kittybeast said:
You would NOT change for $10K more a year?!? 10K is 10K and at an average wage increase of 6% it could take years to reach at a current employer. But when you're happy u r happy
What are your requirements? just curious as we had ours when we were looking and couldn't find all in one home. But for the next home will defo require all of my home needs to be met
Absolutely not. I have "been around the block" so to speak, working here for two years, there for a year etc. I think extremely highly of both my skills and my "vision" of a way a business should be ran. I have a hard time dealing with rules and regulations that don't affect quality/efficiciency and safety and are only put in place to make things easy for upper management. I also am intolerant of "idiots" who are in management/supervisory positions due to nepotism or whatever. Those factors tend to limit my success in corporare life. I choose instead to befriend machinery and technology.
I don't think it is possible to "master" ANY trade or profession, but it is even more difficult to master what I do. As an industrial technician, I have to be competent with mechanical systems, electrical systems, electronics, hydraulics, pneumatics, welding and fabrication, machining, plumbing and anything that has to do with making repairing/maintaning/improving complicated industrial machinery.
I am not satisfied with being "competent" in those fields, but the best there is in not just one, but all of them. It is a daunting task and it is something I look forward to everyday. That is not to say, I have never been where I didn't feel like going to work on that particular day, but it is not due to my duties at work or because my current employer is not supportive of me become the best technician I can be.
As far as wage increases, I have only been with Flowers Foods for 15 months and have received a three dollar per hour raise and a promotion (to lead shift engineer) after only ten months of service. Unfortunately, in order to progress any more significantly, I will have to go into supervision then management which will limit my time building my skills. Being a shift supervisor wouldn't limit it that much, but progressing farther would be a detriment to my hands-on skills. That is a crossroad, I will deal with once I get there though, I suppose.
As far as requirements for my house ? I want land. I want five acres, but will consider three. The house is less important, but has to keep us comfortable for a few years until we build on the property. I need a shop in the back and a fenced yard (at least partially.) Ideally, to stay in my price range, a newer double-wide mobile home is ideal considering we will build a house on the land in five years or so after my wife is settled in her nursing career. A smaller modern house is also a consideration since we can build onto it, but something forty years old is not well insulated etc. would be a headache. I also want it sort of between my town and the one I work at and also in the country. I don't want it so rural we don't have neighbors, but I don't want those subdivisions around where they clear all the trees out and put houses 20 feet apart either. THese are two places I am considering...
http://www.navicamls.net/listings/252/PC357081086B.htm
http://www.navicamls.net/listings/252/PC333111086A.htm
I like the second of the two better due to the acreage and barn/shop even though it is a mobile home, not a stick built house. In the long run, it will cost more money for that one because I will have to build from scratch, as opposed to building on rooms with the other one. However, that property is perfect on the second one.
Bryant
And Jorn owns!
