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Old 04-24-2015, 10:32 AM
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Thanks guys! I appreciate it.

Well..... gotta run. I am supposed to go into work at noon, but I've been going in earlier... sometimes 9, and work till 10/11/12 even 1 am. Trucks here run in the day, we fix them at night. I'll catch up with you guys about midnight!
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Old 04-24-2015, 10:53 AM
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Good luck Jonathon. I ran municipal street, water, and sewer departments. When the fleet manager retired the 120 vehicle fleet and 3 mechanics fell to me also. Some long days in the winter. Retired in 2012 and seem busier now.
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Old 04-24-2015, 10:56 AM
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Good Luck Jon...
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Well, I guess this is a good spot to make an announcement.

Guys, I changed jobs last week. I still have my shop and still do some work, some work.... by appointment only.

I got hired on by Republic Services to manage two shops for them. I'm now over a fleet of about 60 vehicles (trucks, pup trailers and pickups). The job is intense but I'm enjoying it. After 13 years of running a business it's a little different. It's a completely different stress load in that it's mine to manage, but it's not MINE. I get paid no matter what. No money to collect, no line of customers, just one company to keep happy. I enjoy the fact that I spend most of the day in an office in front of a PC and on the phone. I go out and help my guys, but I don't even have a toolbox in the building, (in other words I'm not expected to wrench). That's how it's supposed to be in life.... work hard so that someday you get paid well for what you now know but don't have to work so hard. (At least not physically. My brain is on overload. )
I got a new job also, not really but we hired a new guy a few weeks ago so now my job includes babysitting. congrats on the new job Jon.
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Old 04-24-2015, 11:21 AM
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Cut Lawns from 10 to 16 yrs old
Then did light mechanical in a full service filling station while in high school for $.95 an hour for 3 years.(42 hr a week)
2 days after graduating H.S. went to Ford @ $2.16
(Fantastic wages in them days)
They sent me to college for 4 years learning skilled trades.
I gave it all up as a lost cause after 40 years on midnight's fixing everything you can imagine that they broke on the day/afternoon shifts.
Also small farmed for 30 of those years,as well as did light vehicle/motorcycle repair, when I wasn't working 12 hours/7 days

The last 11 years just enjoying spending what I saved and getting my Gubber-mint social security money back and hobby farming
Looks like so little when you put it in writing.
Kind of like these last 11 years the best, but I miss my youth.
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Old 04-25-2015, 02:58 AM
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Thanks guys.


George, the guys from your generation are to be admired. I spent 13 short (seems like longer) years running my shop and am kind of happy about the change. Don't know how some people spend 40 years in the same place. I couldn't do it.
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Good luck with the new job Jon.
I worked for a job shop type machine shop for 10ys and thought why am I making money for someone else ? Started my own shop and work twice as hard.
I hate collecting the money, I give companys 30 days and most use up all thirty some stretch to 60 plus. They think I'm a bank I guess.
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Good luck with the new job Jon.
I worked for a job shop type machine shop for 10ys and thought why am I making money for someone else ? Started my own shop and work twice as hard.
I hate collecting the money, I give companys 30 days and most use up all thirty some stretch to 60 plus. They think I'm a bank I guess.
And that's a prime example of why nothing leaves our shop without it being paid in full regardless of who it belongs to, we've pissed off a few million dollar drilling companies because we won't let them pick up there trucks without paying. Like you said people think we're a bank and have an endless bank account.
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Propane for the past 11 years. Business is booming right now and they keep giving me a paycheck every week, I guess I'll stay.
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And that's a prime example of why nothing leaves our shop without it being paid in full regardless of who it belongs to, we've pissed off a few million dollar drilling companies because we won't let them pick up there trucks without paying. Like you said people think we're a bank and have an endless bank account.
Amen to that brother. Back in the day when I was in the concrete biz I had a smart A$$ that flat out told me he wasn't going to pay for the concrete in a foundation that we poured and that there wasn't anything we could do about it. I just smiled and had this sent over and demolished his foundation. Yep I didn't get paid for it but he didn't get to build a house on it. I also let all the other producers know what the deal was. Payback is B_____th
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