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Re: in house or sub whats better?

It all depends on their situation.

Contracting is a young-man's game.  If they are young, single, no kids, no wife ... Go try it as a contract installer.  Superlong hours each day 6 or 7 days a week, they can learn a lot if they apply themselves.  More hours = more money.  Get it while they are young.  Almost no benefits, but who needs them when you're 22yo and healthy as an ox?  S#!t starts getting physically harder once you're over 40yo.  I can still do it, just not as fast anymore.  In contracting, speed = $$

If they are looking for security:  I.E. Benefits, fixed hours, company truck .... all for less take-home money ... Then in-house with the MSO might be the way for them.  There IS value to medical, health, dental benefits when you have a wife and kids, so don't discount that.  Being in-house you're not paying for any vehicle costs.  Gas, insurance, registration, maintaince...all company paid.  No need for Gen.Liab.Ins either.

My advice ... Have them drive out and find both types of workers in the field and chat them up.  Buy a field tech lunch and he'll tell stories for an hour so you get a good picture of the day-to-day job and what it takes.

One other thing:  In-house or contracting.....both prefer to recruit new employees/contractors that have NO experiance.  This way they can train them they way they need to AND there are no bad habits for them to break.

Good Luck,

RadioMan
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