated it and was bored. It's no longer needed, but I still need Bonnie to spell words for me.  So living on a distant family farm in the 60's you learn the basics. The real IMPORTANT STUFF. I can fix anything, if not, we don't need it. Bonnie & I  have 2 girls, one was top of her class and the Air Force paid for  her collage. She and her husband built there haus and built there own kitchen cabinets and more. The young one in Nevada fixes there cars, pluming, electrical  and etc.. I'm so proud of them.

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    3/08/2021 8:04 PM  #11

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    Re: So it's spring

    I got a boy that can weld circles around me, especially tig. He does have a problem with the kiss principle, wonder who he inherited that from.

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    3/09/2021 6:48 AM  #12

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    Re: So it's spring

    red351 wrote:

    My real short story is, I can read backwards as fast as forwards, & upside down if was needed. Not a real skill, but if in the printing yes. School push it that way. I hated it and was bored. It's no longer needed, but I still need Bonnie to spell words for me.  So living on a distant family farm in the 60's you learn the basics. The real IMPORTANT STUFF. I can fix anything, if not, we don't need it. Bonnie & I  have 2 girls, one was top of her class and the Air Force paid for  her collage. She and her husband built there haus and built there own kitchen cabinets and more. The young one in Nevada fixes there cars, pluming, electrical  and etc.. I'm so proud of them.

    Reading upside down is important for some professions.  Teachers in particular.  No personal experience but someone I know pretty well told me

     

    3/09/2021 8:59 AM  #13

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    Lawyers are good at reading upside down. Mine was with me at an investigation. When we left he said "you won't have a problem" he wrote good notes about you.

     

     

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