Is anyone busy

I was just wondering how everyone else is doing in construction right now i am in the Heating and Air buisness and it is SLOOOWWW right now
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Finish contractor Sloooooww My suppliers tell me they'er starting to see more plans available to bid. :thumb Talked to friends in Salem OR and Boise Id. same thing.
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DeadI
I work for a Architect and we are only working on just a handful of house plans were this time last year we have around 15 - 20 homes we were working on. We are however seeing a few more commercial plan coming in hopefully things will turn and change for the better soon.
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killerbee
it is very SLOW right now. i really am glad that while it was booming i stayed with my boss rather than going out on my own liscence. i work for one of the biggest contractors in are area and it is down to me. [ and him but he dont work lol ] i haven't missed a day of work [ unless i wanted to] and have a couple months ahead of work. but it's scary. you never know at the end of the jobs we have lined up right now if any more will come in. there is basically NOONE working here. i basically do it all from start to finish. so it doesn't take a ton of work to keep me going. i've been setting tile and finish this whole winter[ which has been great] i sure hope this econamy pics up. but i dont see anything hapening anytime soon :>/ :>/
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Hiker
I personally think it's time to buckle down for the long haul. We had a good year with beef and sold every quarter, to bad there's very little profit in raising cattle. God has been blessing this venture more each year and after 15 years of raising beef we are starting to get it consistently in the black. My car & truck store has been slow for 5-6 years but Amen we're still open and it's been paying the bills. We have a couple of milk goats on the way and ordered chickens, both egg & meat birds this past week. Plan on having a garden this year. We haven't had one in 10 or so years, as I got discouraged with freeze outs, hail, etc. It's hard to grow a garden at over 7,000 feet and our short growing season. I told the Mrs. that I'm gonna stay home this year and not try to draw tags "out-of-state" for myself this year but I still plan to put Jessica & Luke in some out of state draws. I only get them for a few more years and Lord willing, I'm going to make the most of it. I get more of a kick from guiding than hunting myself anyway.
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I work for Comcast in Portland and we have been busier than ever, normally this is our slow time but still getting 15+ hours of ot a week. IM glad i still have a job and are busy though.
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My employer laid off half the work force so we are busy. I've taken over running another CNC Horizontal Machining Center and am surely busy. We make aerospace components. The average age of the guys left is about 55 years old!? :-k He knows I don't care to work too much and I can get unlimited planned time off. There's been no pay cuts which is nice and he says we can survive this. Everything is settling down and people are focusing on their jobs instead of how to keep them. There's always the tent to live in so we're okay in the long run if things go south. The hardest thing to manage has been the rise in crime. You need to lock everything up or it disappears. Violent drug related crime is skyrocketing too. God's in charge. It'll be okay.
Mark
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basingater
Im in the oilfield and as most know it is way slow right now but we are still going forward!
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kinzysdad
un employed Transportation/Warehouse Manager.
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79Ford
I'm in the stone tile importing business (travertine, slate, marble) and it's gotten pretty slow, but we're still keeping our heads above water. I cant complain too much, I still get my 40 hours a week and a work vehicle. We sell to a lot of flooring stores throughout the area and luckily the orders keep coming through the door. Now if people could just pay their bills life would be easier.

Any way you look at it things could always be worse. Even if we all end up living in tents down by the river, it could be worse. I hope it never comes to that but we just have to be thankful for what we have, even if all it is is a tent.

Now if the President would send us all our portion of that stimulus package rather than creating a stimulus package to nowhere then the economy would be in better shape IMO. I know there are a lot of things i could spend that money on that would help at least a few businesses bring in some more $$. Just for reference 1,000,000,000,000 (yes that's a trillion) divided between 304,000,000 people (est U.S. population July 2008) would be $3289.47 for every man woman and child, give or take a few cents.
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Hiker
79Ford,
You're correct, no matter what we need to be thankful. :thumb

Using your 304,000,000 population, our current gross national debt is 10,753,000,000,000.00 So the American people are currently over 33,000 in debt per man, woman and child. That little baby that came home from the hospital today, is already 33,000 in debt. http://zfacts.com/p/461.html
These politicians want to keep adding to that number. Sooner or later we're going to pay the piper.
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79Ford
"Hiker" wrote:79Ford,
You're correct, no matter what we need to be thankful. :thumb

Using your 304,000,000 population, our current gross national debt is 10,753,000,000,000.00 So the American people are currently over 33,000 in debt per man, woman and child. That little baby that came home from the hospital today, is already 33,000 in debt. http://zfacts.com/p/461.html
These politicians want to keep adding to that number. Sooner or later we're going to pay the piper.
 The piper in this case is foreign countries namely Japan ($580 billion), China ($390 billon) and the United Kingdom ($320 bilion). Just like that buddy who loaned you $20 a month ago they will come knocking and asking for their money back.

If I took my credit card out and charged up $10,000 on whatever I wanted and didn't consult my wife about it first then I guarantee you i'd be out sleeping with the dog (if I was lucky). I dont see why government thinks it's a good idea to keep spending all this money and expecting us to pay it back without any consequences to them. Spend spend spend and then raise taxes to pay for it....... No thank you! I don't care if it's government or business or marriage or what, more debt is a bad thing. Lower the taxes and it will boost the economy, live within our means and pay back our debts. Easy fix that doesn't cost a trillion dollars........
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killerbee
"79Ford" wrote:
Hiker wrote:79Ford,
You're correct, no matter what we need to be thankful. :thumb

Using your 304,000,000 population, our current gross national debt is 10,753,000,000,000.00 So the American people are currently over 33,000 in debt per man, woman and child. That little baby that came home from the hospital today, is already 33,000 in debt. http://zfacts.com/p/461.html
These politicians want to keep adding to that number. Sooner or later we're going to pay the piper.
 The piper in this case is foreign countries namely Japan ($580 billion), China ($390 billon) and the United Kingdom ($320 bilion). Just like that buddy who loaned you $20 a month ago they will come knocking and asking for their money back.

If I took my credit card out and charged up $10,000 on whatever I wanted and didn't consult my wife about it first then I guarantee you i'd be out sleeping with the dog (if I was lucky). I dont see why government thinks it's a good idea to keep spending all this money and expecting us to pay it back without any consequences to them. Spend spend spend and then raise taxes to pay for it....... No thank you! I don't care if it's government or business or marriage or what, more debt is a bad thing. Lower the taxes and it will boost the economy, live within our means and pay back our debts. Easy fix that doesn't cost a trillion dollars........
 you would think.... i would vote for you right now for a country leader. it really seems that simple. why the heck doesn't are country leaders see it this way ](*,)
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I don't thing our leaders see it our way because this is an opportunity for some greedy, powerful people to line their pockets at our expense.
Mark
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79Ford
It's all about putting money into the pockets of the people who got them there and buying votes for the next go around.
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