Job Interview

TMatt142

Well guys, just got back from an interview up in MN with a contractor. Hopefully yours truely will be back up there running work for someone by this spring. The company isn't near as big as my uncles company, they employ about 70 people compared to my uncles 500. Still, it's road work which I've kinda been away from so I'm excited to hear back from them this next week. All those crane courses I took this winter and now I won't really get to use them like I thought!!!

dayexco

what company your uncle own?

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someday, i'll be as patient as Nick.

denick

I'm hopin for the best for you TMatt,

Good Luck.


Why would anyone want to go to MN????

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Nick

"Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving" Albert Einstein

Cat385

Whats the name of the company in mn?

Dustball

Come on over and find out for yourself!

rino1494

Just curious to why you left your uncles company.

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Uncle Sam wants YOU....to speak ENGLISH

TMatt142

Well first off, my uncles company is Shafer contracting out of Shafer MN. They are a highway heavy company, which has 3 batch plants, two mainline paving crews, 57 tandems, 35 bellies, 25 D6's, 10-15 D5's, 2 637's, 7 710's, and 4 track hoes. Each year they rent up to 20 additional track hoes depending on work. They do everything from pipe to paving. They even have their own traffic control division. Uncle tries to rely on his own company as much as humanly possible. Now, I left simply because it was either "the company" or lose my kids. I know it's really not that simple, but in a way it was. Long story which I don't care to bore you all with. I didn't want to leave, but sometimes ya gotta do what ya gotta do. Long story short, I've got my kids and have "righted" the proverbial "family ship". Missouri is a funny state to work in. I've had a tough time trying to get someone to allow me the opportunity to be a foreman. Seems that down here, you aren't hired as a forman based on work experience but rather, how well you know the up and ups. I am more marketable up in MN because of the jobs I've run and the people I've networked with because of that. Oh, well aside from MN being cold, it is a GREAT state for work, lots of it and owners aren't afraid of giving a guy some OT. Plus you get 3 or more months off to collect unenjoyment.....which is closing in on 600 a week.

pigseye

Hey Matt what company did you interview with up here, I work for Midwest Asphalt corp and see you Uncle's outfit everywhere, just curious. And yes you are right lot's of OT up here but I love it, work six months and relax six months.

TMatt142

Well, Just heard today from the last contractor I interviewed with! Looks like it's a go. BTW, I interviewed with Forest Lake Contracting. Now the fun begins!!!! Shopping for a new house, ....in a decent school system for the kids, ........ not too close to be in the "burbs" but not to far away that I have to take up farming to eat,......paying WAY higher taxes no matter which state I decide to live in (MN or Wis). I can' wait! Kinda weird though, working for a company down here while I wait to go to work for the company I now work for up in MN! And the #1 best reason. Like pigseye said....Six months of work...six months off!!!!! WHOOOO HOOOOO. No enjoyment like unemployment!!!!!