Admin nuggethunting Posted October 10, 2015 Admin Report Share Posted October 10, 2015 Hello All, We arrived back late last night and had a great time. I'm up early working on orders and returning a ton of calls I missed. I'm in the office if you need to reach me now at 623.362.1459 or text or call my cell at 602.909.9008. Will be working on orders most of the day along with a few customers stopping over. Having minor issues with the online store going down. I'm working on it and hope to have it back online around Noon today. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldies1955 Posted October 10, 2015 Report Share Posted October 10, 2015 Welcome back Rob!I got all the gold while you were gone...so no need to look for it anymore Tom H. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOC Posted October 11, 2015 Report Share Posted October 11, 2015 Glad you got some family time Rob.Now you will pay the price for playing. I have always estimated that for every day I take off, it takes me about 2 1/2 days to catch up.If I take 2 days of, it will take the entire 5 days of the next week before I am totally caught up.Being self-employed allows you to have more flexible time. Instead of working 40 hours a week you get to work about 65 hours a week. You get to stay up til 3am so you can talk to overseas suppliers. All kinds of fun stuff.Good luck!Doc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin nuggethunting Posted October 11, 2015 Author Admin Report Share Posted October 11, 2015 Hey Doc, You are correct, it's Sunday around 2:30pm and I'm only half way caught up if you want to call it that. Spend all day Saturday packing orders. By the end of the night, I should be in a good position. My wife said to enjoy and relax. All I could think about is all the shit that is stacking up at home and then chasing my Daughter from the pool, to the waterpark, to the beach and back. I did get to see some of the most beautiful underwater creatures snorkeling off Caribbean Reefs though. A Monster sized spotted stingray swam right under us and I never thought I was going to get my Daughter back in the water after that moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Tom Posted October 11, 2015 Report Share Posted October 11, 2015 In other words you guys work longer and harder than most of us that work for others. Many is the time that I thought that I would rather work for myself with the hours I was putting in as a lineman/cable repairman for the telephone co. Many times it was 100 hrs. a week during storm seasons. We all complain all the way to the bank sometimes but we keep on doing. Thank God we are able to do it and provide in our best way for our family's needs. Glad you could afford a vacation, some don't. :-) Old Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOC Posted October 12, 2015 Report Share Posted October 12, 2015 In other words you guys work longer and harder than most of us that work for others. Many is the time that I thought that I would rather work for myself with the hours I was putting in as a lineman/cable repairman for the telephone co. Many times it was 100 hrs. a week during storm seasons. We all complain all the way to the bank sometimes but we keep on doing. Thank God we are able to do it and provide in our best way for our family's needs. Glad you could afford a vacation, some don't. :-) Old Tom You're absolutely right. If we didn't love it we wouldn't do it. I'd rather spend 100 hours a week working at something I enjoy than 40 doing something I hated. Believe me I had a 40 hour a week job that I absolutely hated. I worked at Caterpillar Tractor as a security guard. Absolutely the best job in the world. Tremendous pay, time and a half for overtime, double pay for holidays, best benefits in the world, our first child costs us not 1 penny out of pocket. Easiest job in the world. Work the gate, walk rounds and punch the check in clocks, it was a job anyone would kill for and I absolutely hated it. The biggest problem was it was graveyard, and I just have never been able to adjust to graveyard work, and it was boring as hell.. For me it was like being in hell. That's when it is really bad, when the money is so good you can't afford to leave but you're miserable.Doc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin nuggethunting Posted October 12, 2015 Author Admin Report Share Posted October 12, 2015 Hey Old Tom, Most don't realize I work a full time, M-F job maintain the integrity of the Power Grid. I have been involved in building some of the largest Substations in Arizona, which supply power on Transmission lines from 500,000 volts down to Distribution level voltage at 12,000 Delta or 12,470 Wye. Having a stressful job like this along with a full-time business is not easy, but we do what we do! The old saying, the more you make, the more you spend somewhere! Hey, I had to pay for that $10,000 detector also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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