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MADFORMOPAR said:
plg/hvac sales ...I talk for a living.. i was a manager for 20 years in the same field for a competitor, but got tired of baby sitting 50 year old men. 3 more years and im out of the game! The industry treated me well for the most part and I'm at a good place with this company Im @ right now for the last 5 years..The good thing about this industry is that you make alot of great connections with ALL kinds of tradesman. i'm a hands on guy and they help me trouble shoot with any bullshit i have in and around my house
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Sounds like a good job. I been in the body shop pounding fenders most of my life.
 
MADFORMOPAR said:
plg/hvac sales ...I talk for a living.. i was a manager for 20 years in the same field for a competitor, but got tired of baby sitting 50 year old men. 3 more years and im out of the game! The industry treated me well for the most part and I'm at a good place with this company Im @ right now for the last 5 years..The good thing about this industry is that you make alot of great connections with ALL kinds of tradesman. i'm a hands on guy and they help me trouble shoot with any bullshit i have in and around my house
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Ex-Commercial HVAC Service Tech here. Messed-up my knees and back years ago, did Tech Support/Training for McQuay/Daikin for a few years, but got really tired of traveling (esp. during Covid), and now I'm like you- sitting at a desk, doing quotes, for a small/medium size mechanical contractor that treats me pretty decently. They say I can work from home, but it's a PITA, so I commute most days.

Hoping to retire on Memorial Day (92 working days to go), but financial advisor just said, "Hold up a second...", so we'll be setting-up another meeting with him in the next few weeks to see what's on his mind.
 
ProjectBazza said:
Ex-Commercial HVAC Service Tech here. Messed-up my knees and back years ago, did Tech Support/Training for McQuay/Daikin for a few years, but got really tired of traveling (esp. during Covid), and now I'm like you- sitting at a desk, doing quotes, for a small/medium size mechanical contractor that treats me pretty decently. They say I can work from home, but it's a PITA, so I commute most days.

Hoping to retire on Memorial Day (92 working days to go), but financial advisor just said, "Hold up a second...", so we'll be setting-up another meeting with him in the next few weeks to see what's on his mind.
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You must be retiring early ya don't look that old Jim.
 
ProjectBazza said:
Ex-Commercial HVAC Service Tech here. Messed-up my knees and back years ago, did Tech Support/Training for McQuay/Daikin for a few years, but got really tired of traveling (esp. during Covid), and now I'm like you- sitting at a desk, doing quotes, for a small/medium size mechanical contractor that treats me pretty decently. They say I can work from home, but it's a PITA, so I commute most days.

Hoping to retire on Memorial Day (92 working days to go), but financial advisor just said, "Hold up a second...", so we'll be setting-up another meeting with him in the next few weeks to see what's on his mind.
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havac is a great profession. but, still hard on the body. the great thing about your proffesion, is that not everybody can do what you do, but everybody thinks they can do plumbing. So plumbers are killing each other for customers that will only pay them for what THEY think they are worth. Nobody knows much about HVAC so...the price is what they pay and they dont bicker about price. around these parts anyway
 
Frodee said:
You must be retiring early ya don't look that old Jim.
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Just turned 60 yesterday, Fred. (And thank you!)

No kids, no debt, and always been able to save. And same story with my second wife, so just call us a couple of DINKs, I guess.

Time to start collecting on what I paid-in all these years.

And time to start giving back, as well.
 
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MADFORMOPAR said:
havac is a great profession. but, still hard on the body. the great thing about your proffesion, is that not everybody can do what you do, but everybody thinks they can do plumbing. So plumbers are killing each other for customers that will only pay them for what THEY think they are worth. Nobody knows much about HVAC so...the price is what they pay and they dont bicker about price. around these parts anyway
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You know what they say about plumbers: All you need to know is, "**** flows downhill"!

We have some plumbers on-staff here, and thankfully when I say that they take it well!
 
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MADFORMOPAR said:
mornin fred
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Got the urn box for my pal built yesterday, little sanding and stain this morning. Grade school friend, 10 sec scamp, snowmobile racer, didn’t like to drink to much but that’s okay I had him covered in that department. Have a hole in my heart, will be missed, but it’s part of life.
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ProjectBazza said:
Ex-Commercial HVAC Service Tech here. Messed-up my knees and back years ago, did Tech Support/Training for McQuay/Daikin for a few years, but got really tired of traveling (esp. during Covid), and now I'm like you- sitting at a desk, doing quotes, for a small/medium size mechanical contractor that treats me pretty decently. They say I can work from home, but it's a PITA, so I commute most days.

Hoping to retire on Memorial Day (92 working days to go), but financial advisor just said, "Hold up a second...", so we'll be setting-up another meeting with him in the next few weeks to see what's on his mind.
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Hope you can retire it's a great life
 
Ahoey said:
Got the urn box for my pal built yesterday, little sanding and stain this morning. Grade school friend, 10 sec scamp, snowmobile racer, didn’t like to drink to much but that’s okay I had him covered in that department. Have a hole in my heart, will be missed, but it’s part of life. View attachment 1716353678
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So sorry Murray
 
I've been quite lucky I have only lost one good friend in my 76 years but I'm sure that will change.
As my one friend says " we're at the age where my wedding suits becomes my funeral suit"
 
Mark Wainwright said:
Hope you can retire it's a great life
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wouldn't want to be a tile setter....now THAT is real hard on the knees and back profession. Framing is a hard body breaking job as well. Lets not talk about roofing!..... Hoping my son will get into Hvac or electrician.. still only 15. ( not sure if he is a car guy just yet).oh yeah..good morning
 
MADFORMOPAR said:
wouldn't want to be a tile setter....now THAT is real hard on the knees and back profession. Framing is a hard body breaking job as well. Lets not talk about roofing!..... Hoping my son will get into Hvac or electrician.. still only 15. ( not sure if he is a car guy just yet).oh yeah..good morning
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My brother was a self-employed tile guy in Spring Grove, Illinois. He made good money, and he has some nice toys, but at only 64 years of age his body is a mess. When he was about 50 he tore the rotator cuff in one shoulder, and then he tore the other a few years later. He’s had multiple surgeries on both shoulders over the years, but the end result is that now he can barely lift a gallon of milk with one hand/arm.

(This is the same brother who was recently diagnosed with Parkinson’s.)

So-called “blue collar” workers are DESPERATELY needed in this country, and the pay can be pretty good because of this, so if your son is so inclined, please try to steer him away from the body-breaking professions.
 
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