I want in???
Member #: 35123
Registered: 12/26/2004
Posted:
9
Name:
Chad Bilstein
Name:
Chad Bilstein
Company:
Self Employed
Occupation:
Coaxal, Copper Splicer, Central Office Tech
Location:
Colorado Springs, Colorado
I work for a major communications company that pays well. It has great benefits and is a fairly secure place to work. I could probably make the same 68K every year for the next 25 years with no problem. Yet despite all this, I want to run my own show. I want to be out on my own. It would require me to travel a lot and work longer hours. I could gross 150K, but after paying for equipment, insurance, workers comp, perdieum and taxes, I might eek out 70K in the end. What is wrong with me??? I'll tell you what it is. I want the freedom of who I work with and who I work for. Being in a union, I am surrounded by lazy people just looking to get by. I like digging in the dirt and I feel better when I give an honest days work to get an honest days pay. I could go in to work like I do now and do a lax, easy job where I work 3 hrs and get paid for eight, but I feel horrible about it. I would rather struggle in the trenches than have it handed to me on a silver platter. I respect you out there that struggle every day. You are true to yourself.
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