Looks like I am looking for work again. Ever feel like bad luck just follows you around?
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Looks like I am looking for work again. Ever feel like bad luck just follows you around?
Well shoot and a whole bunch of other bad words, I was afraid of that.
Sorry to hear that. What sort of jobs are you looking for? I think you said
heavy equipment operator. If correct, have you tried for highway companies
doing road work? Seems pretty steady, although I bet winter is the worst
part of the year.
Bill
If it was easy, anybody could do it.
Rail road is always hiring. BNSF to be exact. I know warren buffet owns the thing but the pay is good and the retirement is outstanding. Going through the process myself right now to be an equipment operator on the track maintenance crew. Definitely worth looking into.
The only thing we are afraid of is our own abilities once you get to the point where you don't care about your abilities they become limitless
I've been applying with the county and state Road departments around north dakota and montana. I am willing to do anythint, but I prefer running equipment or turning wrenches.Originally Posted by MtGun44
I'll look into that tomorrow. I gotta find something pretty quick. Work has been slowing down, so I really havn't worked much the last couple weeks. I kept hoping it would get better. I havn't quit, or been laid off yet, but I am one of four guys left out of the 100 or so when I first started. I know the company doesn't have any more jobs laid out, and they made a rule recently where if it's below 0 we don't work, which is bull in this part of the country. It's just a way to blame the weather, instead of the fact that they screwed around and lost all four of our major oil company's we do business with, because they kept screwing up.
OPEC oil prices might have something to do with this as well.
But waste management is another company that may be looking for equipment operators. It's nasty work in the trash but I did it for 5 years and it paid the bills and kept the family fed. This is another company like BNSF that is everywhere and always looking
The BNSF route takes a while I put an application in the first of November and if all my physical and what not go through I will be starting in February. But this is a job where it is possible to make over 200k a year and for young guys like you and me be able to retire in the mid to late 50s with a very nice pension.
The only thing we are afraid of is our own abilities once you get to the point where you don't care about your abilities they become limitless
Bummer! I hope something turns up for you Jr.
If you think your a hammer everything looks like a nail.
I feel for you. Sometimes you have to take anything that will get you thru it.
If you are where you can get a Railroad job it is well worth it. The most effecient transportation system we have, not likely to disappear anytime soon.
Wayne the Shrink
There is no 'right' that requires me to work for you or you to work for me!
I heard just a couple weeks back that there are 700-800 Railroad jobs available and over 400 of those in ND..
My neighbor just got hired by the local Railroad (TCWR), He's a mechanic by trade, now I don't know what he was hired for?
http://tcwr.net/
I believe their main repair facility is in Glencoe. I realize this probably doesn't help you much, BUT... it's an example of the type of places to look. Meaning, don't over look the small rail lines.
Good Luck,
Jon
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"Everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the face!" - Mike Tyson
"Don't let my fears become yours." - Me, talking to my children
That look on your face, when you shift into 6th gear, but it's not there.
Whatever happened to enlisting?
Amanda.
Ahhhh. Say no more. Happy wife=happy life.
I live near the Galesburg Ill. hub. Over 100 trains a day in and out. BNSF puts out apps every other month. Over 100 apply each time but only 10 are hired. Thoes are the ones that pass the drug test. $150,000 - $200,000 EASY on track jobs after the first year or two. Pass the welding test and it goes up. I regret not going there after getting out of the war. Upon retireing spouse gets $1000 a month just for being married to you, no matter her age. Very well looking into Jr.
Jr. The oil business and all forms of construction will always be "Boom or Bust" I fought the hard fight my whole working career and it's always out of work or you need to be triplets. Im soooooo glad to be retired. Good luck my friend GP
If you have experience on heavy equipment you shouldn't have much trouble finding work in Montana or North Dakota, most companies only work spring-fall but you can easily make a year's supply of money in 7-8 months assuming you find a decent position with overtime or doing government road/school/utility work for davis bacon pay.
Northern improvements does a lot of the road work in ND and they pay fixed (high) wages with overtime.
Of course if you work for idiots or incompetents you are always going to suffer no matter how great the local economy is.
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