Hard to say. Still employed, but on circumstantial layoff. 4 years ago worked for dad as carpenter building 3-5 custom homes a year. 3 years ago left to work for excavating company because things got slow and to be honest he didn't need to be worrying about keeping me busy. Stayed busy with excavating company, but initially there were 275 workers in the field. This winter there were 30 foreman and 30 workers. Overtime elimination and 10-15% paycut across the board. Never laid off, but hard to make money at. Last year dad finally ran out of jobs and got first job in 28 years working for a gc company that builds schools. In april he calls and says they are looking for a carpenter. Absolutely, excavating company has no jobs- not looking good. Working for the GC is good, they used to have 150 men working, now they have 8, all of which were the top foremen. Have 2-1/2 years of work lined up in school construction, but nothing for 3 more weeks. Interesting note: The job that was supposed to happen in sept got pushed back to november, hence the layoff. That job is at Aberdeen proving grounds. They are putting in a 20 million dollar building, but they are doing it as a remodel of existing structure, so its costing them 62 million. There was no budget for new construction, only remodeling- so they chose to strip the existing structure down to bare steel and dirt, and rebuild that way. Good to know my tax money is being wasted by a bunch of idiots.
Long story short, Still working, but I know plenty of good people that do not have it nearly as good as I do. I am thankful every day that I am where I am.
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