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Sooo...I'm starting work in construction / landscaping tmrw

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15 hour days...should be a good workout lol
 
Traz, figure out how the system works...you'll be fine.

PS I'm talking about the business side not the "work hard" side.
 
Hello weight loss. I couldn't keep my weight up in the summer doin construction. But I was always shredded no matter what I ate
 
Howcome these things always happen at the beginning of the hot summer??? Me too. Although my main business is the avocado ranch with my wife, I do all the maintenance and construction on several small apartment buildings in SoCal, and I'm going to have to replace the siding and carport on one of them in July. In the sun, and probably during a Mexican humidity storm. Somehow I know that when the black slate roof happens to need work on the house, that will be in the month of August :rolleyes:

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Fuck guys - 2 days down...this sdhit is hard, but I swear I feel my hands, wrists and forearms getting stronger lol
 
I know what you mean! I was in sales for 10+ years here in the UK. The economy is f**ked and the money isn't out there like it used to be so for the last 8 days I have been working for my brothers fencing company - 7am - 5pm 6 days a week starting the day loading the trucks with the concrete/steel posts, gravel boards and fence panels. Being new to it I am the donkey that does all the lumping/lifting/digging while the people with experience do the more skilled stuff. I can barely close my hands into a fist right now and its my day off! a 220lb, 10 foot concrete post doesn't have the nice smooth machined edges like the barbells down the gym!

Def overtraining, will need to up calories in a big way

Do you think a manual labour job is a good idea when rest is so important?
 
dave bird said:
I know what you mean! I was in sales for 10+ years here in the UK. The economy is f**ked and the money isn't out there like it used to be so for the last 8 days I have been working for my brothers fencing company - 7am - 5pm 6 days a week starting the day loading the trucks with the concrete/steel posts, gravel boards and fence panels. Being new to it I am the donkey that does all the lumping/lifting/digging while the people with experience do the more skilled stuff. I can barely close my hands into a fist right now and its my day off! a 220lb, 10 foot concrete post doesn't have the nice smooth machined edges like the barbells down the gym!

Def overtraining, will need to up calories in a big way

Do you think a manual labour job is a good idea when rest is so important?
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I was making 90k a year looking to make 100k up until a few months ago...depression hit me hard with divorce and I quit my job in anger...I'm on the verge of being broke and I need a job. I started construction. I'm a simple man and I believe everything happens for a reason. This can be good.
 
traz cheers for you for getting it done and putting food on your table anyway possible.
not knowing much about you though, are you cut out for this sorta work?
i kinda imagined you to be kinda pretty and well off, not used to getting dirty and taking shit from dumbfux who are gonna be your bosses.
ditch the landscaping work and find a carpentry trade, roofing is hard as fuck but relatively easy to pick up and they appreciate a bull like yourself who will be able to move bundles with the quickness.
or framing, not a lotta skill required and a good way to learn the art of construction...trim is the easiest on your body, otherwise you are gonna bang the fuk out your bones
 
binö said:
traz cheers for you for getting it done and putting food on your table anyway possible.
not knowing much about you though, are you cut out for this sorta work?
i kinda imagined you to be kinda pretty and well off, not used to getting dirty and taking shit from dumbfux who are gonna be your bosses.
ditch the landscaping work and find a carpentry trade, roofing is hard as fuck but relatively easy to pick up and they appreciate a bull like yourself who will be able to move bundles with the quickness.
or framing, not a lotta skill required and a good way to learn the art of construction...trim is the easiest on your body, otherwise you are gonna bang the fuk out your bones
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I don't mind getting down and dirty bro, remember where I come from, I've been through worse shit...not bad for a pretty boy eh? lol
 
I dont know much about other countries and I know building/construction will wear a body out pretty quickly but its a pretty well paid gig here in the UK - Some serious dough for price work. £100 per fence panel is the going rate and me (with my lack of experience) and my brother who has been doing this for years threw up 19 panels in 8 hours - £1900 with the materials costing under £700 makes a profit of £1200! Granted it was a good day but this is also mainly cash in hand work

Mind you, wont be feeling so positive when my alarm sounds at 5.30 am in the morning lol

Im gonna treat this experince as a kind of experiment - can still barely make a fist!
 
it is physically really hard...I don't know anyone in construction that doesn't have blown lumbar discs and blown rotator cuffs
 
the_alcatraz said:
I don't mind getting down and dirty bro, remember where I come from, I've been through worse shit...not bad for a pretty boy eh? lol
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yea right on, i guess it's hard to be pretty growing up in a war torn country.
but the west has made you soft!!
another good option would be to get on a pipeline doing non-skilled labor...hard work but you could make some good money untill you can find work you are more accustomed to doing
 
Having worked a labor job for a few days here or there in my teens, I know it is pretty tough. Roofing in the sun is some hot dangerous shit!
 
binö said:
yea right on, i guess it's hard to be pretty growing up in a war torn country.
but the west has made you soft!!
another good option would be to get on a pipeline doing non-skilled labor...hard work but you could make some good money untill you can find work you are more accustomed to doing
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Agreed bro, this is a temporary thing. I have two university degrees, but I'm just in a slump and need money. I'll work any job to put money on my table. I can apply for unemployement, but I wont. I'm not your stereotype immigrant and I refuse to leech on the government. I believe in working hard for my money.
 
Was cleaning a roof yesterday and I found a dead squirrel, that thing stunk up the whole fuckin place the whole day..try laying bricks with dead squirell stench, yuck!
 
the_alcatraz said:
Was cleaning a roof yesterday and I found a dead squirrel, that thing stunk up the whole fuckin place the whole day..try laying bricks with dead squirell stench, yuck!
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I used to ride motocross with a guy who laid cinder blocks for a living. He was lean and normally proportioned -- but freakishly strong.
 
the_alcatraz said:
Agreed bro, this is a temporary thing. I have two university degrees, but I'm just in a slump and need money. I'll work any job to put money on my table. I can apply for unemployement, but I wont. I'm not your stereotype immigrant and I refuse to leech on the government. I believe in working hard for my money.
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Very admirable.
 
My neighbor is a stone mason...kind of a biggish guy, little bit of a gut.
hardcore alcoholic and also freakishly strong....
laid my bluestone capped fieldstone steps hammered to the bejesus with very simple tools

did it in a day shitfaced out of his brain...they came out gorgeous
 
the_alcatraz said:
Agreed bro, this is a temporary thing. I have two university degrees, but I'm just in a slump and need money. I'll work any job to put money on my table. I can apply for unemployement, but I wont. I'm not your stereotype immigrant and I refuse to leech on the government. I believe in working hard for my money.
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I have been laid off twice since I finished school. The first time was actually not a lay off the company I work for decided to change sales pay structure gave us a letter on Friday that we need to signed by Monday. I took it home ran the numbers and I was like wtf I am going to make way less MOFO.

Anyways my step father (tradesman) who doesn't even have his high school but has had his own business since he was 19 wrote a letter for me. I went in on Monday and handed it to my boss. They thought I got a lawyer the letter said basically you better lay me off or else. So they laid me off.

I was out of work for almost 2 months I did collect EI then. There was no way I could have survived with out it. Fact is I had paid into EI since I was 15 that's when I got my first job and never collected in 9 years. It's called employment insurance for a reason your not sucking of the system you paid into just like car insurance. Now welfare that is sucking off the system.

The second time I was laid off was over 2 years ago it was right before Christmas real nice F U but I had a job before the new year started.

I can say that both times what happend was a blessing. I just didn't know it at the time I am way happier doing what I do now then I was years ago. I still don't make as much money as I made 4 years ago but the quality of life the company I work for now offers is way better so it's a trade off.

P.S. Trade jobs can be seasonal so at some point you might have no choice but to collect EI. My older brother transitioned to a trade a few years ago and he's way older than you are so it can be done if that's the path you want to go.
 
shirlene29 said:
My neighbor is a stone mason...kind of a biggish guy, little bit of a gut.
hardcore alcoholic and also freakishly strong....
laid my bluestone capped fieldstone steps hammered to the bejesus with very simple tools

did it in a day shitfaced out of his brain...they came out gorgeous
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must have been irish..
 
I was a mason for over 10 years and also did other bits and pieces of construction as well. After a short time your body adjusts and you gain your working mans strength. Because of my job I barely if ever trained shoulders or traps. Nor did I need straps when dead lifting over 500lbs.
 
I collected unemployment in 2010 and part of 2011. I've been law abiding Skittles eating tea drinking tax payer for over 25 years. I don't feel bad and I didn't spend any at the strip club. You're entitled if you've worked hard.

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Good luck traz
I know how you feel I've been laid off for going on 8 months now.
BUT i have a real promising interview next Tuesday :-)
Nothing wrong with hard work bro my job is physical as well and i will definitely be increasing the cals.
I had no idea that my work burned so many cals until i was laid off and about 6 months in my bf shot up to 18%+
And it seems like it's been 10x harder to get off without working, just to much down time.
 
I deserve it good bros. I had a good job and was making real good money. I got up and quit. They asked me to stay but I was on depression meds and wasnt thinking straight. I fucked up. Now it's sink of swim for me. Nothing wrong with collecting from the government, but I will leave it for someone who cannot work. I can do a million things including hard labor to get myself out of the hole. I've only been in Canada for 4 years...I don't feel like I deserve to get gov. funds...had I been working in Canada for 10-20 yrs and I lost my job, that's a different story.
 
the_alcatraz said:
I deserve it good bros. I had a good job and was making real good money. I got up and quit. They asked me to stay but I was on depression meds and wasnt thinking straight. I fucked up. Now it's sink of swim for me. Nothing wrong with collecting from the government, but I will leave it for someone who cannot work. I can do a million things including hard labor to get myself out of the hole. I've only been in Canada for 4 years...I don't feel like I deserve to get gov. funds...had I been working in Canada for 10-20 yrs and I lost my job, that's a different story.
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Youre a true Boss rob
 
the_alcatraz said:
I deserve it good bros. I had a good job and was making real good money. I got up and quit. They asked me to stay but I was on depression meds and wasnt thinking straight. I fucked up. Now it's sink of swim for me. Nothing wrong with collecting from the government, but I will leave it for someone who cannot work. I can do a million things including hard labor to get myself out of the hole. I've only been in Canada for 4 years...I don't feel like I deserve to get gov. funds...had I been working in Canada for 10-20 yrs and I lost my job, that's a different story.
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Much respect to your mentality Robert
 
Al you're gonna be burning a whole lot more calories than you ever have during your life. Don't be afraid to snack on some candy or high glycemic carbs throughout the day. And stay hydrated, it gets brutal in the sun.
 
I pack some tuna and salmon sandwiches in the morning and I bag a shake...also normally Subway for lunch and pasta with chicken and shrimp soon as I get to my girlfriend's bar after work...
 
the_alcatraz said:
I was only able to get a 6-hour shift today...felt like eating candy. I think I'm getting used to the discomfort.
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Nothing like manual labor to re-evaluate your job aspirations. I remember slinging bails of hay for $2.00 an hour when the minimum wage was $4.25; It inspired me to gain the skills for an opportunity for a better job; Sometimes you just have to bite your lip and say yes Sir...:)

Like I said, you're doing honest work for honest pay..no shame in that.
 
the_alcatraz said:
I deserve it good bros. I had a good job and was making real good money. I got up and quit. They asked me to stay but I was on depression meds and wasnt thinking straight. I fucked up. Now it's sink of swim for me. Nothing wrong with collecting from the government, but I will leave it for someone who cannot work. I can do a million things including hard labor to get myself out of the hole. I've only been in Canada for 4 years...I don't feel like I deserve to get gov. funds...had I been working in Canada for 10-20 yrs and I lost my job, that's a different story.
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Gonna have to revoke your Honorary Negro card, homey.

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Today was by far the toughest so far, holy shit man...I did 8 hours of demolition, breaking tiles, floors, concrete, walls, and carrying sinks, bathroom stuff, and steel rails up and down stairs and shit...then more demolition.
 
Hmm....not sure Nan, depends on what life throws at me...I just did a 15 hr shift and I am too damn tired to breath. I'm going to do a few laps at the swimming pool in my condo then jump in the hot tub. Join me?
 
the_alcatraz said:
Hmm....not sure Nan, depends on what life throws at me...I just did a 15 hr shift and I am too damn tired to breath. I'm going to do a few laps at the swimming pool in my condo then jump in the hot tub. Join me?
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Bish lives in Florida invite me over to the hot tub I thought we was buddies :mad:
 
Ok ladies. Nan, Superqt, Shirl - let's all jump into the hot tub...no seriously though...I'm going down to the weight room in my condo, then doing some laps, then jumping in the hot tub...
 
nangiggles said:
I was the chef of a catering service for several years.

Before y'all give me shit about my roasts keep in mind I make those for 2 people, one of them (not me) who inhales them in seconds, hence why no presentation or garnishes.
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I bet your roast looks good, no pun intended :evil:
 
DannoMight said:
You'll make it. Then nap when you get home. Work, shower, eat nap that's how I did it for over 10 years.
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The only way I can wake up early and hit the hay, so to speak is by showering early in the morning...

I'm napping as soon as I get home and before I hit the gym and swimming pool...also hot tub every night in my condo building helps...
 
lol 2nd day with no shift this really worries me I thought I was doing an exceptional job why is he giving me days off?? :(
 
well at least every 15 day shift counts as 2 days worked, maybe they cant give you overtime passed certain hours cuz you're new...
 
its normal traz...if he only needs a ceratin crew..or has to meet a specific profit margin...you're the new guy, you'll get days off first

when the ex had the construction biz the junior guys always got the days off first
 
shirlene29 said:
its normal traz...if he only needs a ceratin crew..or has to meet a specific profit margin...you're the new guy, you'll get days off first

when the ex had the construction biz the junior guys always got the days off first
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If I dont work 7 days a week I wont be able to keep up with my bills fuck
 
That sucks bro.

Last Friday was my last day at my second job(butcher).

For one solid year I worked a minimum of 72 hrs a week.

Sucks but once you pay off depts, credit cards, cars, etc. You realize without unessary crap its much easier to live simply.
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