I am a union painter. What do you do or hope to do. Do you wish you were doing something else? Do you enjoy what you do?

I like my job sometimes. The union is not very strong in Georgia and is under attack across the country but we still have a small share of the market and so I spend some time each year at the unemployment office. I could keep working if I could travel for work but that is not always easy with a family.

i-baster wrote:
I work in security and in my spare time deliver chinese take aways. All shitty minimum wage jobs but untill i get something better got no choice .

i-baster wrote:
You paint unions?

jhado wrote: Wedding portrait artist?

Maybe he has a contract to paint the legs of strikebreakers.

He'd of had a hell of a job painting the miners-strike then...

..."Look, can you ALL stand still for a few hours!"

Drive 80 miles round trip to work part time.

Coco wrote:
That's shit, a loong way. Didn't you say it was a dodgy road too?

Can't your dad up your pocket-money?

jhado wrote:
It sure is a long way, but I don't want to free load off my folks, so I work and pay them.

Anyway, Temple, TX is just barely not so close, yet close enough, to Ft Hood to offer.....a bit of color (not much), a bit of intellect (some), with just enough overall business failure to make me hang on long enough until my job closes up to collect unemployment.

Meanwhile, I don't oft purchase new clothes or shoes, which allowable at a cheap,part time job; drive a 21 year old truck that I'm sick of people criticizing, and contribute to my parents' bills while saving some money after paying for crappy, rural internet, health insurance, dental, the water bill, partial electric, partial grocery BS holiday and birthday gifts (an obligation) to keep the peace at home and at the office (mostly for my mind's sake).

My dad (and legally, on paper, my mother) provide a roof and food for me, I just contribute; and that's a lot better then some folks have it.


I've got a feeling that this time when the last man in the family dies, he'll have forgotten to update any documents, if I know my father.

Eh, that's a roof and food for the immediate for ya. The reality is, family is under no legal obligation to bequeath anything to children and so, by default, all is bequeathed to the wife, and from there????

Dad got shorted by his family ; that's the way the ball rolls. Every dollar from retirement, insurance, social security will goto Mother; I should have found a husband I could tolerate.....won't get any dolls, quilts or a sewing machine out of the deal this time as when my grand mother passed - couldn't sell any of it so it all went to a charity shop (Goodwill).

My father has no sons or male descendants, so I guess Mom will inherit the guns and property and what she doesn't do with them is up to her. I will wind up taking care of her as is my duty and was my duty to care for elder relations, but not their duty because they had to work to provide and teach me responsibility.

Odd.

I also had to represent my husband at family functions while he went to the bars and hunting and fishing during fortuitous times.

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I have some small biz customers too though who I support remotely with monthly or annual support contracts in the main with the occasional visit because I have 2 big customers who I'm on site with most of the time incl some staff in the US and a WAN link over ipsec vpn using the fortigate firewalls they have. I've been doing this on a self employed basis for about 5 or 6 years now.

My role is that of country bumpkin

I just stand on a street corner and strut my stuff..

I'm afraid I don't do anything for money at the moment as my health has been pretty awful over the past few years. In my time though I have done secretarial and reception work, which was dull but put food on the table! My OH, up until yesterday, was a Civil Servant for 40 years!! He deserves a bit of a rest, lol!

If I had my time over again and was unfettered by illness the careers which appeal to me most are writing, nursing, archaeology or maybe even the Church.

Mandy

feather wrote:
lolz Not quite on either count although I have painted my union hall before and the training facility.

I mostly do industrial painting. sandblasting etc The main difference being that I get health insurance and a pension on top of earning more than a non union painter who usually gets about half what I get when you factor the entire package in. Being in a Union is very important these days and more people should join one.

Sometimes I sell build-it-yourself hovercraft kits...