I think he is succeeding ......

Now wait a minute... how did my quote of Justin suddenly turn into "dressed like a girl" ? Weird. Are the moderators playing tricks on us? Or was it my oversight?

justin_o_guy2 wrote on 08/08/16 at 09:30:53:



Good advice.

I may have taken your words the wrong way about being dressed. At first I thought you meant dressing up and looking "professional" like wearing a polo shirt or something. Not only is that less than practical or appropriate in this instance, the concept itself irritates me. I guess I'm increasingly turning into a redneck or something.

So far, none of the bike shops want me. They have other people laid off waiting to be hired ahead of me or similar situations where there are too many people. They don't want my volunteer work either. I just take away from the other's incentives, or they'd rather have my money than my labor. Just one thing or another. Interesting when you're not worthy to sweep floors... not even for free.

My neighbor is willing to let me help him out. We'll see if this machinist he deals with will do the same. Maybe I can learn something.

Cheap said
I wonder, though... So many people are stuck on minimum wage and other low incomes, but these professionals think they have to have awful amounts of money or they'll go broke, even if their stuff is paid for and their overhead low. And they can't stand it if they don't get that much. What, is it that they feel they can make more money somewhere else? They can't imagine making minimum wage at their own business? Pride?Many poor people would be happy to get $10 an hour, much less $45 or more. Now $45 isn't too bad for a basic mechanic. It's probably the going rate. Don't know what the machinist charges. If he goes wanting $75-$100 an hour and ends up playing around till he asks hundreds This stingy little stinker ain't gonna be happy. Angry If a fellow is good at something and want's that much for his services, he must not enjoy doing it that much.

Translation
I'm poor so I should pay less
or
He shouldn't charge me as much because i'm poor
which leads to
He has more than me, he should lose some of what he has, so I can have some of it
the very foundation of socialism
get it?
I've been poor my whole life, and will be till i die, and that sucks, but I'm where I am because I'm there, no one else gets credit or blame for that. my attorney friend doesn't owe me free legal advice because his house cost 20x (at least) my yearly salary, the guy that's gonna check me and hook up my electrical doesn't owe me a discount on his services
Life is what it is
If you can't earn more, spend less
but don't be so hardheaded you crappity smack your nuts up, take it to a pro to correct your ham fisted errors, and expect him to give you a break, skill costs, one way or the other, you're leaning by experience what he paid thousands of dollars to learn

After looking at a random video of what appears to be someone taking a plasma cutter to various things, it just crossed my mind that we have a new, never used plasma cutter, and I wonder if I could have cut out that bolt or easy-out with that. Sure would have been better than Dad with the torch, right?

This whole situation is totally nuts, right?

BINGO!