Posted by NCWayne on August 09, 2015 at 08:59:12 from (173.188.169.54):
In Reply to: O.T. What next? posted by T.E.C. on August 09, 2015 at 08:00:19:
I'm 47 and have been working on tractors, both farm and construction, since my early teens. Heck, at 15 or so I saw splitting tractors and putting in clutches by myself.
I've often thought about getting into something else a little easier, but I truly love what I do. Yes, getting dirty, skinning knuckles, etc can get old after a while, but the job requires a set of skills that not that many people now days have, and that makes every day different for me. Today I'll be in the shop welding up something, tomorrow I'll be 40 miles away working on a dozer, and the next day I'll be 300 miles away doing a line boring job 100 feet up in the air on an industrial crane.
In other words, there is always something new to see, or do, and every job has it's own set of challenges. To me that is what keeps the work exciting.
As far as something else to get into for you, what do you enjoy doing? In my case I've thought about gunsmithing. I enjoy the mechanical aspect of the guns, and I enjoy shooting. Heck I'd love to start building them from scratch too. With the way things are right now even the small gun shops are having no problem keeping their bills paid, so even selling them makes sense. As far as the first idea od gun smithing, out of all the local shops to me, only one has a gunsmith and, from what I am told, he keeps a backlog of at least a month. If your good at what you do, and especially if you get into working on the 'specialty' guns (((like the guys on TV at red Jacket used to do))) there will always be a market for your skills.
I also had a neighbor that told me the other night that jetski repair was big if your in an area with a lake. The guy he uses to repair his, again, keeps a several week backlog and charges $80 per hour. I imagine he makes good money given he works out of a two car garage behind his house, so the overhead is low.
Ultimately if your anything like me, it's the mechanical part of the job that you enjoy. Maybe them putting you in a supervisory position, instead of being in the shop, is what is making it so boring now. I know for me that would kill my enthusiasm for the job as I have to be hands on to keep my interest, as well as to give me the job fulfillment that keeps me getting up and going back for more ever day.
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