Posted on 06/03/2022 8:41:18 PM PDT by max americana
From the Handyman channel on youtube. 2 years old but a good one. First 5 minutes, he "installs" a smoke detector and makes $125. Hard work right? ;)
2nd "work" he has to swipe a sink garbage disposal. According to a handyman dude I know of, Handyman is correct..there mostly is a rat or disgusting underneath there LOL
“If the women don’t find you handsome, they might as well find you handy! (Or something like that).”
I’m quite sure that if a woman had to choose between a less than handsome but very handy man vs a handsome man who couldn’t change a light bulb, the woman would pick the uglier handy man.
What trumps either attribute is the size of his wallet.
Mr. GG2 makes all the money he wants doing small repairs. He turns business away.
Oh it started long before Bush. It was going strong in the late 70s when I was in elementary school and the teachers would go on their monthly diatribe “you need to study and stay in school or else you’ll wind up a ditch digger”. By the 70s the trades were something you were supposed to avoid and we spent a lot of time beating that idea into our kids. Even though they’re pretty useful.
I have been using HomeAdvisor for years with no problems. They prescreen their handyman/contractors and most are licensed and bonded. It is free, simple to use, and they quickly send you a list of handyman/contractors in your area for you to contact on your own.
I gave them a Yelp! rating of 5.0 as do most. I still use a couple that are courteous, prompt, and know their stuff. HomeAdvisor is national. Their site is also easier to use then Angies List, unless they have changed since merging with HomeAdvisor.
Many smoke detectors are up high if in a vaulted ceiling that can't be reached by a regular garage ladder. That's why the $125. Lower detectors can be changed out just by standing on a stool or chair. Its usually the intermittent beeping that tells you the 9v battery needs replacement which is the problem in most cases.
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Handyman will be a great career for an enterprising young man. So many college grads, single mothers, cat ladies don’t know anything about the real world. They don’t have a clue how to install a towel rack. And with the gen x angry lonely women living alone there are going to be millions of them needed someone to do actual work around their apartments. Of course the gooberment will screw it up requiring some ridiculous licensing requirements but it would still be a good opportunity.
I have seen industry making huge contributions lately to high schools. Haas CNC, Mastercam, Solidworks, Miller welding, Lincoln welding, Snapon, have made huge donations of hardware and software to the local high school here. The kids would be hired right off the bat. Sadly, the whole program was shut down for muh covid, and will not recover for another four years. I was hoping for some entry level machinists. I talked to the instructor. He said the kids returning are so lazy, maladjusted, and traumatized from two years of isolation he is very worried. He use to have classes full of eager students who loved going in and welding up firepits or running the lathe. No longer. Hopefully the school doesn’t scrap the program. We need techs and the jobs are well paying.
Most of us do fine learning a trade. My brother makes $200K a year as chief engineer in the HVAC industry on just a high school education and the Navy. I do about as well as a VP of Technical Services in which I spent much of my career fixing things that broke. A job that is best learned with on-the-job experience and maybe a little basic electronics you can learn in a trade school for a fraction of college cost. Like my brother, I served four years in the military and I got basic electronics and an MOS fixing radios. After discharge, I quickly out-earned most of my high school classmates who went on to college with practically useless degrees in liberal arts, communications, business administration, etc.
Everybody can get a well-rounded education for free. Just go to your public library and check out 4 or 5 books a week, mostly from the non-fiction sections. You don't have to read them all the way through. Just read what interests you and you will greatly expand your range of knowledge and eventually be better educated than most college graduates as the majority of them just cram for the work assigned so they can pass and quickly forget everything they were taught. And they PAID for that!
With all the money Biden is burning it bet they all go on a once and need replacement often.
“As cars get smarter the mechanics get dumber and repair bills get higher.”
Scotty Kilmer narrated that story about his German neighbor who fixed BMWs’ for 30 years in Houston but they made it so complicated every 5 years he was too old to go school to learn so he just retired..
” Its usually the intermittent beeping that tells you the 9v battery needs replacement which is the problem in most cases.”
I learned that the hard way many years ago, and that’s mostly the first issue that needs to be solved: buy a new battery
“Today my ex told me she’s having a bathroom remodeling job done.”
I “know” it’s around $1600 to start here in L.A. Our production set guy used to do remodeling and got tired of the customers breathing on his neck every day, and lowballing him. I get asked all the time about bathroom remodeling and just give the dude’s phone # but he rarely takes them unless you hit his price.
that’s all on Monty. Ike gave him the responsibility (after being pestered for months) and he screwed it up.
FACT: Right after the fiasco when the allies have their routine general’s meeting, Monty did not purposely show up and sent his subordinate instead because he knew he was embarrassed after all that pushing to be the op commander that would have “won the war before Christmas”.
You sound like a great parent. Us brothers and sisters were all independent since we were 10. We grew up middle class so after I graduated from HS I never dared ask my parents for money.
It got to a point when I graduated at Stanford my Mom kept asking me why I never asked them for money, and she thought I was a drug dealer at college LOL. Had a half scholarship and worked part time jobs. If you’re 30 and you still ask mom and dad for money, you’re a pathetic loser.
I’m not that great of a dad. I’m just sat back today and watched two guys literally push two of my kids out of an airplane today at 10,000 feet and I let them.
Then another guy pushed me out. After a minute or two of freefall, the parachute inflated.
As a Boomer, I grew up knowing about auto mechanics and simple fixes for home problems. When my first smoke detector started with its intermittent beeping, I figured right off it was a low battery warning. A lot of electrical gizzmos do that or a flashing light.
Without their parents at home or their custodians in school, Millennials and Gen-Z would stumble around in the dark if a circuit breaker tripped. Most are metro-males and wouldn't get why a heavy item they hung on the wall fell out of the drywall. Think studs (yes, pun).
Agreed. Ex-BIL was an amazing carpenter but between reliability and drinking, you couldn’t count on him.
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