- Thread starter DeltaRed
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Anonymous-0
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Dang it Steve! To bad your not closer, you could come and help me out. Pretty sure you would feel right at home 
Steve it is not all bad. Personally I have worked for other people off and on most of my life. If you have to take a job to make ends met then your have too. The bigger outfits will usually have some benefits which are important as we are all getting older.
Also look for the smaller businesses around. With your repair skills maybe there is something in that line you can do.
Your location hurts for many job opportunities. It is like much of rural America. Too many low wage jobs that one can't make living doing.
Also look for the smaller businesses around. With your repair skills maybe there is something in that line you can do.
Your location hurts for many job opportunities. It is like much of rural America. Too many low wage jobs that one can't make living doing.
Nebraska Cowman
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I wouldn't do it.
Traditional Farmer
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- Location
- Virginia
MY wife worked at Tractor Supply for a few years
pretty decent insurance back then and all around a pretty decent place to work.Plus if you have animals they'll sell you stuff like broken bags of feed cheap and employees get a 15% discount on everything.A tip if you've never worked a public job the employer is doing you a favor hiring you,you are not doing them a favor working there especially in this day and time.Also as a new hire be ready for working weekends and odd hrs.
pretty decent insurance back then and all around a pretty decent place to work.Plus if you have animals they'll sell you stuff like broken bags of feed cheap and employees get a 15% discount on everything.A tip if you've never worked a public job the employer is doing you a favor hiring you,you are not doing them a favor working there especially in this day and time.Also as a new hire be ready for working weekends and odd hrs.
Been on my own for about 12 years now, at one point had about a dozen employees too. But about a year ago accidentally worked out a part time deal with a local municipality. Was planning to sell them on some consulting work, ended up a part time employee. So far, the best of both worlds. Some steady income, get to keep my company and pick and choose only the good clients/projects, and get something for all those taxes I've paid through the years - some gov't retirement benefits.
As for working for someone else, I just view my boss as a customer.
Anyways - maybe part time is an option for you? Also, check into parks or maintenance at the local level... they usually need good experienced help.
Good luck
Tony
As for working for someone else, I just view my boss as a customer.
Anyways - maybe part time is an option for you? Also, check into parks or maintenance at the local level... they usually need good experienced help.
Good luck
Tony
Anonymous-0
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I starting working for the UO Gueulph,at a local smaller campus. I was hired as the tech for the apprentice training programs. The job description changed with my experience and now am the shop manager/tech for the equipment shop and welding shop. I have been on my own for nearly 30 years. It sure is different but it's great. The pay is good the benefits are good. I just got paid for a stat holiday last month for the first time in 30 years and didn't even have to work to get paid. It is different not to able to just do what you want when you want. They say change is as good as the rest. I'm sure it will work out for the best, just remember your family comes first.so you have to do want it takes. Good luck and have fun.
You can always quit. With employees now days you could be the newest and the most knowledgeable employee they have. Don't take customers long to find the guy that can really help them in a place like that. You could be hearing all over town, get a hold of Red at TSC he can fix you right up with what you need.
mudcreek183
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It's not so bad I work in a factory most of time after high school and farmed also good thing was that I worked third shift no big bosses around to bother you.The one hard thing is if you have been you own boss for years sometimes it hard to have to take orders from someone else had a friend that came to work at Carrier was a little rough for him at first but he stayed 12 years till in closed up and moved to Mexico.
DaninKansas
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Hanging above the doorway in my brother's house:
Behind every successful farmer is a wife that works in town.
Behind every successful farmer is a wife that works in town.
You've got my deepest sympathy. I worked for about the first two years after I got out of high school while I milked cows at home too. I didn't mind my first job,I drove milk truck. I was out on my own,talking to other farmers every day. Actually learned a lot from some of them,most were WWI and WWII generation back then and remembered the depression and all. After the milk plant closed,I had three jobs in a short time. I worked in the potato harvest for a week.That guy and his wife were kind of azzes. Then I went to work for a guy with two Gleaner combines,an F and a G with four row heads and a thousand acres of corn to pick. That was like the milk hauling job,nobody bothering me for the most part. I bagged beans at the elevator that fall too. Worked evenings,Saturdays and rainy days. I felt like I was in PRISON! Watched everybody else come and go and I was stuck there. I vowed that I'd never have a job again as long as I live. The manager was a lazy azz who drank too much and wanted too much from the employees.
About the time corn harvest was winding down and the beans were all bagged a guy walked in the barn while I was milking one morning and asked if I wanted to buy his 12 milk cows? Said he didn't want to go to the barn all winter. So I bought them and that gave me a big enough herd that I haven't had to kiss anybody elses backside since.
About the time corn harvest was winding down and the beans were all bagged a guy walked in the barn while I was milking one morning and asked if I wanted to buy his 12 milk cows? Said he didn't want to go to the barn all winter. So I bought them and that gave me a big enough herd that I haven't had to kiss anybody elses backside since.
Bruce from Can.
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- Location
- Woodville, Ontario, Canada
Lots of luck with that TSC job, you could also try driving truck. Myself, i haven't had a job since I was 20,almost 33 years. Don't no just what I would do,proably milk cows for some Dutchman. Bruce
SweetFeet
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Delta Red,
It may not be that bad... it is a farm store after all, so you will be in your element. And from your posts on YT you seem like a "people person" - you may even find you like it.
At least it seems like it would be a decent, mostly clean job. Our son has still not been approved to go in the Marines... he just started a job where he is running an air grinder for 10 hours a day - that young man comes home DIRTY!!!
Lastly, a song worth listening to (it's worth waiting to get past the the darn ad). Remember to...
Be Grateful
It may not be that bad... it is a farm store after all, so you will be in your element. And from your posts on YT you seem like a "people person" - you may even find you like it.
At least it seems like it would be a decent, mostly clean job. Our son has still not been approved to go in the Marines... he just started a job where he is running an air grinder for 10 hours a day - that young man comes home DIRTY!!!
Lastly, a song worth listening to (it's worth waiting to get past the the darn ad). Remember to...
Be Grateful
Russ from MN
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- Location
- Bemidji MN
I am probably going to drive a sugar beet truck again in the RR valley, I kind of hate to give up the time when hunting and fishing is at it's best, first half of October, but it's kind of an adventure. The wage scale has gone up as there is a skilled labor shortage in MN and ND. Our newspaper has 2 or more pages of help wanted ads.
wilson ind
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worked for my self till health forced my move to dry climate. taught vocational till had to quit permanently School principal stated you are best vocational I have ever met, however you have worked for your self so long you are the worlds worst employee.
4 and 1/2 years ago I lost my job I had for over 20 years. I was nearing 60 at that time and not many places want to hire someone that old. I got a job at Wal-Mart. After 40 years in Manufacturing this was a major change. Far from being the greatest job in the world, but it's a paycheck coming in every 2 weeks, and in my opinion, I would rather be working than getting Welfare.
Anonymous-0
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Don't ever tell them or let them know that you need the job or they will have you where they want you. Just do your job well, kiss no ones butt and carry on as if you can walk anytime you want and always read the help wanted adds. It's a two way street.
ShadetreeRet
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I know you would be a better employee than our local TSC has. They are friendly enough, but if you need assistance you have to wait,---and wait---and wait.
I agree with you; times are hard right now for many people across our country. Personally, my wife and I have had to both work to simply keep food on the table for our two little ones. It's a tough feeling as a man to have to have your wife work to help keep the lights on and the kids fed. But like you, "I would rather be working than getting Welfare". Too many people have lost that mentality in our nation. A big thumbs up to you Big Ruh; you have the right idea!
Anonymous-0
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Despite limited experience milking, I quickly concluded that one substituted kissing someone else's backside to kissing the backside of a manure flecked cow.
Mark - IN.
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I was working with a fella yesterday and we stopped for lunch at a place called Jimmy Johns about the size of a Subway I guess. I was too busy ordering to notice the surroundings, and then too busy eating in the back to do the same. It was when I was leaving that I counted eight people manning the counter to make sandwhiches in an assembly line. Not many customes though. As I was walking out the door I recall thinking, "Well, at least they employ people".
Good luck.
Mark
Good luck.
Mark
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