What Would You Do?

denick

If you could go back and influence yourself at 16 or 18 years old. Would you recommend to yourself the life in construction as an Operator, Driver, Laborer, Foreman that you now have?

Nick

rino1494

Well, I am still young yet at the tender age of 25. I went to college for 4 years and earned my Bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice. There aren't too many high paying jobs in my field and I realize that I am making more money now then I would be in the CJ field. My eyes are always open for jobs, but I love what I do now and one of the most important aspects of a job is if you are happy with it.

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jmic

Nick,
Screw this, if I could go back to that age I'd be watching out for the Name Bill Gates, and what ever I could beg, borrow, or steal would be going towards Microsoft stock when it was just coming out. Then I could be somewhere sipping on Mai-Tai's on some remote Island.

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Teetorbilt

I would have stuck with law.

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jojo

I would just like to have Hugh Heffner's job

TMatt142

I'm with Rino.....I did college and all that but to be honest, My grandfather pretty much trained my brother and I into this life. He started a highway heavy company in MN. So every summer off of school, do you think my brother and I stayed home, ran around with our friend jumping in pools???? Heck no......we took a plane to MN and woke up all summer long at 5am to go to work with gramps and maybe get to ride on a track hoe with an operator that would let us play around a little! Na......this is my life and I wouldn't trade it for anything.......well, maybe anything BUT hugh Heffners life!

dayexco

i've always been kind of an arguer, debater...i think it would be fun now with my construction experience, to have a law degree like teetorbilt said he did. i've had to have an attorney represent me a few times, couldn't afford to have a const. specialist come in. shirt.........you gotta teach them all there is about what you do.

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someday, i'll be as patient as Nick.

PipeGuy

Ditto.
If I had an 18 y/o like myself at that age I'd be grooming him to start buying me out in 15 years. I think the one thing I'd change, other than not going into construction at all, is starting a business earlier in life. I was 42 when I took the dive. I think it would have been better to do so at 32 had I some well informed guidance.