Nate.been been busy remodeling a rental house.call me,I am home now.we can get the Subaru going.

Nate, on a serious note...Boeing in Everett is always hiring, you'll start out at 14-15 hr, but in 5 years you'll be making 34-36 hr depending on Cola and CBO's. That's what I did after I lost my job of 12 years..nine years ago. You have to pay your dues. You will have to come up with some bogus work history to fill your gaps...that shouldn't be too hard with some creativity. Gas prices are dropping too. Just do it!

Not to mention KILLER benes and two weeks off paid around XMAS/New Year..... every year.

$200 a week with a subaru could get you a job in fuking Montana! $400 a week after taxes is about what I'd expect or more.

If you wanna get in shape, make good money and do a little traveling, you should look into roofing. Commercial roofing that is. I did it for a while and we did mostly thermo plastic roofing. If you have the skills you say you would be applicable, you're still young. I made good money but I tried to throw my foreman off a roof one day and we went seperate ways. I called in sick with the flu, the one and only time I had, one the day they happen to be doing evaluation and were giving $4/hr raises. I was a damn good worker and was told I would have to wait until next quarter. I almost had Steve thrown over the roof when I snapped out of it. Yelled and kicked [Bleeeeep!] and that was it. Still pisses me off thinking about it. Anywho, I was out of shape and scared when I started. My back felt like it was broken the first month but after you build strength and find ways to get through the day its kind of awesome..




Some of thise jobs pay prevailing wage at $40+/hr.
And there were many over 34, but it ain't for eveyone.

$36? Damn. Tempting...I just paid 2.99 for a gallon today.


Again Nate, you can't keep avoiding the fact that you need steady work history to get dream jobs. It's competitive.

I've met a lot of Roofers...they're tough bastids and mostly crazy.

my dream job is going back to doing what i was doing...

and all the people i know because of my dad, well, that wont be a problem...

i also have friends that own their own companies, in the same work i have been doing, landscape construction and home construction, but they all live close to me, within 30 minutes...

im 1.5 hours away from Seattle where i live, going with no hickups... now factor in traffic, and what do you get?

i should have the job part under control, and if not, Nick will be the first person i talk to... but i got this...

and fvck roofing, im not good with heights and pitches, i had to install flashings on 3 story condos and 8 story apartments, and it wasnt fun at all.. thats not me saying anything bad, im sayin fvck that sh!t, that aint for me...

At least the traffic is better.

I worked on flat roofs generally. Plastics on big chit. Mostly layers of insulation, glie down the edges and throw some screws down. Occasionally you would get cheap cousties who wanted us to throw tar down and essentialy roll the plastic down. That sucked worse and was more scary than I can relay through text. All the tar wen down like an ocean at once. They didn't want it getting on the clean white plastic finish. It was slippery as fuk, before I had worked there a guy had to get across to somewheres and stepped in the molten chit and slipped and fell right on his face. Didn't get his face I don't think but melted his clothes on to him and did bad damage to his arms. They always made us where long sleeve blue shirts when we worked with the stuff. Made the day hot as hell, but offered a chance for the tar to cool when it inevitably hit your arms.

I had two heat strokes or exhaustions, while I worked for them. We partied pretty fuking hard though. Had a couple Irishman that were in my small crew and they taught me how to get drunk. Played a game called tomo todos (sp) a lot that was fun. Anyways, the drinking I'm sure was partially responsible for the heat, but on two occasions I went into puking fits and hit the ground and my ENTIRE BODY became cramped. Always happened when I got into my air conditioned hotel. Actually that happened several times to a lot of us and we drank mpre water than was safe while working. They saI'd the white roofing was mirror like and added 30 degrees to the heat under the sun. And we only worked under the sun..lol.

Young and having fun, partied a bit much but what are you gonna do

The only time I was ever scared or not having fun was repairing the sheet metal roof on a bottling plant in Vancouver. We were directly above the glass melting pot or what ever, about 100' or so. Super steep pitch and we had to be tied off. Each section we pulled off was hot as chit. The exhaust for the furnace was huge and about 10' away from wjere we worked. You could spit on it and it would boil instantly. Really small section and only took a week or so. I remember the firat piece we pulled up, only three of us, and seeing the giant pool of liquid orange glass directly below us. Something I wasn't aware of going in and will never forget.

If you can get your dream job through your dads buddies, well....than I don't know what we are talking about. If you don't want to work than you aren't going to.


It would be fuked up if you were to let BB work on or fix your car and then not use it for transportation to work.

id love to work at Boeing, my grandfather did for over 35 years (i have the pin somewhere), and was one of the lead designers during that time frame... he died in 85 tho, so i didnt get to see anything cool... Boeing is the sh!t...

i gotta go through stuff and start selling sh!t off i guess... i just dont know what to sell, and what to keep now... fvckin stressful...

They dont monitor web usage either

1.5 hr from Seattle? where are you living? Aberdeen?

did another 12 hour day. cheers.

Nate, why do you have to seel chit? For the car fix? Put those okies on ebay than.

Graham/Puyallup...

takes 55ish minutes just to get to Renton, maybe a tad more...

takes 45 minutes to get to my brothers in Covington...

Gas doesn't burn at the same rate in traffic. Again, work history is paramount.

work history means jack sh!t when you are talking me and talking to these guys...

hell, if i wanted to go through bullsh!t and make great money again, i could go directly back to where i quit from...

So what's the hold up?

Ok. My bad. You must be a rare case. Good luck on your ventures. You won't get where you want to be without some bullchit.