Anybody want a job?

Anybody want a job?

Its surf related, because the house is five minutes from Rincon, and we can take off if there are waves. 

I’m finishing up a house, and I could really use someone with carpentry and tile setting skills.  Heck, even if you don’t, I’ll teach you.

Wish I could take you up on this.

That’s a nice offer, Mark. 

I would be too distracted with the surf. I’ll keep my Chemical Industry job for now…Ray

in 2005 I was Shanghied to do the interior of the surfing industries most hated man, the wages were 1000 bucks a week, well the weeks were sun up to sun down 7 days a week, with a righthand point break 5/8 a mile away, I could see it from the upper bedroom while I built and installed the 14 foot circular hand rail. I got in the water 2 times in several trips for a half hour, “time to get back to work” !

The 22’ circular stair well hand rail, laminated and glued inside of the already painted house with out F-ing up the paint, 12 feet of base cabinets in the kitchen that all ran out of plumb and not straight along the floor, every stair tread and riser in circular case were of different heights.

After 5 days of no sleep on the last trip, the owner gave me a Lunesta, I slept from 9 PM to 6AM, he went to Cabo to the Homedepot, I started working…then spun into the deepest depression you can imagine, I am NOT bi-polar, manic depresive.

I wanted to throw an extention cord over the open beam ceiling and step off into space with the other end around my neck, I made him fly me home that day

Jim, i feel your pain If my bosses treated me half way decently, I would have never gone out on my own.

And only a thousand a week? I pay top workers twice that, and that’s for a 40 hour week.

Mark,

Last spring, i would have taken you up on that.my trades are carpentry, drywall & tile. I’ve been swamped up here in Cayucos for the last six months & have remodels starting next month at a hospital & a church. I could sure use some time off (need to set-up my garage for building boards) so I can start my next three boards.

Seven days a week and let’s say a 10 hour day @ $1000/wk equals about $14/hr.  Entry level laborers make $15/hr where I live. Low end for a skilled carpenter is around 30 with the top guys getting 45-50/hr.

I would have bailed on that job after a few days.

Ftom everything Jim said in his post I would bet he was building a house for Sean Collins of surfline in Baja.   

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