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sounds like a cool field to be in. I think this kind of work is going to catch on with even more people than just the super wealthy. Even my parents neighbors just dropped about 70k a few years ago on a custom in home entertainment system and they don't make insane money either.Leave a comment:
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Just got a new job
I got a new job today, and I'm pretty damn stoked about it. I'll be working for Premiere Home Systems, a local comany that does home theater and home security installs. 90% of their work is done in multi-million dollar homes, as their products and labor are NOT cheap. We're talking like huge in-home theaters, home networking, wall mount touch screens, security, the works. I'll be starting at a bit less than I make now, but I'll get substantial raises very quickly based on performance, and once I enter the apprenticeship program, I'll also get mandatory raises conditional upon completion of different certifications.
My job that I'm at now (Fuqua Homes) is good, but several things lately have caused me to completely lose faith and interest in the company. Since the housing market has entered a slow down, for about the last 4-5 months, we've been going through periods of partial layoffs, resulting in 2-4 day workweeks, sometimes not working complete weeks at all. We are able to claim partial unemployment, but even with that, I rarely come close to what I would be normally making. On top of that, in the last year, I've been offered and interviewed for 2 promotions, both of which have resulted in nothing happening. I've been given the same runaround both times, being told that "they had to talk to corporate", and "although there isn't something open right now, as soon as it does...", all that shit. And this last time I was promoted from quality control to foreman of 2 crews, I wasn't even given a pay raise.
The bottom line is that when I started working for them 2 years ago, it was made to seem like I could move up very quickly, and I did start to. But within the last year, things have quickly deteriorated and I've lost interest in the company. I have a family to think of, and with this new job, I have to opportunity to make A LOT more money and make a much more promising career from it. With advances in home entertainment technology and entertainment, this is a rapidly growing field with an even faster growing market of people that are willing to spend top-dollar for state of the art entertainment and security.
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