I've been doing construction for the last 6-7 years now. Anything from simple handyman stuff, to entire remodels of bathrooms and kitchens to just about anything else that you can think of.
I love it due to how diverse my jobs range, from flooring to plumbing to windows and patio doors.. you get the picture.
You should come to Texas in a year or 2 and completely redo my house
Tempting to bulldoze it and start over
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I've been doing construction for the last 6-7 years now. Anything from simple handyman stuff, to entire remodels of bathrooms and kitchens to just about anything else that you can think of.
I love it due to how diverse my jobs range, from flooring to plumbing to windows and patio doors.. you get the picture.
Pay is decent, I get to be outside alot of the time, and I get a great workout.
As for my future plans, I haven't really looked all that far into the future.
1. Learn all you can.
2. Start your own company.
3. Move to my area.
4. Make huge profits.
Seriously, the remodeling companies around here are TERRIBLE. They cut corners and act like they didn't mean too. Seriously? BARE WIRING through my walls? Gaping hole behind my microwave to the outside you "forgot" to fill in? Installed my furnace wrong?
Guys are a joke. Thankfully we didn't pay a dime or I'd have a lawsuit against them.
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I love it due to how diverse my jobs range, from flooring to plumbing to windows and patio doors.. you get the picture.
Pay is decent, I get to be outside alot of the time, and I get a great workout.
As for my future plans, I haven't really looked all that far into the future.
Statistics: Posted by Lou — November 14th, 2012, 7:16 pm
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bartoron wrote:
Studying mechanical engineering at college, with hopes of becoming someone with a job.
bartoron That should be everyone's goal
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Eadwulf wrote:
future. Question answered.
Answer to everything
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Statistics: Posted by Eadwulf — November 9th, 2012, 8:08 pm
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I've never heard of ACT scores reaching that far. I have friends who stressed far too much over the ACT and it doesn't go any further than college acceptance. This is the first time I've talked about it since 2008. Some people I know who scored well, much better than I, are college dropouts.
University of Toledo did things so stupid. Foreign students didn't have to reapply at the end of the first four years for the last two years, they were automatically accepted. So you have 400 students fighting for 30 spots (the other 70 went to foreign students).
Now you know why half of the medical world doesn't speak English worth a damn.
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Statistics: Posted by Market Man6 — November 9th, 2012, 11:20 am
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Market you lost me talking about that :p
Burks wrote:
Guys, take your ACT/SAT seriously. If a college tells you "oh your scores are good enough", take it again (if you can afford it) to get a better score. That one extra point may jump you over someone else.
I plan on taking the SAT in January mainly because I can't afford it right now and gives me time to study, which I haven't even looked into it TBH... I will take it again
Dakota Lesmercy wrote:
Finish my Automotive degree at college first, then possibly move to Asia.
Dakota.
Nice
Kainth wrote:
:/ either way I'm going to have to suffer and learn something I am really bad at.
Yeah, I don't look forward to calculus or any science classes. I honestly have no idea how I'm passing this year ( SR in HS ) I'm pretty sure the only class I'm "trying" in is government and I don't even study for the tests... I've always been great in English/writing. Life sucks :p gotta do what you hate to do what you want.
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What did you score on your SAT or ACT or did you take those? gl on getting in
I work at United meh. I need to take my SAT soon :s Blowing off my senior year but still keeping As and Bs.I got a 26 overall on the ACT. 30+ in reading and writing, mid twenties in math, and teens in science. I hated science, and frankly, our science department was awful. I knew what my strengths were, and what my weaknesses were. I never really gave a
in high school, except in English class. This might have been a mistake, but I don't regret a minute of it. I still graduated with something like a 3.2 GPA. Nothing spectacular, but nothing terrible. It was basic economics. Work my dick off for four years plus just to get into what some people would consider a 'better school' or do basically what I wanted to do which was good enough to get into most schools, namely the ones I wanted to attend. For grad school they don't give two
about what went on in high school. They care mostly about your references and your application essay (and writing samples in my case, or art samples, or scientific studies, etc). Less on your grades, extracurriculars, and GRE test scores from college. They want to know who you are and whether or not you will be a success, not what the numbers compiled by government suits are. Burks wrote:
Guys, take your ACT/SAT seriously. If a college tells you "oh your scores are good enough", take it again (if you can afford it) to get a better score. That one extra point may jump you over someone else.
I made the mistake and took the ACT once my junior year, got a 32 and was told by my guidance counselor that was just fine. A 33 would have given me automatic admitance into the Pharm.D. program without having to apply for the final 2 years (you do 4 years undergrad work, then apply for the final 2 years to get your Pharm.D. license).
Because my grades didn't compare to other students (3.8 vs 4.0), and I wasn't "diverse enough" (their words, not mine), I wasn't accepted THREE YEARS in a row.
Words of advice, take them or leave them. That's my $24k loan advice....
I've never heard of ACT scores reaching that far. I have friends who stressed far too much over the ACT and it doesn't go any further than college acceptance. This is the first time I've talked about it since 2008. Some people I know who scored well, much better than I, are college dropouts.
I'm just saying. Do what you want to do. If you're able to decide on your goals and set them in high school, that'll be a powerful tool to decide what you need to do to reach them in the future.
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Market what do you do as a land surveyor?
right now im in the field and my job is to take observations. measure angles, and distances(using a total station) from a known point to calculate the coordinates of a new location. alternatively, if we are not required to be more accurate than a 1/2 inch, then we can use a gps to determine the location.
elevations are also important. we can get rough numbers with gps(1.5 inch accuracy) or total station(1/2inch accuracy) or using a level we can get down to 1/32nd.
often, we are asked to determine boundaries between landowners or create subdivisions. we also can have the coordinates provided for us, and we will show where those coordinates actually are.
later on in life, i will be overseeing the field crews, the drafters(in the office that take the data and create drawings) and calculating staff.
Statistics: Posted by Market Man6 — November 8th, 2012, 11:40 pm
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I made the mistake and took the ACT once my junior year, got a 32 and was told by my guidance counselor that was just fine. A 33 would have given me automatic admitance into the Pharm.D. program without having to apply for the final 2 years (you do 4 years undergrad work, then apply for the final 2 years to get your Pharm.D. license).
Because my grades didn't compare to other students (3.8 vs 4.0), and I wasn't "diverse enough" (their words, not mine), I wasn't accepted THREE YEARS in a row.
Words of advice, take them or leave them. That's my $24k loan advice....
Statistics: Posted by Burks — November 8th, 2012, 5:31 pm
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