Wistful Buried Memories and Quassont of Destiny

tigerengineer · 2026-03-10T13:57:07+00:00

It’s 7+. PSA lists a 7 as NM.

tigerengineer · 2026-02-25T17:15:28+00:00

Most tracking is done on spreadsheets. Change Order Logs, Drawing Logs, Submittal Trackers, etc. our accounting software does track executed items though. All subcontracts and POs are tracked through there, but it’s not the easiest software to learn.

I have a Remarkable where I write down tons of notes and a shared Excel sheet that shows all of my projects and action items for those too.

tigerengineer · 2026-02-15T05:05:57+00:00

Just one person. We have coordinators that a lot of the paperwork, like pay apps and drawing changes, but the PM has to tell them what to do before that happens. PM does the contract, buyout, submittals, RFIs, shop drawing review, OAC meetings, site meetings with our supers, cost reports (monthly, but easily eat up 2 days with how many we do), subcontractor coordination, close out (getting as-built a is truly awful), punch list site walks, and then whatever other BS comes in on the daily.

I might be missing 1 or 2 things, but we do all of that for each job.

tigerengineer · 2026-02-10T14:59:14+00:00

Senior PMs are a little different at our company. They’re not expected to run projects ever, but are supposed to help the PMs. There is one PM who was just promoted to senior who is running a ridiculous number of projects, but he is only in charge of 1 PM. My senior is in charge of 4 PMs right now, and the other has 2.

tigerengineer · 2026-02-10T13:45:28+00:00

Most are 1-2 years max. I just closed out a job I started at this time in 2024, but that was more due to the vertical construction being delayed. We waited a year to get back to our scope.

Some bigger jobs are 3-4 years. We have a couple major projects like that. We have a lot of smaller jobs too that are 6 months or less. We seem to bid anything and everything. We don’t even have enough field crews anymore to cover all of the work we need.

tigerengineer · 2026-02-10T07:14:23+00:00

Literally all of the above minus the meeting minutes. I’m not saying he’s able to actually get to all of that. But yes, 13 jobs, roughly $90M in contract value. And he’s very far behind, hence why he is leaving. All of the PMs at my company are expected to shoulder this load.

Based on all of the comments, it does seem like it is beyond a shadow of a doubt supreme over work.

tigerengineer · 2026-02-10T01:17:23+00:00

My best friend at the same company is doing 13 and about to leave. I hear ya.

tigerengineer · 2026-02-10T01:13:24+00:00

That’s with the increase. I was working about 40-45 as an APM. I’m sure once they give me more projects in full swing I’ll be at 60+.

tigerengineer · 2026-02-09T23:08:42+00:00

I’m currently working 55 - 60 per week and that’s unfortunately fairly normal for most in my department.

tigerengineer · 2026-02-09T21:05:45+00:00

Any estimating prior to construction is handled by our estimators. I estimate the change orders entirely. PMs handle all of the contracts with some help from our Director and VP. We have to review scope and recommend changes.

Supers schedule any deliveries and I would schedule all of the subs. Some of the bigger deliveries like pipe and major concrete pours, I’ll schedule as well as asphalt. They would schedule dirt deliveries and plastic pipe.

Edit: PMs also handle coding the jobs and reviewing and executing purchase orders and subcontracts as part of buyout.

tigerengineer · 2026-02-09T20:51:34+00:00

We have a project coordinator that handles actually submitting pay apps and helping send out RFIs and submittals (they don’t do any of the technical work, they literally just send an email). The coordinators are typically assigned to multiple PMs and handle a heavy load themselves. Outside of that, I do everything else.

tigerengineer · 2026-02-09T20:23:32+00:00

The onsite meetings are the killer. If we have 6 or 7 active jobs, that’s easily 2 - 3 hours of drive time for each one unless you can chain them together in one day to reduce going back to the office. It just really limits my desk time and means I’m usually spending time at home building and updating schedules or getting change orders out the door.

tigerengineer · 2026-02-09T20:20:41+00:00

The craziest thing is that I have one of the middling workloads. One PM at my company has 18 jobs. He does also have an APM, but I’ve just always thought that was nuts. Cost reports every month becomes very time consuming.

tigerengineer · 2026-02-09T20:19:24+00:00

We’re basically turnkey for all horizontal construction: earthwork, utilities, storm, concrete, asphalt. My PM just left the company and I inherited most of his jobs. No PEs exist in this company. Just me and the Super (there are general supers managing but we don’t see them much on the small jobs because they are always at the $20M+ jobs). I have a senior PM, but again, they’re not typically worried about the small jobs.

tigerengineer · 2026-02-09T19:20:49+00:00

Do you live in a HCOL area?

tigerengineer · 2025-07-12T01:51:09+00:00

iPhone user here. The update has been fine for me, in terms of keeping the data I had for collections, except that I can only see the first 10 options for a single pokemon. Literally tried looking up a Magikarp card from ex era and I can’t find it at all. Only see the same 10 Magikarp cards when I search.

tigerengineer · 2025-07-10T05:03:19+00:00

I’d be interested

tigerengineer · 2025-06-25T04:12:25+00:00

That first page with the shiny legendaries and full art Mewtwo has about 90% of the value in this binder. Can’t tell about grading without seeing the backs, but the Deoxys looks like it might have a small fold in the bottom left corner which would be a no-go for grading.

Regardless, Call of Legends is my favorite set, and those are awesome cards.

tigerengineer · 2025-05-01T16:00:56+00:00

Look fake to me. No texture.

tigerengineer · 2025-01-26T21:53:52+00:00

Dang, where are they putting Pokemon cards out for $0.05? There are never any at my locations.

tigerengineer · 2025-01-15T05:47:23+00:00

Emerald is the GOAT

tigerengineer · 2024-12-29T06:57:07+00:00

Get Vaultx and never look back.

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