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I thought that I would start this because we seem to get a lot of people just getting off the ground or are interested in doing so.
I'll open the ball.
My dad was a GC and engineer. My earliest recollection, (about 4 yrs. old) was chipping mortar from old brick. He insured that I started from the ground up and I was paid the same as others with my qualifications at the time. Throughout my teen years my paycheck went up and down like a yo-yo but he made sure that I was paired with the best. As a result Iknow how to do almost anything related to construction with the exception of modern roofing. If you want to know how extensive, ask. It includes wrought iron from scratch.
My father was killed in 1973 and the one thing that I was not totally prepared for was the PAPERWORK and it is much worse today. My bookkeeper/office manager left to get married prior to Memorial Day, moved to the West coast too, and as much as she tried to explain it all to me, there are always little things that keep popping up. Today I just found out that I am supposed to be generating reciept reports to a national contractor, know wonder I have boxes of stuff filling up the shop! Nowbody told them that it was here! I didn't know that this form even exsisted.
Just part of the fun of being a small business owner. My paycheck is still very much better than working for somebody else.
I'll open the ball.
My dad was a GC and engineer. My earliest recollection, (about 4 yrs. old) was chipping mortar from old brick. He insured that I started from the ground up and I was paid the same as others with my qualifications at the time. Throughout my teen years my paycheck went up and down like a yo-yo but he made sure that I was paired with the best. As a result Iknow how to do almost anything related to construction with the exception of modern roofing. If you want to know how extensive, ask. It includes wrought iron from scratch.
My father was killed in 1973 and the one thing that I was not totally prepared for was the PAPERWORK and it is much worse today. My bookkeeper/office manager left to get married prior to Memorial Day, moved to the West coast too, and as much as she tried to explain it all to me, there are always little things that keep popping up. Today I just found out that I am supposed to be generating reciept reports to a national contractor, know wonder I have boxes of stuff filling up the shop! Nowbody told them that it was here! I didn't know that this form even exsisted.
Just part of the fun of being a small business owner. My paycheck is still very much better than working for somebody else.