Some of you may have noticed, maybe not, that I haven't been on as much as I used to be.
Well, I basically wasn't making any money and split ways with previous employer. I was working at a BMW-Volvo-MB salvage yard/repair shop. Now I'm back working construction as a Journeyman Ironworker/Rigger for a company called JV Industrial. Some of you guys from the Houston area may have heard of them. This is a HUGE increase in pay and my overtime is DOUBLE time, instead of the normal time and a half. I'm working at DOW Chemicals getting the Chlorine plant ready for the 45 day turn around in October.
Right now we are working 4 days a week, 10 hours a day (actually getting like 12 hours a day due to having to come in early with my foreman). Once the turn around start in October I am going to be scarce. I may post once or twice during that time. We will be going to 7 12's once that happens. That means 40 hours of normal pay and 44 hours of double time. I figure I should end up with about 3500, before taxes, one each pay check each week.
But on to the rain out. We got rained out last Tuesday at like 2:30 in the afternoon. We got rained out again today, luckily it was early in the morning. That means instead of being off on Friday, we get to go in. But, the trade off is that we will be able to pick up a little bit of extra overtime. :D
Normally, here in Louisiana, during the summer months it rains nearly every single day. But normally it is in the later half of the afternoon or early in the morning.
The only bad thing about this new job, is that I am having to wake up at like 3 in the morning. Then I have to be at my foreman's house by like 4 to get to work by around 4:45-5:00. We get off at 4:15-4:30 which is the perfect time, to get stuck in afternoon traffic. I had to add an additional electric fan (between the motor and radiator) to help cope with the heat and the stop and go traffic. Normally the outside temp sensor shows anywhere from 96*F to, the highest I have seen, about 115*F. Couple that with anything between 50-90% humidity, and you have a hot, sticky afternoon.
/rant
Well, I basically wasn't making any money and split ways with previous employer. I was working at a BMW-Volvo-MB salvage yard/repair shop. Now I'm back working construction as a Journeyman Ironworker/Rigger for a company called JV Industrial. Some of you guys from the Houston area may have heard of them. This is a HUGE increase in pay and my overtime is DOUBLE time, instead of the normal time and a half. I'm working at DOW Chemicals getting the Chlorine plant ready for the 45 day turn around in October.
Right now we are working 4 days a week, 10 hours a day (actually getting like 12 hours a day due to having to come in early with my foreman). Once the turn around start in October I am going to be scarce. I may post once or twice during that time. We will be going to 7 12's once that happens. That means 40 hours of normal pay and 44 hours of double time. I figure I should end up with about 3500, before taxes, one each pay check each week.
But on to the rain out. We got rained out last Tuesday at like 2:30 in the afternoon. We got rained out again today, luckily it was early in the morning. That means instead of being off on Friday, we get to go in. But, the trade off is that we will be able to pick up a little bit of extra overtime. :D
Normally, here in Louisiana, during the summer months it rains nearly every single day. But normally it is in the later half of the afternoon or early in the morning.
The only bad thing about this new job, is that I am having to wake up at like 3 in the morning. Then I have to be at my foreman's house by like 4 to get to work by around 4:45-5:00. We get off at 4:15-4:30 which is the perfect time, to get stuck in afternoon traffic. I had to add an additional electric fan (between the motor and radiator) to help cope with the heat and the stop and go traffic. Normally the outside temp sensor shows anywhere from 96*F to, the highest I have seen, about 115*F. Couple that with anything between 50-90% humidity, and you have a hot, sticky afternoon.
/rant
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