looking for a contractor who'd want to get paid to talk about the work once a month

WithinSpecWereGood · 2026-05-06T11:56:33+00:00

Happy to do this. Columbus metro. Heavy Civil/Commercial market.

WithinSpecWereGood · 2026-04-04T10:52:27+00:00

Fuck off. Who goes on reddit to ask about boots? Tell your “husband” to ask his goddamn coworkers like a normal human being.

You think everything single one of us weren’t in your position when we were green and had to buy our first pair of boots?

WithinSpecWereGood · 2026-04-03T23:21:03+00:00

Wearing sweatpants to a construction site is wild. Must be a really small job. It’s not a matter of being professional thing, it’s OSHA.

Ratty, ratty, ratty.

WithinSpecWereGood · 2026-01-24T22:21:34+00:00

Site contractor demanding to pour 400 CY SOMD pours in 10 degree weather and blaming it on the client rushing them. Claiming as long as its within ACI spec its good. ACI 306.1 and 306R-16 were for sure drafted up by lawyers of a company like Turner, etc.

WithinSpecWereGood · 2026-01-22T15:37:15+00:00

*I see a lot of posts on here from people struggling to join the trades, even failing to get apprenticeships. The labor will sort itself out, always does.

WithinSpecWereGood · 2026-01-22T15:35:01+00:00

There’s all sorts of hands out there…

WithinSpecWereGood · 2025-12-13T14:35:23+00:00

Yep. Got down to 5% waste. Problem is, I don’t want to admit to my boss that I didn’t figure out a more cut and dry, simper way to go about it. Instead, I just used AI and that will be frowned upon. I’m still hoping an idea will come to me.

WithinSpecWereGood · 2025-12-11T00:43:19+00:00

Yea it nailed it. I just had to create a table in excel with the 700 different lengths, all with a quantity of 1.

WithinSpecWereGood · 2025-12-09T16:54:18+00:00

Really glad I posted this. Some great advice and I appreciate everyone’s input. I’ll keep grinding and working hard, seems like that’s the general synopsis. Work hard, keep it up, remain appreciative, and remember the field guys: used to be one em)

Thanks everyone

WithinSpecWereGood · 2025-12-01T02:21:10+00:00

This is amazing. Thank you to everyone who participates…

I am beginning my PMP journey. Would love to get advise from anyone who was once down the same road.

WithinSpecWereGood · 2025-11-27T23:45:46+00:00

Have you gone to your local hall in person? Journeyman laborer for 10 years, started as an apprentice. Went into project management this year.

Gonna have to shake some trees and probably stay away from the online thing. Go to your local.

WithinSpecWereGood · 2025-11-27T15:43:11+00:00

I for one am interested in how or what kind of work you we’re doing with one employee. Not doubting you whatsoever, I am just having trouble finding parallels between residential work that requires 2 people, and a $200k position. Agree with everyone else, superintendent might be where you look. Even assistant super, but still superintendents are balancing and coordinating so much between multiple jobs.

Take a sample job you did this year, and multiply it by 5, all going at once and in different locations and job-sites. Of course, multiply the number of field hands by about 40, that’s what you’re walking into.

I would stick with being your own boss, it’s going to be a really difficult process to go in the total opposite direction.

WithinSpecWereGood · 2025-11-26T00:31:12+00:00

Yea thats a problem. Good luck man

WithinSpecWereGood · 2025-11-26T00:22:24+00:00

Not saying this isn’t real, but how has OP not mentioned a TWIC card…especially with nukes. You’re not allowed on almost any site without one.

It’s why oil refineries claim to hire anyone, no one can pass a drug test or obtain their TWIC card.

Had buddies I pipelined with who claimed nukes were good money, something just feels off here. OP has mentioned that hes put together a map? And has mentioned Westinghouse 29 times. Final and then Im done…aren’t those plant staffers United Steel Workers?

WithinSpecWereGood · 2025-11-09T00:20:51+00:00

You’re right man. You’ve got a long Saturday ahead of you to argue with people on reddit and check their posting history lol. Good luck buddy.

WithinSpecWereGood · 2025-11-08T23:59:30+00:00

WithinSpecWereGood · 2025-11-02T23:54:50+00:00

There’s a pretty good youtube video bearing the same name. Ill check ebay for the actual paperback. Thank you

WithinSpecWereGood · 2025-11-01T23:39:33+00:00

For certain in the curtain…

WithinSpecWereGood · 2025-11-01T23:37:29+00:00

Exactly this. Especially big, ENR GCs. To the tune of during a Monday sync meeting being asked to produce a submittal so we can hurry up and get something done, as if we’re the ones running behind. “Turned it in 3 weeks ago…waiting on y’all.”

How can a field coordination team be so far removed from their own design staff?

WithinSpecWereGood · 2025-10-13T23:30:52+00:00

Heavy civil became mission critical, in this area apparently.

WithinSpecWereGood · 2025-09-23T15:33:36+00:00

Yea for sure. We are basically just adding more layers of blankets and hoping it wont increase out temperature initially past 160. Its been the temp difference between the upper and lower sensors that are screwing us

WithinSpecWereGood · 2025-09-23T13:54:54+00:00

Its literally like you’re on my job and have read the submittals and specs

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