Anybody in the construction field?
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KyokushinKarateMan
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Never officially worked for a construction company but here's my one of my first experiences with construction work 
...well, one of these assignments had me working as a 'cleanup' guy at a construction site on a bridge within the city limits, dead in the middle of the summer
First we were 'up top' and our job was to dig 'sand' from around these huge posts that used to be a part of the former bridge, so that they could move them or something. Somehow they'd drained the water from that part of the const. site yet everything was still soaked, including the so-called 'sand', which turned out to actually be 60/40 wet sand/ground up ROCKS
Thanks to my lifestyle and activities my physical condition allowed me to perseverebut it was BRUTAL..and the crackhead 40 something year old brother they sent with me couldn't shovel more then two scoops without resting, complaining, cramping, bawling
Then they moved us to the bottom, underneath the bridge to remove heavy debris and rubble with gloves on. Everything was cool until I almost pierced my foot with a nail sticking out of a board, bent down to retrieve said board, and saw a baby moccasin sitting there next to it, chilling
Of course I jumped out of my skin. Baby poisonous snakes are more dangerous than adult because they inject all of their venom vs having constraint like adult snakes and only injecting a small amount or even what's known as 'dry biting' when they know their target isn't a possible meal. And as Im calling old-head over to witness this beautiful creature of death I almost met personally, I notice two more in a little puddle about 5 ft away. Just sitting still chilling.
It was crazy. I could only think to myself 'Im down here slaving in tropical-like heat, for minimum wage, for a temp agency, with no workman's comp, near some poisonous snakes..cant be my life right now'. And there were plenty of them too. We stood still and adjusted our eyes and scoured the grounds closely; after about 10 mins of looking we counted a total of 11 baby water moccasin snakes within a 15-20 ft radius of one another, smack dead in the middle of our 'work area'.
Afterwards we just continued to work(however very carefully), mind-blown that this is where they had us, in these conditions. All told I made about 38 dollars that day after gas expenses
Sorry so long with the post, but I see some of these posts up here saying this job was hard and that job was hard etc etc..yall don't know the half. I could tell stories for days about some of the most demeaning and hard work assignments you'll ever hear.. good work experience though.
Never officially worked for a construction company but here's my one of my first experiences with construction work
That's bananas
99% of my work is indoors
Some shyt is a lil dangerous but nothin too crazy
A lil asbestos never hurt nobody
Aye man you still working in this field?
I got an electrician apprenticeship n shyt. Wanna have a solid career blueprint so Im tryna reach out to more experienced brehs about it.
Yes I am
Any questions, just ask
I would've gave you some basic info but I'm in nyc and I'm not sure where you're at
Either way, congrats and you made a better decision than I did
street heat
merchant of death
OP what do you do exactly ? run twisted pair lines inside houses/buildings or what ? what does it pay?
Yeah. That's pretty much what I do
I run low voltage cable
Voice/data, security, av
Don't really do residential
It's always buildings, hospitals, offices schools, shyt like that
It doesn't pay that great
I'm at like 21.50 or something
I get a $2 raise in week
Being in the union helps
Guaranteed work, guaranteed raises, benefits
It just sucks my union sucks
street heat
merchant of death
do you get overtime ?
I'm in Delaware (yea theres blacks and Latinos here) but I'm tryna join a union down south or out west if possible.
And thanks, why do you feel like it's too late to change/advance with the work you do?
porque
Boricua Guerrero
Yeah. There's definitely over time
Not everyday but it's often
And with my company there's always night work so you get paid more for that as well
I feel like it's too late because I can't afford the pay cut that comes when you first join the electrical union out here
In the long run it would be worth it but I can't survive getting half of what I get now for the next 5 years
I'm not sure how it is where you're at but over here the first 5 years for ya are tough
But it's worth it
You could go from getting $15 an hour to $36 an hour over night
And once you complete your 5 years you take that wherever you go
In my field that shyt don't matter
I got 9 years in
If I go to another shop I lose a lot of the shyt I worked for in this 1
It would be a good career move but I wanna get out the northeast. Why unfortunately tho?
Ah I see that's a tough spot. Our unions start around 17/hr frm what Ive heard but depending on your responsibilities that ain't shyt.
17 is good to start
Much more than in ny
How much do you make after your apprenticeship
No idea honestly I'm a newbie. I'll get back to u tho