Any Construction Workers on DU?

[GiveMeFreedom]

Hi,

Just Curious if there are any construction types on DU.

I am a heavy equipment operator. 25 year union member.

[senseandsensibility]

1. Not me

But I am a union member. And welcome to DU!:hi:

[NBachers]

2. Ex-construction & building maintenance and repair, working now in local family-owned home care store

But Lowe's is building a huge mega-complex not far away.

I've got health care, vacation, float days, employer-matched 401K, yearly raises, and a cooperative & friendly work environment. I've got freedom, autonomy, and my contributions are valued.

At the age of 61, I'm glad to have something allegedly stable. I rode the ups & downs and clawed for work 'till I was 56. I was still carrying sheetrock up switchback stairwells and hauling heavy bags of wire-lath plaster debris back down. It was time for a change.

My company actually values my age, knowledge, and experience. How rare is that?

I sure hope we can keep our business going after Lowe's opens it's shiny new complex with all the parking and everything.

Stick around DU. Don't let the trip-wire mousetrappers snap your tail and scare you away.

[madokie]

9. This has to be the best line I've read in a long long time

Stick around DU. Don't let the trip-wire mousetrappers snap your tail and scare you away. Priceless. :hi:

[NBachers]

13. Mousetrappers

Attackers
Quibblers
PC fundamentalists
Highjackers
Arguers
Hair-splitters
Last-word getters

I'm not including trolls- Trolls are fun. I'd rather be trolled than mousetrapped any day.

[Rincewind]

3. Carpenter's union

37 years, retired last year.

[griffi94]

4. i was a operator as well

pipline construction. i haven't done it i a long time tho.

[Unrepentant Fenian]

5. Union Carpenter here nt

[flying rabbit]

6. Union Millwright

"keeping industry aligned"

[mariema]

17. My Dad was a Union Millwright

and my Grandad was a Union Blacksmith for a railroad. It's in the blood.

"What's a Millwright" is an oft asked question. My Dad's answer was: engineers design the machines, millwrights make them work.

[flying rabbit]

21. Millwrights:

making engineers look good.
:hi:

[Lochloosa]

7. Electrician here. 27 years in construction.

[madokie]

8. Construction all my life

too old and disabled to do much anymore. Dozer operator for 4 years building farm ponds and cutting in roads, clearing land of timber etc. Framing and trimming houses for several years, Industrial electrician for 12 years, mostly converting machinery from analog to digital control, finished my work career as a concrete finisher though. For some reason I liked finishing concrete as a work best, probably because of the money as I made a shit pot full of it doing that. As a disabled person I'm constantly upgrading our house, remodeling adding on etc. Designing and building electric vehicles is my hobby now, working on another yard cart that I've used the motors and controllers off a power chair for propulsion, complete with seat for me and a dump bed.

[Ganja Ninja]

10. Commercial Air Conditioning for 22 years. n/t

[Brickbat]

11. Mr. Brickbat posted here long ago, but no longer -- he was a union carpenter and an agent.

15 years or so. Construction has really gotten bad here, though, so he switched careers and is now a union locomotive engineer.

[Flashmann]

12. Union

I'm a life member,2 years retired,after 34 years of service in the International Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Trades...

[paulk]

14. sort of

I worked for the union pacific railroad for 20 years as a carpenter/painter/welder - left over 10 years ago and didn't work in that field until about a year and a half ago when I got some work painting houses and doing light carpentry. Can't really work in heavy construction anymore - my back can't take it...

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

15. I do project administration and HR for a construction company

here in non-union NC. I hire all sorts: carpenters, pipe fitters, engineers, field engineers, crane operators, equipment operators, etc.

[Lochloosa]

16. Need an outstanding Project Manager?

:evilgrin:

[Umbral]

18. No, but by father was, OELU, 50 years, ret. nt

[electricD]

19. IBEW member here

since '94. I worked non-union for 7 1/2 years before that. Although things have been tough the past couple of years. I'd still rather be on the union side of the fence. I'm only 41, and I don't see myself doing thing all the way to "eligible" retirement, too much strain on the body.

My dad worked maintenance in a factory here for 38 years before he retired, ALL 38 years he was a dues paying member. I'm the only one of my siblings that keeps the torch burning for the union brotherhood.

fraternally,
electricD
IBEW L.U. 474

[Subdivisions]

20. 13-year union sheet metal journeyman here. n/t

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

22. Good.

(√) Construction worker
(  ) Biker
(  ) Sailor
(  ) Cowboy
(  ) Indian
(  ) Cop

[The Midway Rebel]

23. Residential and Commercial Fire and Security Systems

for 17 years. CCTV, card access systems, burglar alarms, fire sprinkler etc. Did telecom systems for 5 years before that, now retired from that and thinking I should have stayed in. Went to college to earn two BA's, now underemployed and over educated.