OT Roger Update Was (Anilam Crusader II - how many "event's"?)



RogerN wrote:

Well, I moved out of town, got a house with ~4-1/2 acres for $41,500
(property is cheaper around southern Illinois, few good paying jobs).

Roger:

Well that's pretty cool. Be glad you don't live in the Valencia Calif.
area. The median price for single family home in January 2006 was about
620k, and even for just a condo it was 397k!

I
went to work for Continental Tire around 3-1/2 years ago as an electrical
technician. I've picked up a few "out of town" hobbies (shooting,
reloading, fishing, bought a backhoe to play with), between overtime at work
and other hobbies, haven't been doing much posting.

How dare you let real-life interest interfere with Usenet posting!


Continental Tire has been cutting our pay and benefits a little each year.
This year they took a pretty big chunk, 10% of wages and another 13%-15% on
our benefits. I guess this is how they thank us for voting NO on the Union.

Cutting back your pay? That's pretty drastic. But if you had voted in
the union the plant would probably have been shipped to Mexico.


Anyway, these pay cuts at work, combined with decrease in overtime, has me
looking to either make some money in my shop or sell some equipment to pay
down bills.

It might be time to take the experience you've gained at Continental
Tire and see if it has value as a bargaining chip in your resume to
other tire manufacturers.


Any ideas how to make some money in the home shop? (Billet
Keychains?)

IMO, any trinkets can be made cheaper elsewhere. You'd need to do
stuff than can't be exported, like sevice/repair, or work for companies
that need stuff "Right Now".

I wish you the best of luck in your search.

--
BottleBob
http://home.earthlink.net/~bottlbob
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