I quit over six years ago. Put away the hooks, still got a couple Sadelco meters and some rusty coring tools. I bought my truck with 50k miles on it, and six years later I've got about 80k. I used to drive 50k a year!
After the rebuild was over there was no reason to go back. I remember installers bragging about their $1200 checks when gas was $2/gallon. I had to laugh, knowing what real money was like, but still home every day and a good tech could average $15$20/hr after tools /truck/gas/taxes /overtime/benefits and everything else a contractor gives up to be his own boss. I planned on installs after splicing, but when the rebuild ended and Comcast became the Evil Empire the prices dropped from $1200/week to $800/week, and gas and insurance just kept going up. No way. After you do the math, you work for less than $6/hr. I was a good tech. 40 drops, 20 sticks, 100 units. I was pretty frigging good, but if good techs can't make $1000 in 5 days there's a serious problem.
It takes an absolute moron to work that hard for that kind of money. You have to be stupid.
Re: Is anyone still making good money contracting?
Member #: 26502
Registered: 11/10/2003
Posted:
108
Name:
matt
Company:
cc contracting
Occupation:
cable guy
Location:
manchester
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