there you go. you just found work for him so now it is in his ball park.
there is always work out there for those with initiative. while he is waiting on his other jobs to come in he can do things not entirely suited to what he wants. that is life.
i am being critical but i see this all the time.
while i agree with some what with your post there are times when things are beyond your control and it spirals downward from there.
while i don't like putting my personal life on the web for the world to see i guess its ok since none of ya'll know me. my story is a perfect example of things that can happen beyond your control.
i had only been in biz for myself as a small time utility subcontractor for a few years before the housing boom went bust several years ago. i started out with 1 truck and 1 machine and 1 helper. biz was doing so good i expanded to 3 truck and 3 machines and 5 helpers. was'nt getting rich but lived comfortably . bought a new house and managed to sock away a few dollars at the same time.
when the housing boom went bust my work started dying off and i started down sizing to where i was back to 1 truck...1 machine and 1 helper again.
during the next year i took any and every job i could find trying to stay afloat. iwent from working 6-7 days a week down to 1 or 2 days a week. on the days i was not working i was out looking for jobs.
needless to say over that year i had to continuaslly dip in to the money i had accumulated just to stay afloat. also i started to get behind on my payments on everything i had.
also during these trying times it affected my family and i wound up losing my wife and son.
i was contacted by a contractor who had heard of my reputation of doing quality work that wanted to hire me.he said he had plenty of work for me. problem was it was in alabama.
with my last 1,000.00 i had to my name i moved my equipment to alabama....borrowed a frinds 12' camper for me and my helper to stay in and went to alabama .
it took me 2 weeks to complete the 1st job. oh yea....my rear end went out on my machine the last day of the job. 8,000.00 to repair it. did not have the money to get it fixed and i was behind on my payments on my last repair job so i could not get it fixed on credit. the contractor tells me he will rent me a machine and take the payments out of what he owes me. sounded like a good deal.
so here i am waiting 30 days for payment on the 1st job i completed. i go home that weekend and find a foreclosure notice on my house from the bank.damn just when things are starting to look up this happens.
i go back to alabama and finish another job that week, gotta wait 30 days on that payment. go home again that weekend.
go back to alabama the next monday and find that the office/shop blew up sunday night. the mechanic had used the shop to work on something of his and it turns out one of the torches had a leak and blew the place up killing him.
they shut the place down for the whole week while looking for another building to house their office and shop. it also destroyed all the billing records.
i dont need to bore you with any more of this long ass story....needless to say i lost my house and am no longer in biz for myself.
