Off to an interview

[D Bone]

Best of luck! BTW, what is 'GC'?

[LBC mike]

General Contractor. Shit starting to fall apart in October. All stems from shit work by people that claimed they know how to do shit and don't. I went through 60 fuckers in my first year. Had to do a lot of rework, guys not showing up to work for days., etc..

[LBC mike]

Okay, so I might be a freak fan. I hate this time of year. I am a browns fan in Long Beach CA...... a place that is not a place for a browns fan. My buddy moved to San Diego from L.A. who is from Ohio and so I can't watch a Browns game with a fellow fan this coming year. Wife is a fan via marriage. she is a girl fan of chargers. she likes the browns because of me.

You guys in Ohio get news feeds and shit. I get nothing other than NFL network and ESPN (manziel network formerly the Tebow network). College football sucks around here.. Hate USC. Okay with UCLA but nothing significant.

Wife is talking about selling out house and moving to Ohio. I really want to. she talks about it.

Sorry for my tidbit burst post.

[slowburn]

let the lies and deceit begin'.....jfk

remember, always be closing

[LBC mike]

@slowburn said:

let the lies and deceit begin'.....jfk

remember, always be closing

don't get it..

[miktoxic]

@lbc-mike said:

General Contractor. Shit starting to fall apart in October. All stems from shit work by people that claimed they know how to do shit and don't. I went through 60 fuckers in my first year. Had to do a lot of rework, guys not showing up to work for days., etc..

GC doing what kind of work? residential? commercial? high rises?

my girl (HA!) works for a GC. they build commercial buildings from the ground up (walgreens, shoprite, medical offices etc.). she's been at some type of GC for over 30 years.

i guess it all depends on where you can find work and does it equal out the cost of living and by what margin. my best friend's son is the foreman for the concrete GC of a new 33 story building in the city. before that he worked for an internationally renown building that did some fancy schmancy art gallery in SOHO. kid is making lots of money. lives in hastings on the hudson which is like a mile south of me. big money. big rent. big mortgages. there is a big influx of out of state workers where i live on the hudson because of the new tappan zee bridge construction. guys will come in, work for 4-5 years, make a big nut, then go back to wherever they came from hoping to find some other type of work. lucky ones might get hired on by local companies and will have to move their families here.

the plan for us was/is to make your NY money, build your rep in NY and then move back to ohio where you can ask for big money (compared to others doing the same job) because of the fact that you have that NY (or any other big city) rep. people want to hire those who have lived in the big city rat race because they know they can handle almost any situation. not saying that others working elsewhere couldn't do the same, just saying there is that perception.

[miktoxic]

@lbc-mike said:

2 surface streets away from my house.

we call those 'blocks' where i'm from.

[DieHardBrownsFan]

Cost of living in Ohio is way less then LA County, way less.

[tml1138]

Good luck to you. What very little I know of GC work would be residential...and that means working on my own house. Lol. Doing a complete basement project that includes a full bath and kitchenette, so it's basically like building a small house (besides the roof). I've even had to have some foundation work. Finding the right people to do the work outside of what I'm doing myself, and then finding the right products for the job....it sucks! And I'm sure what I've done pales in comparision to everything you do as a GC.

I hope you find what you're looking for...

[miktoxic]

cost of living in ohio is way less than LA or NYC. if you can move to ohio and make even close to what you were making in those big markets you'll be living like a king.

[Kosar_For_President]

@lbc-mike said:

You guys in Ohio get news feeds and shit.

Dude set up Google alerts for the Browns to your email. Easy.

[USFBrown]

@lbc-mike said:

Okay, so I might be a freak fan. I hate this time of year. I am a browns fan in Long Beach CA...... a place that is not a place for a browns fan. My buddy moved to San Diego from L.A. who is from Ohio and so I can't watch a Browns game with a fellow fan this coming year. Wife is a fan via marriage. she is a girl fan of chargers. she likes the browns because of me.

You guys in Ohio get news feeds and shit. I get nothing other than NFL network and ESPN (manziel network formerly the Tebow network). College football sucks around here.. Hate USC. Okay with UCLA but nothing significant.

Wife is talking about selling out house and moving to Ohio. I really want to. she talks about it.

Sorry for my tidbit burst post.

Cmon man! This is the age of the internet. You don't need to live in the same state for news coverage. There are plenty of web sites, apps, and other things you can get your info from!

I love the Browns and my family in Ohio, but not nearly enough to move from sunny Florida. I love Orlando. I can be outdoors almost year round.

[MLD Woody]

@miktoxic said:

know a bunch of people in the biz. you CAN make money doing the GC thing but it's much more stressful and not the same security as working for someone else (depending on the co., i guess).

i think MLD woody was going to michigan for structural engineering.

anyhoo, give 'em hell!

I just graduated from Michigan with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and I'm going to work as a Manufacturing Engineer for a large company a lot here have probably heard of. You weren't that far off though.

Good luck to the OP as well.

[Tour2ma]

@mld-woody said:

Good luck to the OP as well.

Ditto... hope the interview went well. Did it?

[LBC mike]

Think it went well. had them laughing a few times. worked along with their company on some large projects before in the past.

[Tour2ma]

Cool... never a bad sign... unless you did not mean to be funny.

[Mr. Make-Believe]

@lbc-mike said:

Think it went well. had them laughing a few times. worked along with their company on some large projects before in the past.

Be sure to let us know about the call on Friday, man. Best of luck to ya!

[miktoxic]

just tell them you're a browns fan.

you'll be a shoe in.

[MLD Woody]

@miktoxic said:

just tell them you're a browns fan.

you'll be a shoe in.

Always worth that pity spot for the 2nd round interview

[utzie]

@miktoxic said:

just tell them you're a browns fan.

you'll be a shoe in.

Believe it or not, I talked to my current boss about the Browns for a solid 15-20 minutes during my initial interview for a co-op a few years ago. It was during the 2012 preseason and we talked about Richardson and Weeden being the future of the team... lol