Been laid off for 4 months and got called back to work a 2 year hospital construction job this week! Been operating my own pressure washing business all Summer to make ends meet, but it didn't leave any extra for trains. (did pretty good for my year in business!) Now I'll have a steady check again + the pressure washing on the side. Just in time for the cooler weather and train shows!
HAPPY, HAPPY, JOY, JOY!!!
Big congratulations!! I hope you have a good jobsituation now with the possibility to endulge yourself in all things model railroading!
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That is good news, loathar. I suppose with the recession of the past eight months, it could not have been a very rosy time for you. It is good to read of good news here now and then.
-Crandell
Thanks Crandell! I was doing really good with the pressure washing till July 4th weekend. After that, business just died. The economy is picking up around here. I got a lot of good experience my first year in business. I've figured out how to target the right markets now. I know next year will be even better!It's still nice to have steady income to fall back on when your just starting out.
Now where on Earth did I put my Walthers wish list???
Loathar:
My congratulations. I MEAN it!
Just started back myself, after a year off of 'retirement' (getting a leg rebuilt) from teaching. I'm already hitting the 'brass consignment' section at Caboose Hobbies in Denver in anticipation of my checks.
It's gonna be FUN! Glad you're back among the employed! Things are only supposed to get better.
Tom
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
Loathar, thanks for sharing your good news. Hopefully, by the time that hospital is built the rest of the construction industry will have climbed out of the crater it's in now.
Or you might end up having to franchise your pressure washing business to wannabe entrepeneurs all over the country.
Either way, congratulations.
Chuck (Fully retired and modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
Loathar,
Congrats on that new job - I know exactly how it feels to struggle making ends meet. No job in sight for me, so I will remain "involuntarily" retired, i.e. waiting for social security to kick in.