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Re: The key to your success?
Do you have employees?
I'm doing an 18,000 sq/ft carpet job at nights with 100' long halls we're doing in one piece. So I have some teens working for me. So far they all seem to be doing well. I pay them $80 cash for any night 8 hours or less. And since I'm paying the taxes, it cost me about $100 for each helper every night. The one kid that just turned 16 put a Marshall half stack on layaway a couple weeks ago, we'll be picking it up tomarrow. He's pretty excited about it. He has a tiny crate he's upgrading from. He'd never be able to get an amp if he wasn't working for me. I'm buying him a tuner pedal as a bonus! I certainly don't want him playing through a Marshal out of tune. I give him lessons too. My 14yo daughter is hanging the baseboard. Theres about 3000 ft and she's done 800 ft in 3 nights. It pays $1/ft. She's darn good at it too. It's great to see these teens working their butts off so they can make some cash. And I'm thankful to have the opportunity to work them. As long as they work nonstop, do everything I need done, do it right and don't whine for one second, they get to come back. I had to let one guy go because he scratched my $32K truck with a piece of carpet. Some people have half a brain. And I have absolutley zero patience and tolorance for that. Stupid mistakes in my line of work can be dangerous and very expensive. Thankfully my kids have been going to work with me since they were quite young. My daughters can work any guy into the ground. Which is great, because anyone interested in marrying them will have to be darn hard workers. My son, I used to think we'd steer toward being a doctor. But that seems like a bad idea these days. I'm now pushing him to learn to install flooring. It not all that hard, you work for yourself, make pretty good money, and it keeps you active.
Last edited by Darin; 05-02-2008 at 06:01 PM.
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