If y’all think this is just an ad and nothing else then you need to rewatch it 😂 I’m literally giving the best advice I can to help people while also telling them about BoomNation. Find me another creator who makes an ad look like this
we need a skit about how the office staff have no idea what a site even looks like. i got told to "look for a white truck" cuz they didnt know the address/lot number.......... my answer: "its a fricken sea of white trucks, youre gonna need to do better"
😂😂😂😂 I have always been in the office, and I can definitely confirm that what you said is true for most of us. I work for my family's company, so I've made an extra effort to be aware of what is being done out in the field. That's not typical though.
Had an office jock once when working at a railroad job who didn't even know how to apply a handbrake on a locomotive. Like maybe all the stickers and decals woulda been a clue. Proof the world always makes a better idiot no matter how much you try and idiot proof things.
@@englematic that's because we started putting warning labels on things so now all the dumb ones make it to adulthood now. If you need to be told not to use a hair dryer in the bath, then you deserve what happens next.
I just passed my first weld test ever at Owen Steel Monday. I got a job offer today (Wed). The guy who proctored my test told me to my face that when I came in with my own tools, masks and PPE and didn't try to act like I knew everything there is to know about welding (even tho I'm still in welding school for another 9 months), my likelihood of getting hired skyrocketed before I even started welding. They want someone who will tell the truth and actually put forth effort every day
What he was trying to say was that your qualifications and skills are 100% meaningless if they don't like the way you look, carry yourself, and if you are kissing ass is below their standards.
@@jessebott1879 I did Finish work for years and even I had 3-4 square's in my tool bag/ boxes . Not counting the one's I wouldn't loan out of course 😉 same with chisels 😂😂😂
@@jameshill8493 100% disagree with you. I'm all for making weed legal but ain't bout letting operators piss dirty cuz unlike alcohol it's hard to test if someone is currently high aside from visuals ofc or they just smoked up on the weekend. Granted for like 90% of other jobs you should ne able to smoke if you please
@@wokeamerica142 I’m thinking if it gets federal there will be more incentive for people to develop more time accurate tests. Like a “weed breathalyzer”. They have the mouth swabs now but if you chug black coffee and cigarettes you can pass those sometimes
@@josiahtheblacksmith467 where the hell did you come up with that line of shit... why do companies always buy white vehicles.. and NOT blue ones... also for years now... pink is for girl and blue for boy ... what color is a trans baby????? lol anybody know... lmfao
Dear politicians, would you please use your powers to write legislation to ban the federal and state income tax on overtime, so that the people that want to work hard to raise their family and get ahead rise up, Sincerely Johnny Taxpayer
Dear Johnny Taxpayer, We don't mind you asking but that dog won't hunt. Someone has to work their asses off so that we can give your money away to people that vote to keep us in power !!!
I've got a better idea. Get rid of income tax altogether. We don't need it. It's anti-freedom and the founding fathers would never have tolerated it. Toss it out and burn it.
@@scallywag1716 this is more about the fact that after a certain point you make less working all that overtime than you would if you just worked a normal shift. I had to work overtime a year ago because of how management didn't schedule enough time for an install. The amount of taxes taken from my 14 hour shifts were downright criminal.
My early skill trade was masonry. I laid brick, block and stone. Love to laid stone as many don't like it. It's easy with the skills. I moved a lot and one time I replace all my masonry tools with brand new tools with my fancy mason tool satchel. Show up to a site that was doing masonry work. Ask for a job, and he just pointed an area to start work. Bring out my brand new tools and I see the rolling of his eyes as thinking I was throwing smoke of my skills I had to him. Started to work and he was hanging over my shoulders for the first 10 minutes and than walk away. Knowing for sure, I knew exactly what I was doing. Got the job and become the leader of the job shortly afterwards.
I've rode a couple jobs out to the end and got hired on at a later job by the guy who was running the one that ended. Word of mouth really does exist. That said, it does help to keep track of what's coming up and thankfully there's always that 4-6 guys who will bail for a just-starting job before the current one ends so you know where to look.
Hey another tip, put on your resume things that you have done that fits a job you are looking at. In 2008 I was working on a job in CT. When my coworker asked the hiring manager why we were the ones he picked (1500 applicants for 75 spots) he said because of tight schedules in the fall in New England he sought out folks that were in the NE, and saw that we had put hiking and kayaking on our resumes under 'other interests' which told him that we were use to cold rainy shitty weather. He specifically turned down a guy from Utah because he was more likely to not be as productive in 30 degree rainy weather because he wasn't used to it. From then on out I always tailored my resume to fit a job. If the job is in the mountains I put down high elevation work I've done, if it's a power line I put down power company projects, or gas line work for gas companies. In short those that hire you want to know that the person they hire is the best fit. That said this advice is good for good times great for bad times. Right now where it's easy to get work. Work on projects that broadens your experience so when work is tight again you can roll up with the experience to fit a certain gig.
This is great advice. I used to be a massage therapist and when I put it on an office job resume they asked me about it, we did so much paperwork, wrote legal documents, and medical letters that it just needed to be explained and it was obvious. They loved that I had related but radically different experience, they used to run ideas past me just to get my perspective
@@BouncingTribbles Ironically enough my currently office job wife is currently in school to become a licensed massage therapist to get out of the office!
Face to face is absolutely the best way! Not texting not a phone call but in person! Definitely dress for the job you want. Those are my top 2 never fails!
Many union offices are a bit more complicated then just showing up but I went from recently unemployed trucker, to on my first job site in under two weeks and now I can finally say I love what I do.
@@jameshill8493. Thank you and good luck to you as well. Arborist and tree fellers make a good living once they have some experience, I hope you can enjoy it.
100% behind Roscoe on this one, a few years ago my job was in limbo, my company was leaving and the new one coming in was iffy about hiring us. I talked to the people and companies I had worked with during the job and they were chopping at the bit to hire me because of the work ethic, attitude, and capability I showed during that contract. I eventually got hired on by that new company but the support and offers I received still blow me away to this day
I've worked as a fabricator for years I love having a welder in my hands I've gotten plenty of jobs over the years by just walking in asking if they are hiring and if I could speak with PM or just a supervisor and after a welding test and discussing my skill set I'm hired. Hell I've actually had it happen back in my early 20's where there's 10 of us taking welding tests at 8 in the morning I get hired and start the same day. I worked for a boiler company for a little while back when I was 25 I just walked in took there welding test foreman and supervisor came through to check out my work, the guy that was the shop foreman had supervisor set up the same material and make the same welds I did and then said with me standing there "this MF can weld better than you" turns to me and asks if I can start today
This has served me well for many years. Go in until they get so tired of seeing you they give you a job. Also don’t be afraid to reach out because there are many times it isn’t what you know but who you know that can get your foot in the door but in that vein be ready to prove you are not wasting anyone’s time and it is worth it for others to put their name out there for you.
If anyone wants to know what happening to vocational work - I will tell you some history. 1960s Government started backing student college loans. 1970s With plenty of $$$ for anyone to go to college -> Colleges started expanding and promoting go to college. Early 1980s School system expanded career education and expanding having Counselors encouraging students to apply to college. 1990s Every parent and child saw their family or parent lose good paying vocational trade non-college jobs. Kids flocked to rapidly expanding colleges. Parents little kids were going to get the office jobs and the kids themselves saw pain of layoffs in their family. College track exploded. No one was campaigning to the kids to get a job in trades. Even great smart hardworking kids were all pushed to college instead of trades. 30 years later there is not enough people in the trades.
They shut down all vocational classes in high schools in the south in the late 80s didn’t help. Not sure if interest dried up or gov cut support to school systems. I’d guess the latter
Parents don't want their kids working manual labor jobs either, my dad always told me if I don't get that piece of paper I'll be digging ditches. But what he didn't tell me was that the guys sitting in an excavator digging ditches were making $35 an hour 🙄
and half the licensed trades people refused to take any apprentices (holding that spot for their kid going to college)...apprenticeships payed so low that minimum wage jobs looked good.... every kid was taught to hold their nose in the air anywhere near blue collar work...... unions became hangouts for golden boys and social status holders children and nobody else was welcome to set foot inside. i have never known a time where i could wander into one and pay to join (forced invite after you get the job only)
Close not everyone in the 1990 pushed there kids to college. half may class either went to working some did got to tech school for stuff other right into the working at factories. The biggest problem was in the 1990 to many high schools that had trade related classes had admin. that was against them and wanted to shut the classes down. My school had a metal working class there shut it down because of everything going to CNC but you have to know how to machine metal in order to program the CNC equipment. Got to know the basic to do the high tech. Anyone can press a button but you have to have knowledge to to be able to program and know how to machine or weld something.
Looks like Ricky ain’t waitin’ on the layoff-he already has a job! Hell, he’s already wearin’ their shirt. Good thinking, Ricky (and, good ad for Boomnation)👍
I love how even a glorified ad read is full of useful advice. I gave it the old thumbs up because even if I never plan to use the app, I appreciate the message.
craigslist will keep you working..it worked for me for a very long time,factory, trucking, medical field i stay working , gotta have a diverse amount of skills in several areas. imy first job was working at a mental institution ..lol then factory work for 24 yrs, then trucking became my interest after divorce, now im finishing up my work years in florida as a caregiver.. lol i make better money then i ever did now and i retire next year on a sailboat.. no worries mate... 1600 a week and i dont have to even get out of the fucking bed if i dont want to..lol work smarter NOT harder
When there was little work in the 70's my dad would follow a concrete truck to the job site, wait until the pour started, then walk on with his trowels. If the crew was short he was working.
My last boss threatened to fire me blah blah blah "shops are hiring EVERYWHERE" so I quit on the spot and had a new job in under 24 hours. The next day he tried to apologize and I flipped it on him saying I'm on my way to my new job to fill out paperwork. I looked destroyed after I told him that.
I’ve always wanted to get into construction. Done a few demo jobs here and there, I know how (and recently been certified) to drive a few forklifts (although not certified for every type I’ve operated before). That hard labor, intense heat, and great pay has always seemed fitting for me. Yet every time I try I’m rejected. Don’t matter how I apply it just never pans out for me. On one hand I’ve done warehouse work, yard work, unloading freight, big item stocking and storage, hell I’ve worked in a dry cleaning shop with the heat and pace for two years straight. It just never pans out for me… out of all three I’m twenty-eight and more like Roscoe (at least on the job).
Apps are good. They’ve never let me down. There’s a lot of work around at the moment so as Boss says, go talk to the guys on site and look like you take your job seriously! Over the past two years, I’ve had no trouble going from one job to the next.
Retired Union Elevator Mechanic here.. 32 yrs.. Loved my Career.. enjoying da fruits of my labor from all those days on high Rise bldgs.. why do i remember the COLD days way more than the HOT ones? 🤣🤣
haha I was a residential carpenter who wears shorts and sneakers for 5 years. I applied for a job and didn't realize how strict commercial jobs are with PPE. so I left my residential job after work for the interview in shorts and sneakers. they were upset at first because they had to interview me outside the gates with full PPE. I git the job though, and my nickname first couple months was Ricky Shorts 😅🤣 with them for 4 years now
Me and my buddy were homeless and broke riding bikes. We passed a construction site jumped the fence with our bikes. Asked for el hefe until we found the guy speaking English. We starting doing trim work on the spot.
Just left a Sawmill in Queensland, Australia after nearly 26 years, and got my HR TRUCK LICENCE at Easter 2022.( USA CDL Rigid equivalent). I'm a 48y.o. male I went through an online application & and shotguned my resume to 12+ companies over a fortnight & I'm starting as a totally Green Driver after 15 minutes into the interview process, with the State Manager of a Tier 1 or 2 National transport company in Australia. I'll have a pathway to a Semi-trailer (Tractor-Trailer) and Australian Roadtrain Driver with my new Employment, and a backup as a Freight Forklift path at the same company. It helps to have a Forklift certificate as well as a backup plan.
If you don't have a trade, a lot of trucking companies will pay for you to get your CDL. Only catch is you usually have to work for them for a set period of time.
"Look the part." A red suit with all the accessories got me offered every job I interviewed for. The blue suit got me the second interview with the floor supervisor, but the red got me the offer...for even the ones I turned down. It never occurred to me that an RN should need great business suits, but my church suits weren't bringing me ANY offers. So, There ya go...an outfit I would NEVER be wearing to work (even if I made floor supervisor) was needed to get offers🤷🤔. I'm not sure WHAT part I was looking exactly.
I miss the days of paper applications, walking in a building talking to an owner, super, GF, or god forbid HR. Hell even walking onto a site like the boss said. Now days it's just different, there are little outfits out there that'll talk to a walk in, but any bigger outfit wants you to complete their 137 page algorithmic application before they even consider talking to you.
If your work in the trades and want to get into industrial electric/mechanic/welders contracts around America, apply to SkillWork and tell them Andrew Ament sent you. They have plenty of facilities if you're willing to travel and if you like the place you go, you can be hired on by them. Most contracts start at $25/hr plus per diem and mileage reimbursement for travel there and home.
