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It's time to come together and join hands and hope and or pray for a member here that we all have enjoyed his tec and fellow ship with.
Join in and get this great man a job to get him out of a slump and back to work.

Send him a job [-o< I am getting worried about his peace of mind and happiness [-o<

I hope our prayers are answered and ramcharger gets the call to join a company that needs his help :color:
 
Good Luck Ramcharger,
I totally know what you're going through.
Prayers sent.
Another idea for networking, copy from sign I had on my back window at car show last week:

Will Work
For Job!!!
Unemployed & On Layoff.
If you know of anything open, Please let me know. I can do:
Printing Co. Management, union & nonunion.
Pre Press Management
Paint & Body Work
Auto restorations
Landscaping & golf course maintenance

It brought a few comments I overheard, but no offers. Hey it was just an idea & I thought I would try something different, sorry I guess it was the printing salesman in me!
I'm thinking I may post a flyer at car wash, store, etc.

Again Good Luck and stay open to new ideas you may have!
 
Things are starting to pickup here in Canada,so I hope it,s a chain reaction for guys in the states!Joe,keep your head up and stick to your guns.Keep applying to every avenue and something will pop up.Good Luck in your search for employment!Can you give the doggies a pat for me?There always there for you!:clock:
 
memike said:
It's time to come together and join hands and hope and or pray for a member here that we all have enjoyed his tec and fellow ship with.
Join in and get this great man a job to get him out of a slump and back to work.

Send him a job [-o< I am getting worried about his peace of mind and happiness [-o<

I hope our prayers are answered and ramcharger gets the call to join a company that needs his help :color:
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Thanks so much Mike. I saw this thread and busted out. I don't even know what to say but thank you so very, very much.

homecloned said:
Good luck ramcharger, I can not offer a job but will send some positive vibes your way. [-o<
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Thanks Homecloned. Good vibes are just what the doctor ordered. :)

64dart170 said:
Good Luck Ramcharger,
I totally know what you're going through.
Prayers sent.
Another idea for networking, copy from sign I had on my back window at car show last week:

Will Work
For Job!!!
Unemployed & On Layoff.
If you know of anything open, Please let me know. I can do:
Printing Co. Management, union & nonunion.
Pre Press Management
Paint & Body Work
Auto restorations
Landscaping & golf course maintenance

It brought a few comments I overheard, but no offers. Hey it was just an idea & I thought I would try something different, sorry I guess it was the printing salesman in me!
I'm thinking I may post a flyer at car wash, store, etc.

Again Good Luck and stay open to new ideas you may have!
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Thanks and again and will do!

memike said:
We all remember this great help thread ramcharger did for us.:cheers:
Thank you Joe, This thread helped folks more then you think, Even the one's not looking for a job :happy10:
http://www.forabodiesonly.com/mopar/showthread.php?t=61958
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I hope it did help some people. :cheers: I've never been out of work this long including my last two years of high school.

pettybludart said:
Things are starting to pickup here in Canada,so I hope it,s a chain reaction for guys in the states!Joe,keep your head up and stick to your guns.Keep applying to every avenue and something will pop up.Good Luck in your search for employment!Can you give the doggies a pat for me?There always there for you!:clock:
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Man, I sure hope it trickles down south. :) Dogs just got a pat from me for you. 8)

Time for me to do my daily 2 mile walk with the dogs. I always feel better after the walk. :)
 
Remember it`s you and 13,999,999 other people going through this now. Things will turn around, keep your chin up.
 
prayers coming your way. Dont lose hope god works in mysterious ways and soon you will be rewarded :cheers::cheers::cheers:
 
Ram, you are going to be fine and will land somethng soon. The man upstairs upstairs is just taking a little more time to make sure your next position will be one where you will be happy and can show off all of your skills. Don't worry - it's coming.
 
It was great to talk with you this morning Joe (even though Billy totally bogarted you -- harumph!)!!! Sending some more positive vibes your way -- something has to break for all of us soon.
 
We are strong in numbers and I thank everyone for there well wishes and prayer, This man has got to have a place to do his thing somewhere.
Keep the faith Joe and stay close to the phone and watch the mail bud.
 
Snake said:
keep pluging away bro PS have you ever thought about strating your own business
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I was thinking the same thing.

I had a buddy with some serious mopar addiction and great mechanical and body talent.
I kept pushing him to start his own business and finally after he could not take any more unemployment, he let me write him up a killer ad in our mopar club publications promoting his sweet skills.

Well, he has been pumping out alot of cool mopar projects among a few brand x'rs as well and the ad has brought him some good word of mouth referrals.
He is currently building a restomodded 1970 340 4 speed 'cuda with all kinds of aftermarket go fast goodies.

Nothing like being your own boss, but it does take alot of sacrifice and marketing to get to the point where the phone keeps ringing.

It also has it's ups and downs, feast and famine but it's very enjoyable to put your own skills to use without someone else making all the money.
 
Ramcharger, here's an idea I had a couple years ago that has worked for me, maybe if your circumstances are in your favor you could try it, and it's Mopar too. I have a friend here who owns a "junkyard" of sorts, actually he inherited his fathers property and it has about 300 cars all scattered about. After asking him about all of the cars back in the woods and realizing that he wasn't going to do anything with them, I proposed that if he let me pick a couple of cars that he didn't want anything to do with, i would start to part them out. My end of the deal was to do the actual work and remove the parts and sell them mostly through ebay and FABO and Moparts, places like that. I would do all the legwork, all of the packaging and shipping, and I would get half of the money and he would get the other half. All he had to do was say yes and it was a done deal. I did a couple of cars, I picked the Mopars first (67-9 cudas) and started with the trim and other easy to remove and sell pieces. In one day, I was able to remove about $800.00 worth of trim, which was $400 a piece. He was happy, I was happy, we both made money and I was working on Mopars. We did a couple cars that way and each made some good money and got a lot of people some hard to come up with parts. Then winter set in and I haven't done any cars this year, but i know the offer is still there for the doing. If you have access to any junkyards in your area that you frequent, maybe you could strike up this kind of deal with them. Just an idea, and your circumstances would have to be right, but it could work out for other items as well. Just trying to help, and if you lived anywhere near me we would be setting this deal up with my buddy, there are still a lot of cars back there that need to be processed. Good luck with finding something, it's out there but in these hard times you just gotta dig a little deeper!!! Geof
 
cosgig said:
Ramcharger, here's an idea I had a couple years ago that has worked for me, maybe if your circumstances are in your favor you could try it, and it's Mopar too. I have a friend here who owns a "junkyard" of sorts, actually he inherited his fathers property and it has about 300 cars all scattered about. After asking him about all of the cars back in the woods and realizing that he wasn't going to do anything with them, I proposed that if he let me pick a couple of cars that he didn't want anything to do with, i would start to part them out. My end of the deal was to do the actual work and remove the parts and sell them mostly through ebay and FABO and Moparts, places like that. I would do all the legwork, all of the packaging and shipping, and I would get half of the money and he would get the other half. All he had to do was say yes and it was a done deal. I did a couple of cars, I picked the Mopars first (67-9 cudas) and started with the trim and other easy to remove and sell pieces. In one day, I was able to remove about $800.00 worth of trim, which was $400 a piece. He was happy, I was happy, we both made money and I was working on Mopars. We did a couple cars that way and each made some good money and got a lot of people some hard to come up with parts. Then winter set in and I haven't done any cars this year, but i know the offer is still there for the doing. If you have access to any junkyards in your area that you frequent, maybe you could strike up this kind of deal with them. Just an idea, and your circumstances would have to be right, but it could work out for other items as well. Just trying to help, and if you lived anywhere near me we would be setting this deal up with my buddy, there are still a lot of cars back there that need to be processed. Good luck with finding something, it's out there but in these hard times you just gotta dig a little deeper!!! Geof
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That's a great idea but unfortunately junk yards are not plentiful, nor are the owners as nice as the one you hooked up with.
I have yet to find a yard owner that would not rather die and let everything rust before they would part with any suggestion of shared ventures with an outside party.
BUT, it would never hurt to test the waters on such a venture.
 
memike said:
Please Listen to the words he has to say! Just for us here in FABO land.
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Thank you Mike, that was great stuff! (Not to be confused with the sealer we know and love, lol). Like SRV in the video, it's very hard for me to ask for help and even harder to accept it.

Please all, I hope you understand that I do not want charity. I take pride in living on next to nothing, odd as it may seem and I'm pretty good at it too, lol. :-D I'm A-OK for now. Unemployment Insurance is a blessing yet it grates my nerves that I have to use it. All of your words of encouragement and prayers are greatly appreciated and I am at a loss of words. Truly, I'm on the verge of some sort of minor eye malfunction, lol. Mike, you are truly a Brother of mine and I can't wait 'till the day that we meet in person.

There are many people here who are in my exact position or worse. They have families and or are running out of benefits. May I please ask that prayers and good wishes go out to all of our unemployed members too? I'm but a grain of sand on the beach in God's eyes and in this country's multitude who are left without any rewarding means of supporting themselves. It's tough out there folks and I most certainly am not the only one who feels like I do.

I haven't thought of any projects around the house and was truly going stir crazy. So this is what I did today:

I fixed the front gate for the third time as the 4x4 posts the landlords helper put in were bowed and twisted. With all the wet weather we've been having they've bowed and twisted another 20%. I can't afford to pop in new posts and the landlord has cut 100 bucks off my rent with the exception that he's no longer doing any improvements, so I had to reframe the wood gate to fit the twisted posts, lol. You cant tell from the finished side without looking very close but It's hilarious from the inside, lol. I should get a picture. I also had to screw the cedar pickets on as "Merlin the Malicious" is popping out the 2" picket nails like they staples.

Called Leanna and Billy and got thier sound card working for now.

Cleaned and mopped the basement floor in the semi-finished area so I can set up a work out area.

2 mile dog walk.

Hosed down, sprayed with 409 and brushed clean a weight bench I got in trade for some landscaping work. It had been sitting outside for 3+ years so it was kinda rough but came out nice.

Picked up the dog crap in the back yard. There is nothing quite so humbling as picking up giant Rottie turds. :-D

Cleaned the house.

Right now I'm waiting for the basement and weight bench to dry and making plans to build a nice bench for the basement for a TV, scanner, radio and other emergency supplies like water, food and candles. I have a buttload of 2x4's the landlord said I can do whatever I please with. :-D

Nothing above cost me so much as dime (minus a few bucks for electricity) but I feel so much more productive. I still have so much to be thankful for, but sometimes I loose track of the fact that I have food, water, shelter and two crazy *** best friends (see pic below, lol) and the support of Mike, my friends here on this forum, and my friends and family. I wish I could I put in to words what all your support means to me. All I can say in conclusion is "THANK YOU ALL AND GOD BLESS YOU ALL!!!".

Sincerely,

Joe (ramcharger)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBnSWJHawQQ
 
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