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[tattoobob]

Rich, I would so love to do that, seeing I just set up my truck camper with a new truck. I am to honest to do that and just screw the other guys I work with. I think I will ask for a raise tomorrow for turning the van in

[Karl F]

Bob, when and if you try the business thing again, don't do it as a one man show...Young guy I know, Electrician, starts his own business a year and half ago, after being a foreman for a big company for several years (union).. well, he def. does not want the work 80, get paid for 40 routine, so he goes out, lines up a chit load of union work, makes his co. a union shop, hires 3 guys he knows, bills them out at a hundred + per hour, and works about 3 days a week himself, so's he can fish ... I think he's up to 4, maybe 5 guys now.. work keeps piling in.. he ain't payin' them a hundred per hour, that's for sure... he only hires guys he knows.. most of them like to fish, so, they are agreeable to working 4- 10 hour days, or the occasional 3-13 hour day, weeks.. so works well for all.. a good formula, and better than the one man show. He primarily just lines up the jobs, estimates, billing, and collecting and such.

Good luck in your endeavors.

[tattoobob]

Great advice Karl, but it is not for me I like to go home and leave work at work I don't even like to talk about work, when my wife asks me how my day was I say good thats it.

I went to the insurance co. yesterday to get the form to register my truck and she gave me a print out of my driving record, I have 5 things total sense 1978. and 2 things in the last 10 yrs. although I am no saint I do respect others on the road. I got a driving record from the registry also that afternoon and It was the same report just had a stamp on it.

[labrax]

Bob,

Ever thinking for working for a large facilities management company like a CB Richard Ellis. They have a ton of commercial properties all over the place. They manage the property where I work, seem to retain their HVAC staff, Electricians, etc. for years and I think compensate them decently. May be another option to check out aside from plumbing contractors.

Your boss must be named Pinnochio after giving you the insurance bump/sealt belt violation nonsense.

[tattoobob]

My plan is to become a trade school teacher in the near future. I have to find out all the details. but I need to do what I can do best :teach/fish